After the Panzers, the plunderers Conquerors have always carried away the spoils of war - but the Nazis and their agents took art theft to its nadir as Jonathan Petropoulos tells in The Faustian Bargain The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany Jonathan Petropoulos Penguin �20, pp395 Review: George Steiner, The Observer (London, U.K.)

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