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At one point he hired…Bartos told his story in a documentary called The Puppet Master, shown on British television in 2003.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE AMIABLE PSYCHOPATH
He clapped along merrily…Mosley, p. 390.
“I saw on the platform”…Ibid., p. 10.
“The director did object”…David Irving, p. 155.
Goering used another painting…Nicholas, p. 35.
“Goering was never unpleasant”…Ibid., p. 109.
“Bachstitz is to be left alone”…David Irving, p. 437.
One colleague, writing…Quoted in Fest, p. 78.
Hofer made the rounds…Nicholas, p. 36.
Goering ignored UFA’s invoice…David Irving, p. 280.
In April 1935, when Goering married…This description of Goering’s wedding festivities and the quote from Emmy Goering come from David Irving, pp. 157–58.
The gifts were lavish…Fest, p. 31, and David Irving, p. 374.
“I was the last court”…David Irving, p. 299.
“Heil der Dicke!”…Mosley, p. 211.
“The people want to love”…Fest, p. 72.
One nightclub comic…Mosley, p. 9.
“He can turn on a smile”…Goldensohn, p. 101.
“When you use a plane”…Mosley, p. 204.
“Certainly as second man”…Goldensohn, p. 131.
“I seem to come alive”…Mosley, p. 34.
“there will be statues”…Fest, p. 82.
“what made those Nazis tick”…Goldensohn, p xx.
“half militarist and half gangster”…Mosley, p. 416.
“For these crimes”…Quoted by Gary J. Bass in a New York Times op-ed entitled “Try and Try Again,” Sept. 26, 2006. Bass is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals.
It was in a conversation…G. M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, p. 278.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: GOERING’S PRIZE
Vermeer’s procuress has a cagey…Diederik Kraaijpoel, personal communication, June 7, 2006.
That suddenly precious painting…Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, p. 155.
Miedl knew Goering well…Nicholas, p. 105.
2 million Dutch guilders…Ibid., p. 110.
Goering handed Miedl 137 paintings…There is dispute over this number. Nicholas cites a figure of 150. See pp. 109–10. Kilbracken puts the number at “some two hundred”; see p. 2. The 137 figure comes from Thomas Carr Howe, Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art, p. 193. I have gone with 137 both because it is the most conservative figure and because Howe, a Monuments Man, wrote a firsthand account of seeing Goering’s stolen “Vermeer” in Berchtesgaden.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: VERMEER
“It now seems uncontentious”…Gaskell, p. 39.
“perhaps the loveliest objects”…John Updike, Just Looking, p. 22.
Vermeer “stayed with me”…Swillens, p. 13. Werness cites this passage in “Han van
Meegeren fecit”; see p. 51.
plague swept through Amsterdam…Anthony Bailey, Responses to Rembrandt, p. 105.
in 1654, an explosion…The first chapter of Anthony Bailey’s Vermeer is a tour de force description of the explosion. See also Hans Koningsberger, The World of Vermeer, pp. 60–61.
“Everyone must be made to live”…Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes, p. 57.
“If there are vices”…E. H. Carr, What Is History? p. 77.
One victim of the blast…Koningsberger, p. 60.
The war was “still going”…Koningsberger, p. 29.
“to spend a little time with the Vermeers”…Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia, p. 14.
CHAPTER TWENTY: JOHANNES VERMEER, SUPERSTAR
The painting had suffered…Blankert, personal communication, May 20, 2006. Blankert, who studied the prices in nineteenth-century travelers’ guides to Holland, estimates that 2.3 florins was roughly the price of a night in a first-class hotel and a light meal.
From the start, rapturous crowds…Quentin Buvelot, “On Des Tombe, Donor of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Mauritshuis in Focus, Jan. 2004.
The frenzy was dubbed…Arthur Wheelock and Marguerite Glass, “The Appreciation of
Vermeer in Twentieth-Century America,” in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer, ed.
Wayne Franits, p. 163.
Duveen had “noticed that Europe”…S. N. Behrman, Duveen, p. 3.
J.P. Morgan acquired…Philipp Blom discusses Morgan’s Bibles and Hearst’s ware houses in To Have and to Hold; see pp. 127 and 134.
She had