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Hitler's Museum

2006 · 104 min

A sober, methodical history lesson that traces stolen art through wartime archives, more instructive than visceral.

Directed by
Hannes Schuler, Jan Lorenzen
Genres
Documentary
Starring
David Ritchie, Burkhard Asmuss, Adolf Hitler
Overview
One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac idea of creating the largest European art center in his home town of Linz. At the beginning of the war on the 1st of September 1939, not only did his armies advance but also his art thieves began to fan out in their great foray of art plundering; an expedition on a previously unheard of scale began. Not only did the task forces of diverse National Socialist organizations pillage the occupied countries; Nazi bigwigs like Goering also took whatever they felt was valuable. This documentary includes the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art: the Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck.

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Directed by
Hannes Schuler, Jan Lorenzen
Genres
Documentary
Starring
David Ritchie, Burkhard Asmuss, Adolf Hitler
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    • war
    • greed
    • power
    • corruption
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    adult
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    • true story
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Hannes Schuler, Jan Lorenzen
    Written by
    Jan Lorenzen
    Starring
    David Ritchie, Burkhard Asmuss, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
    Music
    Jean-Louis Pégorier
    Runtime
    104 min
    Country
    Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands
    Languages
    English, French, German

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