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Fast Forward 1902 Pisarro Masterpiece in Munich Cache Was Looted by Nazis
Experts have determined that a painting by Camille Pissarro from the cache of reclusive German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt was stolen by Nazis from its rightful owner, according to German officials. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters declared in a statement that her ministry was already in touch with an heiress of the original owner and…
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Fast Forward Dutch Royals Plan To Return Looted Art Work
The Dutch royal family contacted the heirs of a Nazi-looted painting’s owners as a step toward restitution. Queen Juliana had purchased the painting from a Dutch art dealer in 1960, according to independent research commissioned by the palace in 2012, the French news agency AFP reported. It was not known at the time that the…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Murdered Earlier Than Thought?
New research by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam shows that the teenage diarist died earlier than previously believed. The exact date of Anne Frank’s death from typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. At the end of World War II the Red Cross officially concluded that she died sometime during March 1945. But new…
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Culture Chasing ‘The Messiah’ and Bruno Schulz’s Long-Lost Novel
Despite the limited number of literary works that survived his life, cut short by a Nazi’s bullet in wartime Poland, many today view Bruno Schulz as one of the 20th century’s most interesting and imaginative writers. First brought to public light in the United States in the 1970s by Philip Roth, he inspired such prominent…
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Fast Forward Two Nazi-Looted Paintings Will Be Returned to Owner’s Heirs
Two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from their Jewish owners will be returned to their heirs in separate restitution deals. On Tuesday, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and Art Recovery International announced that the oil painting “Portrait of a Gentleman” by El Greco had been returned to the heirs of Viennese industrialist Julius…
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Fast Forward Nazi Refuge Discovered By Archeologists in Argentina
A team of archeologists and researchers discovered what they believe was a refuge for Nazis in an Argentinian forest, near the border with Paraguay. It is believed that the Nazis prepared the hideout during the first half of the 1940s as a place to flee to should World War II not go in their favor,…
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Fast Forward Germany Agrees To Return Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs
Germany agreed to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of its Jewish owner. Germany signed a restitution agreement for the painting “Two Riders on the Beach,” by Max Liebermann. The painting was discovered among hundreds of artworks in the apartment of the late German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt. The painting’s provenance was traced back…
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Fast Forward Australian Premier Tony Abbott Sorry for ‘Goebbels’ Remark
Australia’s prime minister publicly apologized for comparing the country’s opposition leader to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On Thursday, Tony Abbott said in a parliament meeting that Labor Party leader Bill Shorten was the “Dr. Goebbels of economic policy.” Abbott apologized on a radio interview on Friday. “I accept that in the context of history…
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