Göring’s Man in Paris

The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

By: Jonathan Petropoulos

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world.

Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's special art-looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art collection; and staged 20 private exhibitions of stolen art in Paris's Jeu de Paume museum during the war. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but back in the art-dealing world, offering looted masterpieces to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home.

Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.

©2021 Jonathan Petropoulos (P)2021 Tantor

Excellent narration

This was the first time I listened to a non-fiction book through Audible. I was very impressed with the engrossing nature of the narration. This is a very long and complicated story, but the narrator did a wonderful job. I can’t wait for my next audible book.

Boring!!

I love WW2 history in Europe. I read it often and am usually fascinated. Not this time. I have tried twice to get through this book. It is simply to boring to get out of even chapter 2. I’m sorry I spent money on it.