European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Goers Isis artful Deale by Dexter Freeman helping my return Goering favob1te was this cranach Adam and displayed proudly to guests like Sumner then of state Hofer examines a now restored to France Ata fashionable hotter of the after a modest parisian a prosperous Stern faced suave though entered the big front door of a building on the Quai he walked briskly up the stairs and into his an establish ment equipped rather differently from most Ordinary places of stacked about the Walls was a taste Ful litter of framed Oil paintings of the old Continental rolled tapestries of precious Man fac and a few assorted pieces of miscellaneous this was 1944 and Walter Andreas glue fingered German Art dealer and official joint Caser for her Mann Goering personal was beginning another Days this daily routine was Likely to involve some artful bits of business that bordered on As Practised by Hofer and other agents about the it worked so successfully that by the time the United states army put a Stop to Goering Hobby by winning the Reichs marshals collection included several million dollars Worth of baubles gleaned from galleries private collections All Over Walter Andreas still suave though slightly shows up for work promptly at eight three Days a at a Marble columned building in the midst of Munich bomb ruined inside this now bavarian Central collecting Point for millions of dollars Worth of Art treasures purchased or looted from All parts of Europe by Goering and other acquisitive time is moving for months the tortuous process of identifying and tracing the sources of thousands of pieces of sculpture and other Art items has kept a Large staff of experts their aim is to restore these treasures to their rightful through a Well calculated bit of practical Hofer himself is now methodically helping to undo the work it took him ten years to working alongside american and German Art Hofer is the key Manon the restoration As an Art critic he was never considered better than second but his memory is without consulting records in Many records Are nonexistent he recalls dates and prices with the accuracy of an adding he looks at each picture As it goes through the Mill and in nearly every Case is Able to Tell the name of the work and when and where it was once two valuable Boucher paint Ings were reported experts searched everywhere without much they happened to mention the paintings to at that had just come on the Hofer snapped his come with he from the mass of canvases stacked a the building he picked out the three miss ing ones in a matter of i remember rolling them up he homers first Contact with Goering was in As a Berlin he sold the marshal a Goering was so pleased with the Purchase that in the following years he became a regular customer of homers when goer ing in that he needed a curator for his rapidly growing collect he called on the Berlin agent Hoier moved into Goering famous bavarian Hunting Carin a rambling fieldstone affair that looked like a Cross Between a country club an a nazi where the valuable collection was kept in 1944 he also took Over the Job of chief procurer of Art pieces Goering in and until the end of the War the Luftwaffe chiefs Art caretaker and the secret of his Success in building up the Carin Hall collection Lay in a skillful application of Protection Racket methods to the Art Hofer made no secret of his connection with Goering and with this impressive bulk behind Hofer found that almost any thing he wanted to buy was for Sale and that the prices were astonishingly v Goering was a difficult Man to work Hofer he would never buy not even a lamp without inspecting it and he would go into a fit of anger if anything happened to a picture or a work of Art Hofer also notes that was one of Germany wealthiest was very tight and was inclined to quibble Over the slightest although Goering never took advantage of the arrange he had a standing agreement that he could return any picture with in a year if he decided he didst like it the Bemeda led nazi who had started collecting Art works before Hitler came into had a disliking for still life paintings that amounted almost to a
