Title The safekeepers : a memoir of the arts at the end of World War II / Walter I. Farmer ; revised and prefaced by Klaus Goldmann ; with an introduction by Margaret Farmer Planton

Published Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations, map Series Cultural property studies Cultural property studies. Contents Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter one: My Castle; Chapter two: Honest Duty; Chapter three: Museum Man; Beginning in Wiesbaden; The Regierungsbezirk; Assistance to Artists; Ready!; 20-Aug-45; Chapter four: Westward Ho, Watteau!; Chapter five: Fine Arts and Archives; Chapter six: The Search for Missing Treasures; Walter Ings Farmer, Time Line; Map; Appendix I; The Roberts Commission; Appendix II; II a Wiesbaden Manifesto November 7, 1945; II b Wiesbaden Collecting Point: List of Contents 1946; II.c Receipt of Custody: List of German-Owned Works of Art (The "202") II d List of Paintings from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum: The "202"Appendix III; III a Miscellaneous Papers; III b Nefertiti; Appendix IV; The Obligations of Victory: Walter Farmer and the Wiesbaden Manifesto; Appendix V; Photo Documentation; Index Summary Item discusses life at the Wiesbaden Collecting Point in Germany, where cultural property and art works were collected and held at the end World War II. In November 1945 the Director of the Collection Point (the author) received a telegram ordering him to send 200 premier German-owned art works to Washington. He and his officers resisted this command with a written protest that became known as the Wiesbaden Manifesto Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz fast Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Art and the war Art treasures in war -- Germany Art treasures in war Kunstroof. Germany Genre/Form Art History Form Electronic book Author Goldmann, Klaus ISBN 9783110893502 3110893509

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