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tv   The Nazi Art Heist  Deutsche Welle  May 12, 2024 4:30pm-4:59pm CEST

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of course we say there about never getting on every weekend on dw the, [000:00:00;00] the kingdom of children's bedding, a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold freight that i'm in. i'm going what's going twice, going 3 times from underwear to valuable. everything was sung doth. nazis used options to generate millions replenished a war chest, hunt for bonbons, which let no stuck on to global. show the signal from this go home. this light
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think it was an open secret to show that everything here which was the jewish property, was sold with a club like auction in defend people could figure out that's their real owners, hadn't gone on a holiday or to a health resort. bob and the items belong to jews in the knots, who said forced to flee the country with their belongings. packed in so quoted lift fence, they hope to build a new loss in exile. but off to the world again. very few of these crates went to their own is here in hamburg, southwest hall, the thousands of crates were stranded from all over the german rush, the nazis confiscated them and auctioned off the contents codes that were meant for shipment. when tons of the honda in raymond, to most of the stone objects, a still missing
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the to capture, the tribal is one of a few 100 providence researches in germany. she's determined to result the case of nazi losing. once referral, true gym and fashion. the ritual expect event, meticulous. been an option that's a step down to $3000.00 households. were auction dot com or more frustrating and just under $1000.00 more were auctioned off and paid in 1st i got phones and then that makes a total of $4000.00 complete household whose contents were auctioned. on strike of funds, and it's easy to see that this amounts to millions of individual items. i'll check the actual tribal searches for clues. she's on a mission for justice and the families already had
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a hard time leaving their homeland and once they arrived overseas, for instance, in america, they waited for their belongings to arrive and nothing time. the major goal is to eventually return these objects to their families and from the and thoughtful can a difficult task and one that the defendants of the families of loan being hoping for mostly in vain. the injustice suffered by the cook family 80 years ago is still in the grandson's mind. today. we're going to be interested in where these objects would. where did my grandparents belongs end up and on that process. these questions don't get a moment kind of willis. he hopes clinicals research provides answers. hello, hello. good morning. it's nice to see, you know, so it's, it's nice to meet with such a symphonic place. oh yeah. they could use grandparents belongings,
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which included the valuable odd, collect and we're also sold in a so called lift fans is the how many lift vans and crates that your family have as we should buy it for. i know if one big ones are then one smaller one lesson on i'm cuz that's what i should have been too cheap . so i the nazis rose to power in 1933. although hitting his plans for extermination were made clear from the stones . there was still a window of opportunity for the jewish population to leave the country. those who predicted what was coming and could afford to fled abroad. but in 1941, that window closed difficult. anyone who made it out of germany belief they would be re united with their belongings,
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provided they had paid transport in advance. the costs were meant that many of the crates never reach their owners the so i'm not ready to see you. then it was of course, the goal of the national socialists not only to the course of the jewish minority out of the country conflict, but also to completely disenfranchise and plunder them financially. and in that respect, respect, there was little incentive to ship them their property in the 1st place to know the head. so she, because family came from the spot in the old could top to took an early interest in not which she bought together with his wife. he died 1933 east children's flight to london, soon to be joined by their mother in law positions which included the family's odd collection which followed by way of handbook southwest hall. the that was the promise that they never made it to london. and 1941 had boxes were confiscations, photos of memories,
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documents of lights worth of objects disappeared. so 1st a month, in the end, everything was taken from the doctor's showing that his criminal, terrible, foolish. i don't really know where it's bad enough to describe this in the hub, is that the stuff, the confiscation goods that women to shipping an option to move even use papers, advertised opportunities to purchase cheap foods. i'm call for the affordable gramaphone and oil painting circuit. 175056 books. here in the handbook states, archives kitchen. clive of meticulously searches through option rig quotes.
