THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 28, 1943 

* "Rare of Europe" - Nazis looting - plundering 
* Art, machinery, war materials & much more 

The top of the back  page has a one column heading: "NAZI LOOTING HELD BIGGEST IN HISTORY" with subheads. (see images) 
Complete with all 44 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background: The April 28, 1943, New York Times report served as the public unveiling of a massive Allied investigation into Nazi spoliation, revealing that the "rape of Europe" had expanded far beyond fine art into a total economic stripping of occupied territories. This report was historically significant because it shattered the perception that Nazi looting was merely an elitist obsession with masterpieces, exposing instead a systematic "total plunder" that targeted industrial machinery, war materials, and even the mundane artifacts of daily life, such as garden tools, kitchenware, and linens seized from over 71,000 homes. By detailing the cold, bureaucratic efficiency of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and the M-Aktion (Furniture Action), the article provided the moral and political justification needed to mobilize the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) section. It framed the Nazi theft not just as a loss of treasure, but as a deliberate attempt to cripple the industrial and domestic survival of entire nations, thereby establishing the urgent necessity for the Allied military to act as both liberators and restitution agents.