Mary M. Lane, author of Hitler's Last Hostages
Sunday, November 15, 2026 · 12:00 PM EST · City of Fairfax Regional Library · Fairfax, VA
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Join local Virginia author Mary M. Lane to discuss her critically acclaimed book, Hitler's last hostages: looted art and the soul of the Third Reich. The book was one of three finalists for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Book of the Year in 2020. In 2012, the German government confiscated roughly 1,300 works by Heni Matisse, George Grosz, Claude Monet, and other masters from the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of one of Hitler's primary art dealers — Hildebrand Gurlitt. For two years, the government kept the discovery a secret. In Hitler's Last Hostages, Mary M. Lane reveals the fate of those works and tells the definitive story of art in the Third Reich and Germany's ongoing struggle to right the wrongs of the past. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
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