Dimensions
130 x 197 x 21mm
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History.
The Holocaust may be indelibly linked to the German nation, but there was no shortage of accessories after the fact. Wherever on the continent the Axis powers were in control, they systematically plundered property of every kind. Bank accounts were centrally frozen, homes and land confiscated on a massive scale, while priceless artworks were seized from wealthy collectors.
Yet the conduct of the conquerors hid another outrage, a more cynical and in some ways still more disgusting theft. In every occupied territory collaborators and crooks rushed to enrich themselves at the expense of the suffering Jews, while in such "neutral" countries as Switzerland and Portugal distinguished financial firms helped bankroll the depredations of the rampant Reich. No one was exempt from an orgy of looting in which even the Vatican participated, hungry for spoils.
For a generation brought up to regard the Second World War as a triumph of heroic good over evil, Richard Z Chesnoff's book reveals a truth which is altogether more shocking, and more shameful.
