Le plus grand pillage d’Art Nazi | Les secrets cachés du Louvre

During the Occupation, the Nazis orchestrated the largest art looting in history with the complicity of a segment of the French art market. This investigative documentary retraces the fate of works stolen from Jewish families, the rigged sales at Drouot, the collections of Nazi dignitaries like Göring, and the long legal battle waged against French museums to recover these lost masterpieces. A powerful exploration of the dark corners of the art world, between memory, justice, and the legacy of the Second World War. 00:00 — Drouot flourishing under the Occupation. 00:10 — Legalized looting. 01:18 — Unparalleled scale of the Nazi looting, figures to come. 04:11 — Revelation about Drouot and the forced sales of Jewish families fleeing the country. 05:20 — The Göring collection, hundreds of pieces amassed. 07:34 — Iconic collector, ideal target. 12:56 — The temporary administrator sells everything, in the absence of the refugee children. 18:50 — The grandson discovers the paintings hanging in the Louvre, next to the Mona Lisa. 19:56 — Raw testimony from Adriana, 40 years old, etched in memory. 32:13 — The appeals court recognizes the spoliation and orders the restitution of the 5 paintings.