American lieutenant defiling the Imperial Regalia of Germany… I hope a curse befell this wretched, soulless individual for such outrageous disrespect. This is not just against National Socialism, but against an entire people and its thousands of years of history. The Americans even stole ‘Two finely wrought swords of Frederick the Great.’
‘The Allies are only trying to cover their tracks by blaming my father for looting, when they were the masters of looting Europe’s treasures. We read today in the papers accounts of lost works showing up in allied soldiers possessions. In 1945 Europe lay bare and these vermin swooped in and took whatever they could carry. I know the Führer even ordered works to be safeguarded from destruction, and due to this, they were removed and put in safe storage so they would not be destroyed. The Allies looted the works my family owned, and then they jumped in to steal.’
- Edda Göring, 1993 interview.
