Then there was the apartment’s occupant: a 6-foot-4, 300-pound, blue-eyed giant named Bruno Lohse, who had played a pivotal ...

As “Göring’s man in Paris,” Lohse was “ruthless” in his quest to acquire artworks, said Petropoulos. An opportunist, he ...

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...