America’s National Archive Gets Nazi Loot Records

“The two worn leather-bound volumes, described as No. 6 and 8 of nearly 100 such albums compiled by the Third Reich, are filled with pictures of mostly 18th-century French art. They join 39 similar albums that are already at the National Archives. The material, which was used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials after the war, was amassed by the Third Reich’s Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg unit. That group was assigned at Hitler’s behest to appropriate ‘ownerless’ art collected by prosperous Jews in France and transport much of it to Germany.”