European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Portrait by the elder Franz from the ten Cote collection in the was acquired by Goering through the use of technique of refined the paint ing was the hands of a jewish Art dealer who had been commissioned to sell Goe ring virtually dictated the tacitly tuning the dealer to play Ballor Rubens bet Othil of Worth at least was bought in a typically Tricky the Reich marshal arranged passage to America for a jewish Art provided that his left in with the owner out of the Goering had his buy the Rubens for less than As Long As i knew Hofer he would never take a second glance at a still but he went in for nudes and landscapes in a apparently this taste for scenery was pretty heavily outweighed by the predilection for the paintings which were liberated by american doughboy in Bavaria included a wide variety of und raped female with particular emphasis on the Bud breasted models of the French eight event Century school and the meager venues of the German Renaissance a month before the War was while All of Germany was crumbling about the shoulders of the nazi Lead Goering chief concern was for the safety of his prize Art according to Goering gave top priority to the evacuation of the stuff from Carin just the goer ing seems to have been willing to part with his precious trinkets at a certain Hofer describes a fantastic meeting Between Hitler and Goering during the last weeks of the War in which they discussed which pictures might be offered to the americans As peace the Job of evacuating the Carin i Hall treasures naturally fell to As the allies closed in on Goering ordered him to move the collection by special train to this was no simple Allied planes were ranging Al most at will Over the bavarian infantry and Armor were seeping along the and towns were failing on All with his precious Railroad reached Feldenstein and there was forced to wait on a Railroad Sid ing for three Hofer describes this As the worst period of my suspense was terrible As i waited realizing that some of the worlds greatest masterpieces were an open target for a bomb or Shell that might blow them to at one Point homers Noble fears were nearly As a precautionary he had the train driven into a Tunnel so that at least some of the cars had an Allied plane spotted the move and started to make a run on the the cause of Art was saved by the antiaircraft guns which Goering had providentially installed on the the plane was brought Down and apparently figuring or no great masters were no match for the Amer ican decided to shove off with out further he piloted the train to Berchtesgaden arid had its cargo stored in a Salt but with in a few Days american troops took Over the Alpine resort town and relieved Hofer of his precious with one or two landscapes brought up to Date by the addition of some highly realistic Bullet homers career As Art curator for Hermann Goering had ended and he never saw his Boss until just a few weeks Hofer was being held in a Munich prison and reported for work on the military government Art project every Day under escort of German since then he has been placed in parole at his Home in he is under area arrest is still a prisoner facing just when he will be and under just what remains in the painstaking Job in which he is that of restoring the nazi acquired Art works to foreign govern ments and private has pro far and Walter Andreas homers own work probably will be completed by by that it is Hermann Goe rings collection will have been Dis posed of and the career of his artful caretaker will have come full portrait of a Young by on unknown artist of the 15th Century Burgundy was an object of Contention Hitler and Goe both wanted the painting but Goering beat his chief to the after learning that the a Netherlands needed Cash and could be made to sell for a
