Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazis kept the 259 paintings in the Führer-bau of Munich for the sole reason of pleasing Hitler whenever he visited the city. When the end came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...
...paintings, 96 were recovered . .. The Jan Steen (Effects of Intemperance) mentioned in your article . . . had been sold to a Munich businessman, a strange character who in two years had risen from nothing to become the foremost buyer of art objects in that city. Upon learning that Military Government was looking for the Jan Steen he hid it in a garage. There, behind a false wall, it was discovered...
...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...
...read dozens of books on housing, hired 20 architects, put them to work on the same drawing boards that once held his aircraft blueprints. Three months ago, the first mass-produced parts of his houses began rolling off the assembly lines. When the buildings were put up in Munich, Germans gaped with joy and wonder. The Messerschmitt houses were almost as ingenious as the Messerschmitt planes...
Foote's actual career as a spy began in Switzerland in October 1938. On his first assignment, he was sent to Munich where he set himself up as an amiable tourist of independent means; his pay and expense money came to $300 (U.S.) a month. This mission consisted largely in lunching at Hitler's favorite restaurant and reporting on the Fuhrer's habits...