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the nonsense for good bookkeeping gets done. here we go on to an object. the individual contents of a live band were neatly listed here. and, and you always had the name of the object, understand the the name and the name of the person who bought it. it so much here. for example, it's the museum. if that's knology and what was offered for the object or group of items in question, and it goes on here page by page. this done here. from say, art object needs to books. everything was more or less sort of shines like the bed linen and the bed frame, but special on cookware and so on costco. so once a vice research is funded by the gym and most of the foundation which he seeks to establishes who was abrupt, who was the behind. and where are the items now, from beginning for lesson, from the beginning of an object journey. because when it left its owners house with the moving company to the moment, it was stored with the bailiff tact was a drop of auctioning it off wine because it's so it's you and it basically listens who bought what, okay,
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and for how much gum so that we get an overview of the list of their bhaskar cove talk to the fuse, where they private persons were they the dealers feedback as well and, and what happened to the objects and after that was checked and then vide helps us yet. a much like a detective caution client will get this all the clues in atlanta based on the student gun some flu time. and from these puzzle pieces, i think we can trace the task of a lift van from its starting point, or leaving the house as to which point of sales and can homburg now 14 tribal works is a provenance research here with the gym and maritime museum in 3 and a half and the job is to find out was that the items in the museums collection were quad,
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legally the nazis also auctioned off personal effects from jewish households here in graham. and that's how club and 1st became aware of this injustice a tablet as me off the phone that's it's dramatically that this whole topic of jewish microns property being auctioned off in freeman and homework number, where we've been dealt with and just confesses, ms. bravo. who bought which items that these auction know a forced validation to exist has never been researched. because even though it were all in the document and not from d, as in papa. many people attended the options, not just dealers in private individuals, but also numerous handbook museums. today they a cooperation with cotton climes research. for example, the constant lock museums bought
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a paintings that option and is now looking for the rightful owners and as the comb vanna, to distrust the dream, of course, is that this room will eventually be empty. that we can allocate all these items to their former owners. and their rightful errors and return nothing can the, this man's grandparents gilligan law shall come from the spot and also own valuable paintings which has never been returned. his family inquired about the missing items early on. at 1st they were told they had been in sooner. i said, during foaming license, they was stumped because there were no records but the grandson consisted and managed to find clues, leading to a painting, once owned by his family boss with puppies. by know, the size of definitely dollars, individual group just set everything in motion again and raise doubts that the
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painting so actually disappeared or had been destroyed by fire, pressure rooms and understood phones and they must actually still exist somewhere else. i just don't know for room for exist you in your honda plus sheets key is from the in the family est. it was also prompted. the husband hammond, who was open to department store in berlin, had left his fortune to his wife. the loving family had bought pieces by 6 months lieberman brock and schmidt, brooklyn's artists who were doing museums today. the villa in darling was taken over by the national socialists with a frank journalist loyal to the right. you'll have to push it sky, sol, what was coming and fled to los angeles in the us site. she hope the contents of the household would fine,
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except they never arrived. her property was sold off in handbook and an option that lasted 3 days. the homeless sale, 1500 times, the actual tribal is still amazed by this case today. the let's come, no, i to people came from berlin from hanover to buy it this auction and they weren't ordinary people. they were people who had been bombed out. they were traitors who turned a profit from buying these objects cheaply. i'm also, and a 1st i go home of to the was, you'll, hon associates key wanted to print the back. she had photos to prove what belong to her. and what would be looted by the nazis, but only a few items. if a return label is researching the case,
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she's painstakingly reconstructing the old chips journeys and the hopes of finally sold in this case of theft. this is not a commission job. it's about jim and kills and justice in parking and food on this side of pictures and show as a furniture from johan up the should skis. how was the corresponding item number in the auction record and put the 2 into them often flushed idols portable coin, much my bill is i'm of now. they're even complete shots of the living rooms. all object is we also fund objects that worse bond with the auction record. ios portable quite a bit of it. a few and clicking on that 9. let's take a look at this 11. 09 sign. what would it be? an interview, done layout. cool. not a bit of my a crown was bought by maya for 760 like small distances, price lock set for the depth of the price was estimated at 200. this is done with,
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with to so that what has been this liam here? with the help of the lawyer, you'll have to push it ski managed to identify pushy to bargain hunters. they all denied any responsibility. and oh gosh, i don't sophistic. my client does not recognize a duty of restitution. they had to do. she acquired all items in question here in the auto at an auction held by the onboard bailiffs office without having the slightest idea they might be chosen property. and this was item 100 credit sheet. basically every file size, same thing you haven't, i have no more records on special. you're not aware of that. you have, we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on the feel. the files of the restitution proceedings are stored here in the attic of
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what is now the handbook district court. you have the new tie who research has them . he wanted to know how the state pays towards the injured policies and came across the policies c case. guess about 10 security numbers on this because especially if its file with a big strap around it, it must have to open it when done. and then these photos of the state in berlin with these incredible artworks jumped out, took me glorious and close to it. was an astonishing fine technicians who perfectly cuz that's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of their property here using the phone images. it took a few photographs, their furniture moved, but it was just so exception. but i had to look into it sometime cool. so victims including your honda sheets key, there's more stakes and just the possessions, the uncomfortable american just to tell it was important to the fix was that they not only got the property back, but the german courts also acknowledged that they had wrong them in. isn't that doesn't always happen because the courts were more concerned with contracts sca sums of money into like a government issued for tag. oh my god gave it to very close scrutiny and
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regulation the quote that i think with us in 1965 up to 17 years, you'll have to push it ski was compensated by the federal republic of germany with 906 out on 1st entrust the i'm signed if he's interested in his family history and what happened to his grandparents, especially to his grandmother was more to one of hearts. it's not true. he asks himself, is the where have all these objects? golf is on child of to look at the photos from that time, told the witness great villain dollar evict these which was furnished with beautiful objects of artem. oscar started. and where has all this family history gone? does it come from? you didn't go she to complete a lifetime of pain and loss. this chinese put ahead was a quad in paris,
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an auctioned off by the national socialists here on the india. and here we have it . i talk one old head items 2 and 666 acquired by the museum of acknowledging, according to the school board, 5 from from the bid was 500 hikes small. got them not to show. and there's also an invoice to the museum of phonology about him called but later in the postwar period, during the restitution negotiations behind them didn't comp for this head was apparently lost on and thus lockwood on them. that was probably due to a clerical error in the restitution records of 2012 where it was listed as an old hard to find a notary. so when they looked through the record, because they couldn't find the head and didn't conference before, they didn't have but the head didn't actually disappear. at the end of 2020, it showed up on display in the form of museum as a technology and handbook now named monk.
