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Germany issues catalogue of missing art works in push for return of war booty
The Guardian ^
| Thursday August 2, 2007
| Kate Connolly
Posted on 08/02/2007 4:53:33 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
Sh!t happens when you start a war and lose...
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posted on
08/02/2007 4:57:33 AM PDT
by
DB
To: Daffynition
It could work. Invoking guilt has helped a lot of booty calls succeed before.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:02:11 AM PDT
by
HHFi
To: DB
Next they'll want the USCG Eagle back.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:07:42 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: Daffynition
Did the Germans include artwork they "picked up" after 1939 as part of their missing cultural heritage? Or is that part of their art history swept under the rug like a chair sized dustball.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:09:42 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: HHFi
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:10:17 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: Daffynition
The sad thing is, there will be/are tree hugging, bleeding hearts that will give this serious debate in europe, the beloved united nations and even our hallowed halls of congress.
JWP
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:17:42 AM PDT
by
JParris
To: Daffynition
And what about ALL the countless art and historical treasures stolen by Germans during BOTH world wars?
You know all the stuff in Argentina and Brazil.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:20:39 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:23:07 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: DB
This takes stones after all the plundering they did, including their bags of gold fillings they had hidden in Swiss banks.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:25:02 AM PDT
by
gerryk
To: Daffynition
What don’t they understand about:
“To the victors go the spoils”
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:26:16 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: Daffynition
heeeeyyy brillant idea :)
hand over that ship will ya !
(you will always remmeber this as the day you almost...)
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:26:50 AM PDT
by
Rummenigge
(there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
To: KarlInOhio
Some of it was undoubtedly acquired from Jews at fire sale prices as the cost of obtaining an exit visa.
If only the Germans were half as conscientious about restoring property plundered from Jews.
To: KarlInOhio
Not to mention the works that the Nazis burned as “degenerate”.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:29:43 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: gerryk
Yes.
I think I’d simply say sorry and hope life moves on...
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:30:46 AM PDT
by
DB
To: Daffynition
I remember many years ago helping my Boss move his family down to Florida. When we arrived we stayed at his Mother in-laws house. It was a virtual museum filled with every kind of art work you could imagine. Her deceased husband was a Military Governor in Germany after the war and sent truck loads of stuff back home.
To: Daffynition
I love Germany and the German people. I have lived there. Contemporary Germans have tried valiantly to compensate for the evils of the past.
However, it seems logical to me that the Poles and Russians would claim the treasures as partial compensation for the Nazi attacks on Poland and Russia.
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:55:00 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
To: Daffynition
It’s rumored that American GIs occupying Germany helped themselves to a few souveniers.
No, I don’t recall how that 16th century German coat-of-arms got onto my den wall. I think I picked it up at a flea market sale back in ‘56. Thought it would make a great tray for serving the kids lemonade on hot summer days. A German coat-of-arms, you say? Noooo, you mean that writing on the back is German, not Japanese? Well, how about that...the world is still full of surprises after all these years. Care for some lemonade?
To: Daffynition; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Auntbee; Shimmer128; ...
Re:
German cultural institutions have issued a catalogue detailing thousands of objects of art that disappeared from Berlin at the end of the second world war, in the hope of pricking the conscience of governments to return them. The detailed inventory, which one critic said read like a "book of mourning" for lost German artefacts... If we gathered a full listing of the six to twelve million Jews, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, disabled & mentally ill people, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholic Poles, and political prisoners murdered in German POW, Concentration and Extermination Camps from 1934 to 1945, who would return them? To where?
I do not have any compassion for lost German art objects at the close of World, War Two...
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posted on
08/02/2007 6:05:28 AM PDT
by
Bender2
(A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
To: Daffynition
I don’t think the Pushkin galleries and Tretyakov museum are ready to part with their collections, but Germany can have my chunk of the Berlin wall back if they ask nicely.
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