Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolf Hitler came to power, he used the professional High Command, and its members used him. They had the same aim-war-and the story of their mutual enmity was largely a myth...
...Flensburg rumors said Adolf Hitler had died of a lethal injection given him by his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morrell. Dr. Morrell told newsmen at Berchtesgaden that he had regularly given Hitler glucose and caffeine injections, that Hitler had refused them at the last, but said nothing of killing Hitler...
There are five Rembrandts, the most valuable being a famed portrait of an old man painted in 1660, when Rembrandt took to using a knife blade and brush end instead of the straight brush technique. "I had to buy it in a hurry," Hofer said with a smile, "because Hitler's buyer was also there [in Paris], and he could have outbid...
This seemed to smack of artistic rivalry between Hitler and Göring, and Hofer confirmed the suspicion. But it seems that Göring and Hitler eventually agreed that, since Hitler preferred 19th-Century art, he should have priority on that and Göring could have the rest.* Hitler's collections, according to Hofer, are now hidden in caves somewhere in Germany, and have not been found...
Confiscation & Formality. There were also nice differences between the manner in which Göring and Hitler acquired some of their pieces. Whereas Hitler was in a position to confiscate something "in the name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal methods, with at least a fiction of legality. Göring did get some fine things from the Rothschild collection, such as a portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa by Velasquez, but Hofer insisted that everything taken from the Rothschild collection (which he said was "collected") was later appraised...