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Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world (English)
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Lohse helped other Jewish and non-Jewish French colleagues who ran afoul of the German authorities. In an early postwar interrogation from the jail in Füssen, he listed fourteen instances when he had helped save lives.196 These included intervening to help the important art dealers Paul Cailleux (1884–1964) (president of the Art Dealers Association in Paris) and André Schoeller (1881–1955), who ran the Association of Art Publishers and Brokers in Modern Paintings.197 Paul Cailleux’s wife was Jewish, and Lohse saved her from the Drancy internment camp in 1942 (as well as from the Gestapo in 1943).198 Schoeller’s son was almost sent to Germany as a forced laborer. Only Lohse’s intervention prevented his deportation.199 Despite these troubles with the German authorities, both Cailleux and Schoeller collaborated. Cailleux’s circle included at least thirteen “private German clients,” including Maria Almas Dietrich, Adolf Wüster at the German embassy, Friedrich Welz in Salzburg, and Gustav Rochlitz.200 Cailleux, according to André Schoeller, had tried to help “Aryanize” the Wildenstein Gallery during the occupation. (English)