7 THE ROTHSCHILD JEWELS; THE GÖRING COLLECTION 171 8 LOOTERS’ CASTLE: SCHLOSS NEUSCHWANSTEIN 219 9 HIDDEN TREASURES AT NÜRNBERG 243 10 MISSION TO AMSTERDAM; THE WIESBADEN MANIFESTO 259 APPENDIX 297 INDEX 321 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Special Evacuation Team. Lieutenants Kovalyak, Moore and Howe _Frontispiece_ Hermann Göring, his daughter, Frau Göring and Hitler _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Residenz at Würzburg 30 Ruined Frankfurt. The Cathedral 30 The Central Collecting Point at Munich 31 A typical storage room in the Central Collecting Point 31 The bronze coffin of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia 40 Canova’s life-size statue of Napoleon’s sister 40 The administration buildings at the Alt Aussee salt mine 41 Truck at the mine being loaded with paintings 41 Sieber and Kern view Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child 56 The Madonna being packed for return to Bruges 56 The famous Ghent altarpiece 57 Sieber, Kern and Eder examine the altarpiece 57 Vermeer’s _Portrait of the Artist in His Studio_ 64 One of the picture storage rooms at Alt Aussee 64 Panel from the Louvain altarpiece, _Feast of the Passover_ 65 The Czernin Vermeer 65 Major Anderson supervising removal of the Göring Collection 96 One of the forty rooms in the Rest House 96 The GI Work Party which assisted the Evacuation Team 97 Truck loaded with sculpture from the Göring Collection 97 German altarpiece from the Louvre Museum 128 The panel, _Mary Magdalene_, by van Scorel 128 Wing of an Italian Renaissance altarpiece by del Garbo 129 _The Magdalene_, by Erhardt 129 _Mary Magdalene_, by Cranach 160 _The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine_ by David 160 _Diana_, by Boucher, from the Rothschild Collection 161 _Atalanta and Meleager_, by Rubens 161