To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm still reading “The R*pe of Europa”, a book about nazi plunder of European art.
The R*pe of Europa delves a lot into Göring and Hitler schemes to collect art. Hitler's collection was organized for his future “Führermuseum” in Linz, but in practice it was basically his own private collection. Göring had his own agents and dealers working to acquire art across occupied Europe (mostly through confiscated property, museum looting or forced acquisitions where the owner couldn't simply turn down the nazi's offers too many times) and they did what they could to get the best pieces before Hans Posse who reported directly to Hitler, as once Posse determined a certain piece was destined to Linz it was completely out of reach.
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That sounds really interesting, I love stories about subtle internal conflict like that.
I've been reading Requiem for Battleship Yamato by Yoshida (English translation because I don't speak Nippon), which is a continuation of a continuation of my trying to build a picture of how apocalyptic the War was for the Germans, Soviets and Japanese. Last one I read was also about the Yamato, A Glorious Way to Die by Russell Spurr, which was pretty good.
I'm mostly reading it while I wait for really slow measurements in the lab though so I will probably start on Gans' The Origin of Language while I'm at home. Wouldn't read that in the lab since I'll probably need to take notes. Requiem is pretty short, not even 200 pages, so it shouldn't take very long, so then I can get on to another of the variously large stack of books on my desk.
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