The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis'
greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and
drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie
about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have
brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery
was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards,
ordinary Parisian Jews—mostly poor families and recent immigrants
from Eastern Europe—were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings,
but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the
Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was
implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an
album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz.
Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the
staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing
witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial
information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to
grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation
between greed and mass destruction.
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