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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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Been reading Outlive by Peter Attia. Seems a lot better than the typical longevity book, it doesn't promise that you can totally stop/reverse aging with one weird trick and is mostly just promising to retain functionality until closer to your time of death, i.e. you get to stay active and mostly healthy until 12-24 months before you die and maybe live a decade longer than you would have otherwise. Mostly the plan is to achieve this through exercise diet and exercise, the only exotic substances recommended so far are FDA approved cholesterol meds.
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