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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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Finished "The Redemption of Time," the batshit crazy semi-official fourth Three Body book. I honestly liked it, it was fun to go absolutely wild with the setting and see more about the actual alien cultures and the deep lore. And most of the weirdness works well in the context of it being fanfic.
However, the ending was so funny in a bad way that I have to spoil it. Basically all of the series took place in a previous incarnation of the universe. After a side character from the previous book became a billion year old entity called the Seeker that literally saved female 10-dimensional God from Satan (off screen), our hero's matter eventually reassembled in the new universe as a science fiction novelist. That novelist's name? Cixin Liu. Roll credits!
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