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Isoldeblue

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2. It's about time!! Damn!!

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:38 PM

Feb 2013

I remember reading about this many years ago, about survivors and their families trying to have returned what was rightfully theirs. Some things were family heirlooms that can never be replaced. It was wrong to take this long to finally give it back. It just was adding insult to injury, by not doing so. Shameful!!

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Finally libodem Feb 2013 #1

It's about time!! Damn!! Isoldeblue Feb 2013 #2

K&R ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #3

Reminds me of what happened to Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer. CTyankee Feb 2013 #4

Some do not feel justice was achieved in that case frazzled Feb 2013 #6

I'm sorry, but the Viennese have no room to complain about this. They were complicit with CTyankee Feb 2013 #8

I wasn't talking about the Viennese complaining ... frazzled Feb 2013 #9

The dear old lady who inherited that painting probably knew that Lauder would donate it. CTyankee Feb 2013 #10

That was only one of the five paintings recovered. The rest went to private owners. frazzled Feb 2013 #11

You knew a "Monument Man"? Wow! That must have been fabulous! CTyankee Feb 2013 #12

Naw, I just know his daughter frazzled Feb 2013 #14

I'd have to check that book again, but as I recall the inheritor, the old lady who died very CTyankee Feb 2013 #15

Hey, it only took 75 years frazzled Feb 2013 #5

Wow! That sounds like a fascinating read! DearHeart Feb 2013 #7

The Rape of Europa by Lynn Nichols is both a book and a subsequent PBS documentary CTyankee Feb 2013 #13

Thank you so much for the info! It's so much easier for a trip to the library or bookstore DearHeart Feb 2013 #17

well, either thank you or I'm sorry...it's a burden but a gift at the same time. I feel it, too... CTyankee Feb 2013 #18

It's definitely Thank You! DearHeart Feb 2013 #19

Bout time! MoonRiver Feb 2013 #16