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During World War II; the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Gouml;ring the looting program quickly created the largest private art collection in the world; exceeding the collections amassed by the Metropolitan in New York; the British Museum in London; the Louvre in Paris and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow. By the end of the war; the Nazis had stolen roughly one-fifth of the entire art treasures of the world. This book explores the formation of the Nazi art collection and the methods used by Gouml;ring and his party to strip occupied Europe of a large part of its artistic heritage.