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In reply to the discussion: Nazi Victim’s Family Told to Return Artifact [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)46. If it's about returning it to the rightful owners
it SHOULD go back to Iraq. Sending it back to Germany is saying it was right for the Germans to spirit it out of Iraq(we can assume that it didn't get to Germany by legitimate means, given the Europeans and how they usually took the artifacts of other countries). It was theft that the artifact was IN Germany, for God's sake.
And I said I didn't really mean it about the face melt thing..but still, it's not honorable for Germany, of all places to demand the artifact back, OR to demand it from the person who took it. For them to do that is to essentially say that what this man did in stealing the piece from a dishonorable regime is worse than the Holocaust itself.
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I agree: it belongs in Iraq from where it was origionaly looted .... I mean 'collected'.
marble falls
Jun 2012
#11
I'm not claiming to be Walt Whitman, but I reserve the right to contradict myself from time to time.
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2012
#50
So is saying, as that poster was saying that "it's property theft and that's all that matters".
Ken Burch
Jun 2012
#53
And if they'd asked the Flamenbaums politely and respecfully, with an acknowledgment
Ken Burch
Jun 2012
#68
The bad behavior was the Ottomans stealing the damn thing from the Assyrians in the first place.
Ken Burch
Jun 2012
#73
"my family was put into camps, starved & murdered... and all I got was this lousy gold tablet"
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2012
#3
According to the article, the artifact was found in Iraq. Wasn't it stealing for the Germans
1monster
Jun 2012
#6
How they knew is immaterial. What is material is if the item was stolen from the museam then it
cstanleytech
Jun 2012
#9
If I were the family, I'd pull a PR stunt that would probably get them in the good graces of
zbdent
Jun 2012
#10
Why does the first world get to decide who is stable enough to return mational treasures or have ...
marble falls
Jun 2012
#29
Very well put, thank you for such a well written post! now for my 2 cents in response to subject.
AmericanGI
Jun 2012
#58
I agree that the issue of his being a Holocaust survivor is irrelevant to the case.
Prometheus Bound
Jun 2012
#90