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it should been on loosely stored in addition to the 80 years until it was broken out for an arctic suspicion. the tribal scene for the 1st time to beautiful as because i think to be honest, i imagined it would be much smaller. it's great to finally see it in real life. and not just in picture to the now the long las boot ahead will finally be returned to your hand. up for a sheet skis is the, the museum was a very familiar with the name. so should ski, because it has already returned 6 objects to its own off to the war, but not the boat to hit the
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chip from katya in climb trees and museums attention to it. this con, plus the end of the object. it can happen that in these large depos objects, it for a very long time before they are brought in for a project. that's the way it works in big museums. we all wish we could simply process it ourselves, but that's and illusions. and so as it would take too much time, it's a lifelong task in self go. so it will cease to dish flu. you see, i don't buy that. no, it's an excuse. you want to slip over the daughter of the federal republic of germany committed to caring out this research and the washington declaration. and so it's the responsibility of the state, including the cultural senator in hamburg, was in to ensure that they are adequate resources. also providence research. social is a long way committed to this list and must honor this commitment to the stone you should put face to move. i'm just the boat ahead was tracked down thanks to the joint
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efforts of caution chronicle and mock. it's the fitness piece and tribals research projects to be returned. tech job. this is conditions that the impossible can be made possible. obviously we can track down the looted belongings and we covered them for thousands of families and people years are not mentioned. so click on support you on this and we're lucky here that mark is a public institution group. so it is possible to find these items on some sources and workers, which would probably be much more difficult to do if they were in private household size and befriended online should be up online. but this is the case of the missing e mail. know the painting and was a cock family. the grandson painstakingly searches for more clues, a passed through many hands off to being bought by casualties as auction.
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christie's the auction house also tried to sell it in vain. it was delivered to my gallery in keel. eventually it was sold by austria to france, but nobody will say who has it now when hunting and there's, there's the impression that people are stonewalling. this information is not being laid out in the table. kind of there is no transparency. whereas they only sharing this information after 4 or 56 inquiries, one at the right away, like the know the wasn't the only work in the cost families collection. it also includes the author of valuable paintings such as a yep, lensky, a clay, a role. today they a certain that all of these artworks will have to be honest estrada from the historical research institute. fax and files is trying to reconstruct the cruise
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from umus paintings from the cops. estates, the kill gallery claims that it no longer has any documents that could shed much on the matcher. as mine off how, from my experience with our dealer archives, i can't imagine that they threw away all their documents in 1980 and they don't have them anymore. as an every, our dealer knows that documentation is the be all and end all of their business. so you always know what you had the who you got it from and who you sold it to month by colstat. do to yeah. that's fine. just make get tired of things or why aren't they telling the truth and you want to go through to the end and dustless talking to why are they trying to mislead us and to the time they shouldn't voice the suggest that the people involved knew that there was something wrong with how the painting had to be in acquire testing. don't touch actually show us, but that the piece had been stolen. its are interesting to this day, most of the positions belong to the expelled jewish community,
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a missing minions of all, checks, everything that was due to them that they had hoped to take wisdom to begin. the new lives was sold off at options when anyone could get the hands on them. it's a suspicion task. libel is working her way through mountains of files to funds and names of injured parties. as it gets finished after a little over a year of looking on this list all but ive regions the letter and let me just a boost of it in and they'll come, doesn't own goofy so far this. that's approximately 121700 names of victims from hom, board from procedures. no, some walk my candy unless i get a hold of them together like this. and yeah, you can see i have completed just over half of the list and come on just as an investment the so my guess would be there's about $2700.00 names in total. and then the lucid prophecy and the names of the victims will be published in
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a dasa base. only then can the owners and there is a certain times where has the cox out collection gone? the grand son will keep searching as long as he can drop. bmw is off then laguna to one test. initially, remember i said to myself who a different generation doesn't do this anymore. if i don't at least try to get to the bottom of this, nothing will happen. this chapter of history will be buried forever. will vanish into oblivion, which is on fire, is doing good fresh water up the lights should search for justice catch and climb of what give up trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized,
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