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Word: hrermuseum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2008-2008
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...plundered art masterpieces on their way to Germany. While working in a menial maintenance job, Valland eavesdropped on her Nazi bosses as they catalogued looted Vermeers and Rembrandts, and shipped them off 
 to the private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf Hitler planned but never built in Linz, Austria, near his birthplace. At night, Valland would record the details at home in secret diaries, and warn her comrades in the French Resistance so that Allied bombers would spare these treasure-laden trains bound for Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoils of War: Looted Art | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoils of War: Looted Art | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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