"Not when you eliminate the third, fifth and sixth letters, then it's 'Red's Digest', Comrade!"
Posted on 06/05/2010 8:34:31 AM PDT by jimbo123
Three 16th century oil paintings that have been hanging in William Randolph Hearst's famous castle at San Simeon belonged to a Jewish couple who were forced to give them up during the Nazi reign in Germany, authorities said Tuesday.
Two of the three paintings, visible to guests and millions of tourists at Hearst Castle since 1935, will be returned Friday to the heirs of the rightful owners, both of whom died during the war, one in the death camp at Auschwitz.
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Absurd stretch trying to tie Hitler’s looting of the jews to the Hearst art collection to Thomas. Hearst, Henry Ford, Joe Kennedy, and the rest are long gone.
Helen’s own jew hatred and how it has flavored her reporting the last ten years is the story. Anything else is just a distraction in her favor.
Hearst’s collaboration with Nazis and Hitler is not a distraction in Helen’s favor. It is an insight into why Hearst will not fire Helen. Nazi collaboration apologism is in the DNA of the corporation. It’s a shame you’re trying to pretend it didn’t happen.
that is a helluva reach there jimbo..lol
I think safe to say not of William Randolph Hearst MALE Hollywood friends wouldn’t sleep with her
Not even Fatty Arkbuckle LOL!
"Not when you eliminate the third, fifth and sixth letters, then it's 'Red's Digest', Comrade!"
Hearst agents bought the paintings. Whether or not they knew of the story behind them I don't know, but it's less likely that William Randolph Hearst did himself.
When the paintings were returned they were the property of the state of California which now owns the castle. If anti-Semitism were somehow in the DNA, the current governor might not have returned them.
Now:
Hearst:
Started out in early 30s pro-Nazi because he loathed the Reds more than anything and unlike the revisionism some here indulge in Nazis were seen then as a counter to Reds in Europe.
After Kristallnacht, Hearst abruptly changed course and supported anti-Nazis and was very vocal about the plight of the Jews in Europe.
“When news of the mass murder of Europe’s Jews began reaching the United States in 1941-1942, the Hearst newspaper chain gave it prominent coverage - by contrast with newspapers such as The New York Times, which routinely confined it to the back pages (as Prof. Laurel Leff documented in her definitive study, Buried by ‘The Times’).
In 1943, Hearst served as an honorary chairman of the Emergency Conference to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which was organized by the activist Bergson Group to demonstrate that rescue was possible - in contrast to the Roosevelt administration’s claim that the only way to rescue the Jews was to win the war.
When the Bergson group in late 1943 initiated a congressional resolution urging FDR to create a government agency to rescue Jewish refugees, Hearst directed his newspaper chain to promote the resolution and he personally authored signed editorials endorsing it. One declared: “Remember, Americans, this is not a Jewish problem. It is a human problem.”
“Hearst was the only newspaper owner who supported us without any qualifications or reservations,” Samuel Merlin, a leader of the Bergson Group, recalled in a postwar interview. ”
All his papers. He gave us pages after pages free. He gave us the whole editorial page - Hearst himself. He gave orders to print our material.”
The group’s leader, Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), noted that he and his colleagues endured some criticism because of their relationship with Hearst. “We were even attacked as ‘fascists’ because we approached William Randolph Hearst several times,” he recalled. But the Bergsonites were not dissuaded. “What right did we have to decide who should save the Jews?” Bergson asked rhetorically. “For God’s sake, we would go to anybody. I mean, would we need a rabbi to say ‘Save the Jews’? We were delighted that we got Hearst to say ‘Save the Jews.’”
The support of Hearst’s 34 newspapers gave the congressional resolution an important boost, helped keep the refugee issue in the public eye, and focused negative attention on the Roosevelt administration’s opposition to rescue action.
By early 1944, the combined pressure from Congress, the Bergson Group and the Treasury Department convinced FDR to establish the War Refugee Board, a government agency devoted to rescuing Jews from Hitler. During the last 15 months of the war, the board played a major role in the rescue of an estimated 200,000 Jews.
In the minds of many Americans, William Randolph Hearst will be forever associated with the greedy and dishonest main character in the 1941 film, Citizen Kane.
But whatever his unflattering traits, the real life Hearst had other qualities as well, including genuine compassion for the persecuted Jews of Europe and a determination to help rescue them from the Holocaust.
Rafael Medoff is director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a US Response to the Holocaust. and author of and Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust.”
Hearst did not know the paintings were stolen from the Oppenheimers when he bought them at auction.
Like I said...this assumption Hearst are Nazis...especially today is ridiculous. They will likely not fire Helen because she like them are TODAY leftists...imagine a time when a media giant was anti-leftist?...hard to believe now
The Hearst Csstle isn’t owned by the Hearst Corp. The family donated it to the state of California, and it has been a state park for over 50 years.
Jewish Virtual Library-Pre-1948 Maps
Just asking...
Every country in the world, including the USA, confiscates property and sells it. If Herst bought these paintings in 1935, he bought them from a legitimately recognized government.
The NAZIs lost the war, and that was a very good thing, but if there were any justice in the world, we would be prosecuting people who bought things from the Communists as well. They committed crimes every bit as bad as the NAZI regime, if not worse.
TRUE.
With the family’s right to use a part of it IIRC.
You can’t put this accident on Hearst, he lost the castle long before that ‘art’ found it’s way to the State of California.
I am supposing the owners of the art mentioned in the article were not clever or lucky enough to get out in '33. By '35 the US was no longer as accepting of Jewish refugees from Germany (thanks, FDR) and the Nazis had also tightened things up, deciding apparently it was preferable to isolate, humiliate, rob, and kill Jews rather than letting them leave.
The guy I'm talking about, by the way, was named Otto (I won't include the family name) and he changed it to Jack when, in a packed office in Manhattan three days after Pearl Harbor, the recruiting sergeant told him "there ain't no Otto's in the US Army". He later on was pushed through OCS, and became an intelligence officer with Third Army on Patton's staff. He had the photos to back up his story and at around 5'4" seeing one of him in line having his hand shaken by "Old Blood and Guts" at 6'4" is an image I will never forget.
Hearst bet big on Hitler and knew what was Hitler was doing to the Jews in 1934 and even talked to him about it.
Yet Hearst continued to collaborate with Hitler and the Nazis with propaganda and access to his media empire for many years later.
It’s not surprising the Hearst would run away from his friend Hitler in the early 40’s after the death camps were running at full speed.
I thought Israel came about because of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 but that it wasn’t enforced completely until after WWII?
Don’t forget that they began rouding up and forcing into ghettos during the early years. If someone was forced from their home likely they would not be able to take the art with them at the time of removal.
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