1945 - Looting of Collection during World War Two

1945 (Looting of Collection during World War Two)- The war ends and reports begin to emerge about the poor condition of the Castle and portions of Eugenia's collection that were left behind. Eugenia's family would later claim that the Nazis looted or destroyed "over a million dollars in art treasures, paintings and the like and only five pictures were salvaged." (Link1). Later accounts from Monuments Man Prof. Ernst T. deWald describe the extensive damage stating that "every stick of furniture remaining was hacked to pieces and the pictures slashed to ribbons."