[Daffynition]

· Donatello and Botticelli in list of 180,000 treasures · Inventory aimed mostly at Russia and Poland

[DB]

Sh!t happens when you start a war and lose...

[HHFi]

It could work. Invoking guilt has helped a lot of booty calls succeed before.

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[JParris]

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

[Joe Boucher]

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.

[Ditter]

NO!!!!

[Glenn]

What don’t they understand about:

“To the victors go the spoils”

[lonerepubinma]

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.

[Savage Beast]

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.

[sergeantdave]

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?

[Bender2]

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...

[struwwelpeter]

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.

[Little Ray]

Sorry, Germany. YOU LOST THE EFFIN’ WAR. When you a lose a war that completely, the winners get to loot you. All that stuff belongs to whoever has it now.

[Anticommie]

Germany issues catalogue of missing art works in push for return of war booty

What a joke, German Nazis robbed occupied countries during WW2, then Russkies came and robbed Germans and whatever was left in occupied countries.

LOL

[VOA]

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.

I suspect the Germans will find it hard-going...
trying to "guilt-trip" folks after killing something like
20-30 millions of Poles and Russians during WWII.

[skepsel]

Vae victis.

[MEGoody]

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.

Perhaps those 'treasures' should be sold and the money given to the Jews who suffered under Hitler.

[sanchmo]

Es tut mir leid, aber nein.

[Mountain Troll]

My sympathy is all that it should be under the circumstances. While I agree in principle that the items that are rightfully the property of the German people should be returned, it would be better for them to either quietly buy them back, or else let the matter drop.

The Twentieth Century in it’s entirety is a sleeping dog. Let it stay that way.