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Hitler's Horses by Arthur Brand, review: a shadowy tale of neo-Nazis and weird statues


Josef Thorak s horses are recovered from their hiding-place in 2015
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In the Thirties, Adolf Hitler commissioned his favourite artists, such as Josef Thorak, Arno Breker and Fritz Klimsch, to produce a number of huge bronze sculptures that depicted German power and mastery. They included Thorak’s Schreitende Pferde (“Striding Horses”), two 10ft tall equine statues that were placed on either side of the steps to the garden at the rear of Hitler’s Chancellery in Berlin. “Whenever he stared outside,” writes Arthur Brand, “hatching plans to conquer the world, his view would include Thorak’s horses.”
Brand, an art detective from Amsterdam, believed (like the rest of the art world) that the horses had been destroyed in the Battle for Berlin at the end of the Second World War. Until, that is, he was shown a colour photo of them by a shadowy former art fraudster who had been asked to facilitate their sale. Thus began Brand’s quest for the truth: ....

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