MARKT UND MACHT

Writing a history of art dealing in the Third Reich presents a special challenge, not only because of the difficult situation regard ing source material. The actors' activities are enmeshed in outrageous contradictions involving complicity and sabotage. The range o f issues includes the day-to-day business of art dealers through to the resistance to restrictive regulations, from auction trade th rough to black market, from numerous crimes involving not only Jewish collectors and dealers, through to art theft in countries occu pied by ...[Read more]