There’s Nothing Golden About This Nazi Treasure Show: New at Reason

Television critic Glenn Garvin checks out American Heroes Channel’s Nazi Treasure Hunters and finds the vault empty:

The first episode of Nazi Treasure Hunters concentrates on the incredible collection of stolen artwork amassed by Hermann Goering, head of the German air force and the second most powerful man in Hitler’s regime.

But whoever’s got the Goering goodies—If, indeed, they still exist; the final days of Hitler’s Germany were a frenzy of Allied bombing and Red Army annihilation—probably has nothing to fear from the wannabe Indiana Joneses of this show.

With much fanfare, they find a hole leading into a decrepit old bunker beneath the site of a Goebbels mansion where much of his art was stored. (Purloined paintings covered so much wall space that Goebbels began mounting them on the ceilings.) The magnificence of this discovery is only somewhat diminished by the fact that modern graffiti artists have preceded them; or that the bunker was thoroughly searched by East German authorities before they razed the house above it.

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