In 1936, he conceived the plan to convert his hunting lodge in the Schorfheide region north of Berlin into a country house, called the Waldhof Carinhall.
Initially, Goering financed his passion for collecting visual art with gifts from industrialists in exchange for a favor of friends.
At the end of the war, Göring's personal collection included 1,375 paintings, many sculptures, carpets, furniture and other artifacts.
As early as July 1940, Göring turned up in Amsterdam and showed an interest in the art holdings of Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who had died while fleeing the German invasion.
Göring bought all 1,113 of the inventoried paintings and artifacts for NLG 2,000,000 (value 2005: €13,750,000), no more than one-sixth of their actual value (a transaction that resembles an imitation).
[6] In the past twenty years, there have been numerous attempts to inventory Göring's collection of looted art.
[7][8][9][10][11][12] Berlin's German Historical Museum published the full inventory of Göring's collection in 2012, but the site no longer appears to function.