| The Special Evacuation Team. Lieutenants Kovalyak, Moore and Howe | [Frontispiece] |
| Hermann Göring, his daughter, Frau Göring and Hitler | [Frontispiece] |
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| The Residenz at Würzburg | [30] |
| Ruined Frankfurt. The Cathedral | [30] |
| The Central Collecting Point at Munich | [31] |
| A typical storage room in the Central Collecting Point | [31] |
| The bronze coffin of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | [40] |
| Canova’s life-size statue of Napoleon’s sister | [40] |
| The administration buildings at the Alt Aussee salt mine | [41] |
| Truck at the mine being loaded with paintings | [41] |
| Sieber and Kern view Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child | [56] |
| The Madonna being packed for return to Bruges | [56] |
| The famous Ghent altarpiece | [57] |
| Sieber, Kern and Eder examine the altarpiece | [57] |
| Vermeer’s Portrait of the Artist in His Studio | [64] |
| One of the picture storage rooms at Alt Aussee | [64] |
| Panel from the Louvain altarpiece, Feast of the Passover | [65] |
| The Czernin Vermeer | [65] |
| Major Anderson supervising removal of the Göring Collection | [96] |
| One of the forty rooms in the Rest House | [96] |
| The GI Work Party which assisted the Evacuation Team | [97] |
| Truck loaded with sculpture from the Göring Collection | [97] |
| German altarpiece from the Louvre Museum | [128] |
| The panel, Mary Magdalene, by van Scorel | [128] |
| Wing of an Italian Renaissance altarpiece by del Garbo | [129] |
| The Magdalene, by Erhardt | [129] |
| Mary Magdalene, by Cranach | [160] |
| The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine by David | [160] |
| Diana, by Boucher, from the Rothschild Collection | [161] |
| Atalanta and Meleager, by Rubens | [161] |
| Portrait of a Young Girl by Chardin and Young Girl with Chinese Figure by Fragonard | [192] |
| Christ and the Adulteress, the fraudulent Vermeer | [193] |
| Portrait of the Artist’s Sister by Rembrandt | [193] |
| Removal of treasures from Neuschwanstein | [224] |
| Neuschwanstein—Ludwig II’s fantastic castle | [224] |
| Packing looted furniture at Neuschwanstein | [225] |
| Typical storage room in the castle | [225] |
| The Albrecht Dürer house—before and after the German collapse | [256] |
| The Veit Stoss altarpiece from the Church of Our Lady at Cracow | [257] |
| The Hungarian Crown Jewels | [288] |
| Treasure Room at the Central Collecting Point, Wiesbaden | [289] |
| The celebrated sculpture, Queen Nefertete | [289] |