Achille Boitel

He manufactured aircraft engines, traded with the Germans, and played a pivotal role in a collaborationist art syndicate.

[5] He owned a factory producing packing cases for the Dienststelle Westen[6] (Western Agency), the branch of the Nazi looting organisation Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) for France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

[9] He was part of the syndicate formed by German art dealer Hans Wendland that also included Allen Loebl and Yves Perdoux.

[4] Boitel's secretary, Roland Mayeux (alias Jules Alfred Mahieu), was an agent for Walter Hofer, director of the Göring Collection.

Among those for which there are records are, Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as Woman with a Carnation) by Master of the Mass of Saint Gregory and Lucas Cranach the Elder,[13] Pan and Syrinx, or the Bath of Diana by Nicolas Bertin,[14] Shepherdess, French, 18th century,[15] and Portrait of François I, copy after Titian.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Woman with a Carnation . Oil on panel. 16th century. Musee d'Art et d'Archeologie, Moulins, France. Sold by Boitel to Hermann Göring. [ 7 ]