Monday, November 5, 2012

The Mystery of Rommel's Gold


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Rommel's Gold
The author, Peter Haining is a former newspaper journalist, and writer of little-known stories of the Second World War. “The mystery of Rommel’s Gold” is devoted to Ian Fleming, the writer of famous books about James Bond, who introduced him to the mystery.
During the Second World War, Hitler had a plan to make a museum, like Louvre, in a small city Linz in Austria where he spent his childhood, and to make of it a Nazi art centre of Europe. It is not well known, when he was young, his dream was to become a famous painter. He didn’t succeed, but the obsession for art remained with him. From all the countries he conquered, the Nazi Army were taking all valuable treasures and art collections from Jewish families and museums, under explanation they will guard them. By late 1944, 10,000 paintings, of which over half were old masters, were being stored in Germany.
Rommel is one of the most famous Hitler’s generals and the commander of the German African Korps, nicknamed as the “Desert Fox”. As a devoted admirer of Hitler, during his conquering over Africa, he collected silver coins diamonds, jewelry, precious stones and objects of art, which value was estimated to be 60 million pounds. He decided to send this hoard to Germany as a gift for the Fuhrer, but the vessel carrying the gold never reached its destination. So this book is devoted to the mystery of the missing treasure.

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