A registry listing every artwork that Hermann Goering--Hitler's righthand man--looted during the Nazi regime has been published for the first time.

The handwritten log has been in French diplomatic archives and only available to scholars. The Goering Catalogue, published by Flammarion, was released on Wednesday.

Listed are about 1,400 stolen art works, from Botticelli and Durer to Renoir and Monet, along with 250 sculptures and 168 tapestries. Titles, descriptions, artist names, origins and ownership details are recorded.

Goering stole artwork largely from Jewish collectors, as well as museums and others, and sent the inventoried items to Carinhall, his country estate outside of Berlin. As the war reached an end, Goering packed much of the artwork onto private trains headed for Bavaria where they were intercepted by Allied forces.

Public access to the published piece will help rightful owners and heirs find stolen artworks, say scholars.

Goering's loot was outnumbered by Hitler's stolen art collection which is said to have contained about 5,000 works.