Scrabbling for spoils amid a terrible lot of death

Germany’s National Socialists, call them Nazis, wanted to expand the country’s lebensraum, its living space, by crushing other nations and murdering Jews, Slavs and Bolsheviks supposedly inferior to their "superior” Aryan selves. And, of course, there were lots of nice paintings and other objets d’art to be picked up along the way, so those were fair game too.