page_title: Gerald Reitlinger
hierarchical_section_title: Gerald Reitlinger
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Gerald Reitlinger by (John) Christopher Wood, 1926 (Ashmolean Museum, number: WA1978.51)
context_page_description: Gerald Roberts Reitlinger was an art historian, especially of Asian ceramics, and a scholar of historical changes in taste in art and their reflection in art prices. After World War II he wrote three large books about Nazi Germany. He was also a painter and collector, mainly of pottery. Reitlinger's major works were The Final Solution, The SS: Alibi of a Nation, and between 1961–1970 he published The Economics of Taste in three volumes.
context_section_description: Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (born 1900 in London, United Kingdom – died 1978 in St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom) was an art historian, especially of Asian ceramics, and a scholar of historical changes in taste in art and their reflection in art prices.  After World War II he wrote three large books about Nazi Germany.  He was also a painter and collector, mainly of pottery.  Reitlinger's major works were The Final Solution (1953), The SS: Alibi of a Nation (1956), and between  1961–1970 he published The Economics of Taste in three volumes.
caption: Portrait of Gerald Reitlinger by Christopher Wood, 1926, Ashmolean Museum
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