Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures Audiobook (Free)

The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 for the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a guy who hardly ever was-he didn’t have a bank account, never paid taxes, never received social security. He merely did not exist. He had been hard-wired right into a existence of shadows and secrecy by his very own father long before he previously inherited his art about Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures collection constructed on the spoliation of museums and Jews during Hitler’s Third Reich. The ensuing press frenzy unleashed worldwide calls for restitution, unsettled worldwide relations, and rocked the artwork world.

Susan Ronald reveals in this stranger-than-fiction-tale how Hildebrand Gurlitt succeeded in looting in the name of the Third Reich, duping the Monuments Guys as well as the Nazis alike. As an ‘public seller’ for Hitler and Goebbels, Hildebrand Gurlitt became among the Third Reich’s most prolific artwork looters. Yet he stole from Hitler too, allegedly to save lots of modern artwork. Hitler’s Artwork Thief is the untold story of Hildebrand Gurlitt, who stole more than art-he stole lives, as well.