At the request of Hermann Göring, Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) facilitated the systematic theft of more than 30,000 artworks—taken largely from French Jews—and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s, Lohse was officially de-nazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums—even as he stockpiled his own valuable collection of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro. Having spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse, Jonathan Petropoulos offers "a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched." (NYTimes)