Arthur Brand is an art sleuth based in Amsterdam.
His clients ask him to find stolen works of art, and to find out whether a painting or sculpture being sold on the black market is the real thing.
One day, he received an email with an image attached of two gigantic horse sculptures.
The unknown owner of these statues was claiming that they had once belonged to Adolf Hitler and had stood outside his chancellery building in Berlin.
This led Arthur into a murky world of black market art dealers, billionaire collectors, and Neo-Nazis.
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What If Hitler Never Invaded Russia During World War II?
This might be just the ultimate “what-if.”
One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as much as three-quarters of the German army and inflicted two-thirds of German casualties.
So what would have happened if Hitler had not invaded Russia? The dynamics of the Third Reich and Hitler meant that Germany would not remain passive. In fact, it is hard to imagine Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union not at war, though the question is when this would have happened.
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The epigraph of Primo Levi’s last book,
The Drowned and the Saved, is from Coleridge’s poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: “Since then, at an uncertain hour,/ That agony returns,/ And till my ghastly tale is told/ This heart within me burns.” For Levi, the ‘ghastly tale’ that needed to be told was about the horrors of Auschwitz the 76th anniversary of the camp’s liberation was on January 27 and he did it repeatedly, starting with his first book,
If This is a Man.
Through eight chapters in
The Drowned, bookended by a preface and a conclusion, Levi dissects life in the camps (Lagers), stressing on the need for truth and reconciliation in order to learn from the past. Trained as a chemist, Levi was arrested for being a member of the anti-fascist resistance during World War II and deported to Auschwitz. The first news about the Nazi annihilation camps, he writes, began to spread in 1942, this despite the best efforts of the