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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Zwischen Staat und Wirtschaft	Stefan Lütgenau	"Die Studie ist eine Geschichte des Versatz-, Verwahrungs- und Versteigerungsamtes Dorotheum während des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich 1938-1945. Das 1707 gegründete Wiener Pfand- und Auktionshau…	OL12672676W
Lost rights	David Howard	Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mem…	OL13783836W
Lettre de MM. Merlin et Jean Debry, Commissaires de l'Assemblée nationale, du 31 août 1792 -- suivi…	Antoine-Christophe Merlin de Thionville	An account of their mission to Beauvais, which was in danger of invasion.	OL15354744W
The English prize	María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés	"Laden with works of art acquired by young British travelers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French …	OL16361693W
War, guilt, and world politics after World War II	Thomas U. Berger	"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other…	OL16451545W
Recueil des lois et arre te s relatifs aux de tenus et condamne s.	France	Consists of documents dated 10 mars 1793 - 4 frimaire an VI (24 novembre 1797), passed by the Convention nationale and the Corps le gislatif.	OL17617960W
The light in the ruins	Christopher A. Bohjalian	1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across…	OL19969224W
The monuments men	Robert M. Edsel	"In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destructio…	OL19971954W
Golda slept here	Suad Amiry	Politics enters the lives of every family in Palestine. In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the his…	OL20007688W
Hitler's art thief	Susan Ronald	"The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartmen…	OL20012898W
Locked Doors	Itamar Levin	"As Itamar Levin shows in this survey, the Jews of Iraq were forced to give up their citizenship in order to obtain permission to leave. Their property was then seized. The Jews of Egypt were deporte…	OL2006566W
El tesoro del «Vita»	Gloria Munilla,Francisco Gracia Alonso	¿Qué tienen en común Juan Negrín, Indalecio Prieto, Lázaro Cárdenas, Camilo José Cela, Marlon Brando y David Ben Gurion? Todos ellos, de formas diversas, están relacionados con el Vita, un yate en el…	OL23306090W
The victim's fortune	John Authers,Richard Wolffe	Half a century after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Thi…	OL24859123W
Closing the books	Charles Weiss	"A growing number of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First the Swiss banks were accused of silently hoard…	OL33108172W
Gold warriors	Sterling Seagrave	great	OL3522967W
Axis rule in occupied Europe	Raphael Lemkin	"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.	OL5718864W
Hitlers Volksstaat	Götz Aly	In this groundbreaking book, distinguished historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Adolf Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans for his program of mas…	OL756173W