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8. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b6c4c78e-4860-11e3-a3ef-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3FN4zaABP.
9. I am grateful to Mel Urbach and Markus Stoetzel for the interviews they granted me in New York and in Marburg.
10. Author interview with Markus Stoetzel, Marburg, July 15, 2014.
11. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b6c4c78e-4860-11e3-a3ef-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3FN4zaABP.
12. Author interview with Markus Stoetzel, Marburg, July 15, 2014.
13. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b6c4c78e-4860-11e3-a3ef-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3FN4zaABP.
32. Feeding Frenzy
1. www.online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579561840264114668?.
2. www.spiegel.de/international/germany/spiegel-interview-with-cornelius-gurlitt-about-munich-art-find-a-933953.html.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Author interview with Anton Löffelmeier of the LMD.
6. www.online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579561840264114668?.
7. I thank Stephan Holzinger, former spokesman for Cornelius Gurlitt, for providing me with an English version of this document.
8. Ibid.
9. His brother-in-law would also inherit personal items under a separate will, such as the Munich flat and the house in Salzburg.
10. Reiterated by several Swiss banking contacts who wish to remain anonymous.
11. www.online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579561840264114668?.
12. www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2655398/Germany-looted-Matisse-belongs-Jewish-family.html#ixzz3FSNEriTH.
13. The reply given stunned me and was later reiterated. My interest in Gurlitt was ignited.
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