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The Nazis looted Europe's treasures. A Supreme Court ruling casts doubt on their return. msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Nazis looted Europe s treasures. A Supreme Court ruling casts doubt on their return. Yasmine Salam and Carlo Angerer and The Associated Press It was no ordinary art deal. The sale of a precious medieval collection by a group of tradesmen to the Prussian government in 1935 was notable not only for its treasured contents, but also for its participants. The sellers were Jewish, a fact that defined their fate in Nazi Germany and hangs over the transaction to this day. “They know they re under the gun,” Marc Masurovsky, a historian who specializes in plundered art during the Holocaust, said from his home in Washington. “The average position of Jews in Germany as of 1933 is nothing short of dangerous, perilous, fragile and precarious.” ....
Fight over medieval treasure highlights Germany's struggle to atone for its Nazi past msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Nazis looted Europe s treasures. A Supreme Court ruling casts doubt on their return. Yasmine Salam and Carlo Angerer and The Associated Press It was no ordinary art deal. The sale of a precious medieval collection by a group of tradesmen to the Prussian government in 1935 was notable not only for its treasured contents, but also for its participants. The sellers were Jewish, a fact that defined their fate in Nazi Germany and hangs over the transaction to this day. “They know they re under the gun,” Marc Masurovsky, a historian who specializes in plundered art during the Holocaust, said from his home in Washington. “The average position of Jews in Germany as of 1933 is nothing short of dangerous, perilous, fragile and precarious.” ....