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Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art (Howe), 303n

Sas, Maj. G. J., 9–10, 9n

Schacht, Hjalmar, 52

Schmidt-Degener, 106, 143, 190, 201–2, 309n, 314n

Schneider, Hans, 144

Schneider, Norbert, 58–59

Schulz, Charles, 136, 308n

Schwerin museum, 118

Scott, A. O., 308n

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 27

Shapiro, Jerome, 258

Smiling Girl (van Wijngaarden fake Vermeer), 107, 108, 109–11, 111n, 118, 119, 140n, 306n

Smith, John, 22

“Some Recently Discovered Paintings by Frans Hals” (De Groot), 112

Sotheby’s sale of Vermeer, 97n

Spain, 28

Inquisition, 86

occupation of Netherlands, 86–87

Speer, Albert, 51, 55

Spelke, Elizabeth, 226, 316n

Spotts, Frederic, 56, 57, 301n

SS Bodengraven, 12

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 83n

Staatliche Museum, Berlin, 100

State Theater, Berlin, 9

Stein, David, 24, 25

Steinmeyer, Jim, 228, 317n

Steps (Kosinski), 224n

Stevenson, Leo, 35–36, 118n, 176, 177, 307n, 311n

Stout, George, 255

Street in Delft, A (Vermeer), 64

Strijbis, Rens, 263, 283, 284

Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert), 316n

Sunflowers (Van Gogh), 35

copy of, 35–36

Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), 165

Swillens, P.T.A., 85–86, 130, 131n

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“Taking a Holocaust Skeptic Seriously” (Guttenplan), 295n

Tate Gallery, 72

Teller, (Raymond Joseph), 227, 316n

ter Borch, Gerard, 132, 137, 277

Thompson, Clive, 135, 308n

Thoré-Bürger, Theophile, 98–101, 100n, 123, 130, 305n

Thurber, James, 113

“Tichborne claimant,” 151n

Time magazine, 208, 271, 280–81

Tintoretto, Jacopo, 255

paintings in Goudstikker collection, 12, 255

Titian, Tiziano Vecellio, 251, 255

paintings in Goudstikker collection, 12

Rothschild collection of, 64

Vermeer evaluation of, 94

Tournier, Nicolas, 148, 310n

Tower of Babel and Little Tower of Babel (Brueghel), 147n, 310n

Trier, Germany, 252

True or False? Eye or Chemistry? (De Groot), 114

U

UFA studio, 78–79

Uncanny Valley, 132–36, 144, 150

United States

art collectors, robber barons as, 89

Duveen Brothers influence in, 188–89

European art sold in, 89

Holland mania, 89

Monuments Men, 249–55, 259, 289, 303n

101st Airborne, 259, 260

recovery of art stolen by Nazis, 249–62

sale of fake Vermeer to buyer in proposed, 187, 188

Seventh Army, 258

size of army in European Theater of Operations (ETO), 249

Third Army, 249, 250, 252

Vermeer acquisition in, 89–92

Vermeer popularity in, 91

“Unknown Rembrandt Portrait, An” (Bredius), 125

“Unpublished Vermeer, An” (Bredius), 139

Updike, John, 85, 94, 97–98

Utrecht, Holland

Caravaggisti in, 163–64

Nazi threat to, 11

painter Van Der Meer or Vermeer from, 98, 99, 129, 130

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Valentiner, Wilhelm, 109–11, 118n

van Baburen, Dirck, 82–83, 311n

van Belyswijck, Dirck, 94

van Beuningen, D. G., 146–48, 147, 147n, 216, 278, 281, 284, 285, 290, 295n, 310n, 315n, 321n

van de Laar, Michel, 206

van den Brandhof, Marijke, 296n, 306n, 309n

van der Haagen, J. K., 201

van der Laan, Derk, 123–24

van der Meer Mohr, Jim, 309n, 312n

van der Neer, Eglon, 127

van der Vorm, W., 146–48, 147, 199, 202, 216, 217, 281, 283, 284, 285

van de Waal, Harry, 118, 225, 306n

van de Watering, Willem, 58n

van Dyck, Sir Anthony, 144, 251, 255

owned by Goering, 79, 261

Morgan collection, 90

van Eyck, Jan. See Eyck, Jan van

van Gogh, Vincent, 35, 144, 147

Myatt’s forgery, 67

paintings copied from Millet, 68, 68, 302n

prices paid for paintings of, 71

self-portraits, 93

Van Hasselt, 201

van Leeuwenhoek, Anthonie, 64n

van Meegeren, Han, 14–17, 155, 161, 162, 263

amount made from forgery, 3, 42–43, 161, 181n, 199–200, 215, 216–17, 271, 278, 283, 284, 286, 301n, 320n

appearance, 3, 162, 269, 273–74, 281

arrest and imprisonment, 3–5, 206, 263, 265–73

art, style, and talent of, 4, 14, 15, 267, 267, 296n

background of, 4–5, 14, 44

birthplace, 4

charged with collaboration, 8, 265–66, 278

charged with fraud, 278

Christ at Emmaus (1922), 14, 153

confession of, 268–71

death of, 162, 288

in Delft, 4, 5, 95, 304n

Goering and, 26, 157, 263, 268,