The Lady in Gold (60 page)

  
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“THE MUSEUMS HELPED THEMSELVES”:
Baroness Marianne Kirstein-Jacobs, interview, Vienna, May 7, 2007. Subsequent quotes are from this interview.

  
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“ADELE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON”:
Gottfried Toman, interview, Oct. 2007. Subsequent quotes from Toman are from this interview.

  
3
“IT STIRS UP A LOT OF THINGS”:
Felicitas Kunth, provenance director of the Dorotheum, interview, Oct. 2006.

  
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“MY OLDEST FRIEND”:
Sophie Lillie, interview, Apr. 2006.

  
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“YOU GREW UP NOT KNOWING”:
Ruth Pleyer, interview, Apr. 16, 2007.

  
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“HE REALIZED HE COULD”:
Stanislaus Bachofen-Echt, interview, Vienna Nov. 5, 2006. Subsequent quotations are also from interviews in Apr. 2007.

  
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A YELLOWING U.S. MILITARY FORM:
Certificate of Discharge, Aug. 29, 1946, signed by Dr. Lardschneider and approved by an Allied Discharging Officer (name illegible), Vienna State Archives.

  
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“WE HAD SOME NAZIS IN THE FAMILY”:
Franz Josef Czernin, interview, Vienna. Subsequent quotations are from this interview, May 2007.

  
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THERE TURNED OUT TO BE PLENTY:
Christopher Simpson, ed.,
War Crimes of the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank: Office of Military Government (U.S) Reports
(New York: Holmes & Meier, 2002), pp. 308, 342, 351. Also: Johannes Bahr,
Die Dresdner Bank in der Wirtschaft des Dritten Reichs
(Munich: Oldenbourg, 2006), p. 602.

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STEINHOF HOSPITAL:
Francis Nicosia and Jonathan Huener,
Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2002), pp. 101–4. Also: Marius Turda and Paul Weindling,
“Blood and Homeland”: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940
(New York: Central European University Press, 2006), p. 329; Debra Martens, “Unfit to Live,”
Canadian Medical Association Journal,
Sept. 14, 2004, pp. 619–20.

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BUT NEW NAZI-ERA ARCHIVES:
Kate Connolly, “Unquiet Grave for Nazi Victims,”
The Guardian,
Apr. 29, 2002.

12
“A PERPETRATOR WHO CALLED HIMSELF”:
Renate Göllner, “Ich war gar nicht eingeheit,”
Konkret,
Oct. 2008. Additional sources on scrutiny of Caruso: Bettina Reiter, “Es waren doch Gutachten,”
Die Presse,
May 9, 2008; Eveline List, “ ‘Warum nicht in Kischniew?' Zu einem autobiographischen Tondokument Igor Caruso,”
Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis
33, no. 1 (2008): 117–41.

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ONE CURATOR SAID IT HAD BEEN:
Telephone interview with Dr. Georg Lechner, the curator of the Baroque, Belvedere Museum, July 20, 2010. On the Belvedere bunker as a potential refuge for Hitler and Nazi leadership, see also Simone Fässler,
Von Wien her, auf Wien hin: Ilse Aichingers “Geographie der eigenen Existenz
” (Vienna: Böhlau, 2011).

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BUT HITLER BUILT:
Franz Wilhelm Seidler and Dieter Ziegert,
Hitler's Secret Headquarters: The Führer's Wartime Bases from the Invasion of France to the Berlin Bunker
(Bamsley, UK: Greenhill Books, 2006).

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HIS BOOK SHOWS HITLER PRESIDING OVER:
Aurenhammer and Aurenhammer,
Das Belvedere,
p. 126, photo.

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IN THOSE DAYS:
Ibid., p. 36.

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“VIENNA WAS NO LONGER FAR FROM THE COMBAT ZONE”:
Ibid.

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“THE PROTEST OF THE GALLERY'S MANAGEMENT”:
Ibid.

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“FÜHRER HEADQUARTERS”:
Das Museum. Spiegel und Motor kulturalpolitischer Visionen
(The Museum: Mirror and Motivator of Cultural-Political Visions 1903–2003), ed. Hadwig Krautler and Gerbert Frodl (Vienna: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 2003), p. 72.

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“PLEASE NOTE WHAT THE BELVEDERE”:
E-mail from Lena Maurer, Belvedere press spokeswoman, Nov. 9, 2009.

  
1
PLASTER MOLDINGS AND ORNAMENTATION:
Stefan Gulner, interviews, Apr. 2007.

  
2
“JÜDISCHE?”:
Interview at the Zentral Friedhof, Nov. 1, 2006.

  
3
“MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ONE OF HIS MODELS”:
Gustav Zimmermann, interview at the Hietzing Friedhof, Nov. 1, 2006; subsequent quotations from interviews Apr.–May 2007.

  
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“THE CURSE OF THE KLIMTS”:
Maria Altmann, interview, 2006.

  
2
“NELLY AND I USED TO BE”:
Maria Altmann, interview, 2006.

  
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NELLY WANTED TO DONATE:
Maria Harris, Maria Altmann, interviews, 2006; multiple e-mail exchanges with Nelly Auersperg.

  
4
“HOW SAD—IF UNSURPRISING”:
Michael Kimmelman, “Klimts Go to Market; Museums Hold Their Breath,”
New York Times,
Sept. 19, 2006.

  
5
“THIS WAS OUR AUSTRIAN
MONA LISA
”:
Werner Fürnsinn, interview, Vienna, Sept. 2006.

  
6
“WE LENT THEM THOSE PAINTINGS”:
Maria Altmann, interview, Sept. 2006.

  
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“HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME”:
Letter from Maria Altmann to Nelly Auersperg, read to author, Sept. 7, 2007.

  
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“MY MOTHER NEVER WANTED TO DIG UP”:
Maria Harris, interview.

  
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“MRS. ALTMANN, CONGRATULATIONS”:
Press conference prior to the Christie's auction, Nov. 8, 2006.

10
RONALD LAUDER SHOWED MARIA:
Maria Altmann, interview, Dec. 2006.

11
“DO I HEAR $12 MILLION?”:
On-site reporting at the Christie's auction, Nov. 8, 2006.

12
“MY AUNT ADELE AND UNCLE FERDINAND”:
Christie's press statement, Nov. 8, 2006.

13
“WE WERE LUCKY”:
Reporting at the event, Nov. 8, 2006.

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“DID ADELE'S PORTRAIT GO TO THAT MAN”:
Maria Altmann, interview, Dec. 2006.

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“THE FATE OF THE KLIMT PAINTINGS”:
Nelly Auersperg, correspondence with the author, Jan. 31, 2009.

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“I DON'T WANT TO ASK NELLY”:
Maria Altmann, interview.

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