Word: neuschwanstein
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Army's Lieut. James J. Rorimer (curator-on-leave of Medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum) found himself sitting on one of the most mountainous heaps of stolen masterpieces known to history. Part of the intended contents of the two projected Nazi museums, the loot was stored in Neuschwanstein Castle, an elaborate retreat built by mad King Ludwig in the wooded hills of southern Bavaria...
...Neuschwanstein catalogs listed 21,000 items, including choice canvases by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Fragonard, Boucher, Veronese; boxes of exquisite Renaissance jewelry, fine Tanagra figurines, antique carved ivory clocks, rich tapestries. Because files of orderly records and correspondence were captured intact at Neuschwanstein, the castle's contents may well be the most important cache of looted art yet to come to light in Europe...