Schloss Leopoldskron
Rococo lakeside palace once seized as Jewish property under Nazi rule, now a global dialogue center.
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This guide to Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg follows the theater director Max Reinhardt, who bought the crumbling rococo palace in 1918 and spent two decades filling it with the actors, composers and writers who founded the Salzburg Festival. It turns to what the Nazi authorities did in April 1938, weeks after the Anschluss, when they recorded the palace as, in their words, Jewish property and seized it outright while Reinhardt was in New York. Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a socialite with Nazi connections later exposed as a double agent, talked her way into loading sixteen wooden crates onto a truck outside the gates.
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