From November 1944, to April 1946, the author was Director of the Art Looting Investigation Unit, OSS, where he was directly responsible for recovering the works of art that had been looted by Rosenberg, Goring, and Hitler and hidden in Germany.

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Author, editor, and artist, ALAN JARVISwas educated at the University of Toronto,at Oxford, and at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at New York University. He was director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1955 to 1959 and since that time has been chairman of the Society of Art Publications in Ottawa.