 Under interrogation after the war he claimed to have acquired 3000 painting for the "Führermuseum" between 1943 and 1944, although the records do not support this figure, and many of the artworks were of distinctly secondary importance.In April 1943, the German public first heard about the Linz project in a special edition of Heinrich Hoffmann's art magazine "Kunst dem Volk" ("Art to the People").It revealed both the intention to build a great art gallery in Linz and the existence of the collection which had been amassed for it, although, of course, nothing was said about the methods used to acquire many of the pieces.