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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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Just started Use of Weapons. It's part of Iain M. Banks' Culture series, about a far-future post-scarcity society run by super intelligent AIs who roam the universe fricking up every other civilization they encounter just because they can. It's good so far but it's been a few years since the last time I read one of these books and I'd forgotten how little introduction Banks does. He just sort of throws you into the middle of a situation and lets things unfold. It works from a literary perspective and I always end up enjoying it, but it's slightly annoying to develop a mental picture as I'm reading and have to revise it every couple of pages because I made a wrong assumption about the shape of the room the characters are in.
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