COL. STOREY: “These photos represent an addition to the collection of 53 of the most valuable objects of art delivered some time ago to your collection. This folder also gives only a weak impression of the exceptional value and extent of these objects of art, seized by my service command”—Dienststelle—“in France and put into a safe place in the Reich.”
If Your Honors please, at this time we would like to project on the screen a few of these photographs. The photographs of paintings which we are now about to project on the screen are taken from a single volume of the catalogue and are merely representative of the many volumes of pictures of similar works. The other items, photos of which are to be projected, were picked from various volumes on special subjects. For example, the Gobelin tapestry which you are about to see is merely one picture from an entire volume of tapestry illustrations. Each picture that you will see is representative of a number of volumes of similar pictures, and each volume from which these single pictures were taken represents approximately a tenth of the total number of volumes which would be necessary to illustrate all the items actually plundered by the Einsatzstab. We will now have the slides, just a few of them.
[Photographs were projected on the screen in the courtroom.]
This first picture is a “Portrait of a Woman,” painted by the Italian painter Palma Vecchio.
The next picture is a “Portrait of a Woman” by the Spanish painter Velasquez.
This picture is a “Portrait of Lady Spencer” by the English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
This picture is a painting by the French painter Watteau.
This is a painting of “The Three Graces” by Rubens.
This is a “Portrait of an Old Woman” by the famous painter Rembrandt.
This painting of a young woman is by the Dutch painter Van Dyck.