Sacking Aladdin's Cave
Subtitle: plundering Hermann Goering's Nazi war trophies
By: Kenneth D. Alford with Thomas M. Johnson and Mike F. Morris
Contributors: Johnson, Thomas M., 1938-; Morris, Mike F.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atglen, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780764343964
Subjects: Art treasures in war; History; Art thefts; World War, 1939-1945; Destruction and pillage; Art collections; Cultural policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring; title: The 101st Airborne Division; title: Normandy; title: Market Garden; title: Bastogne; title: Germany; title: The 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion; title: The capture of Berchtesgaden; title: The payoff; title: Aladdin's Cave; title: Looting the Reichsmarschall booty; title: The Munich central collection point; title: Reparations; title: Göring objets d'art transferred to the Bavarian government in 1949; title: U.S. Army, war trophies; title: The extraordinary Blue Goose; title: The Hermann Göring wedding sword; title: Hermann Göring's wearing wedding sword.