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Goering, Emmy Sonneman, 79, 158, 260

Goering, Hermann, 51–54, 157, 158, 159 addiction to morphine, 259

amount spent on art, 13

appearance, 52, 52n

arrested by Americans, 258

arrested by SS, 257

as art connoisseur and collector, 6–7, 10, 13, 42, 43, 51, 56, 78, 79, 253, 255, 256–57, 261, 295n, 319n

art hidden by, 249, 255, 256–59, 260–61, 262, 303n

art scouts and experts for, 11, 43, 78, 82, 84, 253, 260–61

art stolen from Naples museum, 255

art treasures plundered by, 7, 11, 12–13, 62–65, 160

Battle of Stalin grad and, 62–63

Berchtesgaden retreat, 63, 257, 303n

Carin Hall, country estate, 7, 12, 51, 52, 53–54, 78–79, 84, 254, 256–57, 258, 264

chief of Germany’s Four-Year Plan, 79

clothes, uniforms, costumes, 9, 52–53, 80, 159, 258, 300n

death of, 288

duping, ease of, 227

escape attempt, 256–59

famous observation on mass psychology, 81n

first wife of, 53

funds at hand, 79–80

Gestapo head, 78, 79

gifts to, 79

Hitler’s art rivalry with, 55–56, 147, 157

invasion of Holland and, 10, 11–12

Jews and, 80

Luftwaffe commander in chief, 10, 11, 52–53, 79, 255

Nuremberg imprisonment and trial, 7, 13, 54, 80, 81, 288

personality and temperament, 9, 27, 52, 53–54, 62, 77–81, 158

psychosis or mania of, 53, 62, 77–81, 81n

rank of, 7

Rommel and, 62

Rothschild art collection and, 64

Van Meegeren and, 26, 157, 263, 268, 273, 274, 320n

Vermeer fake Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery and, 82–84, 209, 250, 260–61, 262, 263–64, 268, 273, 275, 278, 281, 289, 303n, 320n

Vermeer paintings and, 85, 147

Vermeer’s Art of Painting and, 60–61, 82, 301n

Vermeer’s The Astronomer and, 64–65

wife, Emmy Sonneman, 79, 258, 260

Gombrich, E. H., 68, 136, 302n, 308n

“Gorgeous Pieter de Hoogh, A” (Bredius), 215–16

Gormanns, Christa, 260

Goudstikker, Jacques, 12–13, 255, 264, 265, 296n

art dealership of, 265, 269, 270, 273, 276

Gowing, Lawrence, 97n

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco, 144

Rothschild collection of, 64

Greco, El, 147

Groningen Museum, 226

Guitar Player, The (Vermeer), 97n

Gutenberg Bibles, 89, 303n

Guttenplan, D. D., 295n

H

Haak, Bob, 237

Hague, The

Art Circle, 139–40

art establishment in, 1920s, 44

Bredius in, 122

Dutch government in, 9–10

Girl with a Pearl Earring in, 45n, 140n, 209

investigation of van Meegeren, 276

Van Meegeren in, 5, 15, 44, 179

Van Wijngaarden in, 112, 114

Vermeers in, 87

Yugo slav War Crimes Tribunal, 87

Hale, Philip, 91, 93

Hals, Frans, 137, 147

forgeries of, 45, 111–14, 115, 116–17, 118, 132, 137, 138, 226, 264, 277, 306n

Metropolitan collection, 91

Morgan collection, 90

Hannema, Dirk, 144–49, 152, 156, 164, 217, 242n, 309n

art collection of, 289–90

Christ at Emmaus forgery and, 185, 186, 187, 188–91, 198–205, 207–10, 218, 243, 271, 285, 289, 292, 314n

Harris, Richard, 315n

Harrison, Evelyn, 240

Hartley, L. P., 221

Harvard University, 252

Hatto, Joyce, 322n

Hay Harvest (Brueghel), 61

Haystack (Myatt’s forgeries of Monet), 67–68

Head of Christ (Van Meegeren forgery), 214, 283–84, 286, 321n

Hearst, William Randolph, 89, 303n

Hebborn, Eric, 23–25, 68

Heil Hitler, Das Schwein ist Tot (Herzog), 300n

Hellman, G. S., 90–91

Hendrickje Stoffels (Rembrandt), 61, 61n

Hendrik, Prince consort, 123, 123n

“Hermann Goering, Amiable Psychopath” (Gilbert), 81

Herzberg, A. J., 30

Herzog, Rudolph, 300n

Het Parool newspaper, 206n, 270

Het Vaderland magazine, 15

Hill, Sir George, 229

History on Trial (Lipstadt), 296n

Hitler, Adolf, 55–56, 157, 300n

amount spent on art, 63n

architecture and, 56

art advisors, 57–58, 61, 253

art connoisseur and collector, 6–7, 43, 51, 56, 61, 253, 301n

art museum in Linz conceived by, 51, 56, 57–58, 60, 61

Berlin Olympics, 167

criticism or negative evaluations forbidden by, 226n

final days and suicide, 257

Goering art rivalry with, 55–56, 147, 157

invasion of Holland and, 10

Rothschild art collection and, 64

Van Meegeren and, 268, 274, 321n

Vermeer paintings and, 58