There was to have been a huge Goring Museum. There was to have been a huge Hitler Museum. Together, they were to house the cream of Europe's art. Last week the U.S. Seventh Army's Lieut. James J. Rorimer (curator-on-leave of Medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum) found himself sitting on one of the most mountainous heaps of stolen masterpieces known to history. Part of the intended contents of the two projected Nazi museums, the loot was stored in Neuschwanstein Castle, an elaborate retreat built by mad King Ludwig in the wooded hills of southern Bavaria.
Lieut. Rorimer had opened only a few...
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