World War II Veteran had Hitler’s Art Book on Bookshelf
December 10, 2009 by All Art News
Filed under Antiques & Archaeology, Featured
DALLAS, TX (AP).- After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler’s home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close. Making his way through the Berghof, Hitler’s home near Berchtesgaden, Germany, Pistone noticed a table with shelves underneath. Exhilarated by the certainty of victory over the Nazis, Pistone took an album filled with photographs of paintings as a souvenir. “It was really a [...]