Ch. 1. Part I : Administering art : the competition for cultural control -- The establishment of the National Socialist cultural bureaucracy, 1933-1936 -- Degenerate art and state interventionism, 1936-1938 -- From confiscation to aryanization : the radicalization of cultural policy, 1938-1939 -- Art and avarice abroad : the advent of Nazi plundering in Poland, the Baltic states, and the south Tyrol 1939-1940 -- Occupation and exploitation, 1940-1943 -- The contraction of the cultural bureaucracy, 1943-1945 -- Part II : Collecting art -- An overview of the leaders' collections and methods of acquisition. Adolf Hitler ; Hermann Goring ; Joseph Goebbels ; Joachim von Ribbentrop ; Heinrich Himmler ; Baldur von Schirach ; Hans Frank ; Robert Ley ; Albert Speer ; Martin Bormann ; Arthur Seyss-Inquart ; Josef Burckel -- Art collecting as a reflection of the National Socialist leaders' worldviews -- Art collecting and interpersonal relations among the National Socialist elite -- Art collecting, luxury, and the National Socialist elite's conception of status -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Organizational charts and glossary of key figures.
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