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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.
Sounds really cool
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