Goering's Stolen Art Collection: The Most Expensive War Booty

Hermann Goering's personal art collection contained over 1,500 works stolen from Jewish collectors across Europe, valued at over $200 million at the time. The collection was so vast that it required a special train to transport it to his country estate at Carinhall. When American forces captured it, they found works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Goya, and Botticelli — plus an extraordinary collection of stolen art that Goering had specifically selected from the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris for himself. Monuments Men were horrified at the scope of the personal looting.