How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief Over nearly a decade, Jonathan Petropoulos met dozens of times with a man who helped the Nazis loot Jewish art collections, a complicated relationship he explores in “Göring’s Man in Paris.” Bruno Lohse, second from right, leads Hermann Göring, center, on a tour of seized artworks.Credit...Bruno Lohse Papers By Nina Siegal Jan. 17, 2021 By the late 1990s, most of the Nazi art experts who helped loot European Jews were either dead or living quiet lives under the radar. Not so Bruno Lohse, who served as the art agent to the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Hitler’s right-hand man.