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tv   The Nazi Art Heist  Deutsche Welle  January 4, 2024 8:30pm-9:01pm CET

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the trouble to fix the meals culture identity meant, let's say together parts of our community life on the research is now on the the can the children's bedding a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold drain cuz i'm in. i'm going what's going twice, going 3 times from underwear to valuable. everything was sung, gulf knots is used. options to generate millions replenished a war chest, hunt for bonds in which let know stuff on to global showed us as an openness go
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home this well i 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 loaners, hadn't gone on a holiday or to a health resort verb and the items belong to jews in the nazis had forced to flee the country with their belongings. putting so cold lift fence, they hope to build a new loss in exile, but off to the world again. very few of these crates went to the owners. here in hamburg, southwest hall, the thousands of crates were stranded from all over the german rush, the nazis confiscated them an option of the contents codes that were meant to shipment. when tons of, of how much improvement to most of the stone objects. a still missing the,
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[000:00:00;00] the cultural tribal is one of the few 100 providence researches in germany. she's determined to result the case of nazi losing. once referral, true gym and fashion they ritual expect vin, meticulous then an action that's a step down to $3000.00 households were auctioned off and 100 or more frustrated. and just under $1000.00 more were auctioned off and paid in fresh i got funding that me, it's a total of $4000.00 complete households 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 libel searches for clues. she's on emissions for
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justice. from you, the families already had a hard time leaving their homeland and once they arrived overseas, for instance in america, they waited for their belongings to arrive and nothing came. the major goal is to eventually return these objects to their families and from the info took him 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 and doctors on that process. these questions don't come on. most of these kind of willis. he hopes client pals research provides answers. hello, hello. good morning. it's nice to see, you know, so it's,
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it's nice to meet with such a symphonic place. oh yeah. then could, to his grandparents belongings, which included the valuable art collection, were also sold in a so called lift fans. this is how many lift vans and crates that your family have. you should buy it for. i know one big ones or then one smaller one lesson. oh yeah i'm cuz that's what i should have been too cheap. so i the nazis rose to pallet in 1933. the witness plans for extermination were made clear from the stalls that 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 close difficult. anyone who made the house of germany believe they would be re united with their
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belongings, provided they had paid for transport in advance. the costs were meant, but many of the crates never reach their owners. i saw an opportunity to see you then it was of course the goal of the national socialists not only took the course of the jewish minority out of the country conflict, but also to completely distinguish franchise and plundered them financially. and in that respect, respect, there was little incentive to ship them their property in the 1st place and not the head. so she called family came from the spot in the old conductor, took an early interest in not which she bought together with his wife. he died 1933 . he's children 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 handling southwest hall. but that was the promise that they never made it to london. in 1941 had boxes for confiscations, photos of memories,
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documents as its worth of objects disappeared. so full of money in the end, everything was taken from the doctor is showing that his criminal, terrible foolish. i don't really know where it's bad enough to describe us in the hub is the custodial confiscation goods that we meant to shipping an auction to them off 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 state archives, kitchen club will meticulously searches through option rig quotes. the
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nonsense record keeping keeps tend to so here we go on and objects the individual contents of a live band or neatly listed here. this is and, and you always had the name of the object, understand this, the name and the name of the person who bought it from us here. for example. it's the museum a phonology and what was offered for the object or group of items and question. and it goes on here page by page, this done here from say, art object to book. everything was more or less sort insurance like the bed linen and the bed frame, the special on cookware and so on costco. so it's a viable research is funded by the gym and last out foundation. what she seeks to establishes, who was abrupt, who was the behind, and where are the items now, from beginning from for lesson, from the beginning of an objects journey. the cache when it left its owners house with the moving company to the moment it was stored with the bailiff. tact was
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a job of auctioning it off. langley's, so it's here and it basically listens who bought what, okay, 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 dealers feedback as well and, and what happened to the objects and after that check been done by top us yet. much like a detective catch from clive. we'll get this over clues in a database. and the student got some flu time and from these puzzle pieces, i think we can trace the task of a lift fan from its starting point or leaving the house as to at the point of sales and, and homburg now for team pliable works is a provenance research here with the gym and maritime museum in 3 and a half. and the
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job is to find out was that the items in the museums collection were quad, legally the nazis also auctioned off personal effects from jewish households here in graham. and that's how club and so this became aware of this injustice to stop by as me off the phone that's it struck me that this whole topic of jewish microns property being auctioned off in freeman and homework and has a number where we've been dealt with. and just confesses, ms. bravo, who bought which items that these auction know a forced validation gigs. this has never been researched because even though it were all in the document and not from days and fail for many people attended the options not just deal as in private individuals, but also numerous handbook, museums. today they a cooperation with cultural classes research, for example, installer ok, museums bought
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a paintings at auction and is now looking for the rightful owners. and as the calm vanity, just as 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. return. nothing can the, this man's grandparents guild and loss account 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 incineration during bombing license. they was stumped because they would no records but the grandson persisted and manage to find kids leading to a painting once, owned by his family boss with puppies, by know the eyes of delford on this individual group to set everything in motion. again,
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the main stance that the paintings of actually disappeared or had been destroyed by fire showings and understood phones and they most actually still exist somewhere else to do stuff. no room for exist. young person, you a 100 plus you escape is from the in the family est. it was also prompted the husband hammond, who, which opened a department store in berlin had left his fortune to his wife. the loving family had bought pieces by beckman lieberman brock and schmidt, brooklyn's artists who were doing museums today. the villa in darling was taken over by the national socialists, where they trained journalists 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. how much fail? 1500 times the patrick tribal is still amazed by this case today. it's coming to 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 traders who turned a profit from buying these objects cheaply. i'm also in the 1st i go home of to the, was your hon associates key wanted to print the back. she had photos to prove what belonged to her. and both would be looted by the nazis, but only
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a few items would ever return to the tribal is researching the case. she's painstakingly reconstructing the old chicks jennings 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 putting on food on this side of pictures shows the furniture from your honda pursuits. keep hell with the corresponding item number in the auction record and put it to huntsville. often flushed. idols. punctual coin. much ma'am bill? this is i'm of now they're even complete shots of the living rooms. all object is we also find objects that we respond with the auction record. ios portable quite a bit over the few and clicking on that 9. let's take a look at this 11. 09, fine, what would it be? an an impact on layout? cool. not a bit of my a crown was bought by maya for 760 hide small distances,
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price lock, set for the depth of the price was estimated at 200. this is done with, 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 sushi 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. i mean auto at an auction held by the onboard bailiffs office without having the slightest idea they might be chosen property. and this was i can 200 credit sheet. basically every file size, same thing you have, i have no more records on special. you're not aware of the go have, we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on
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the feel. the files of the rest attrition proceedings are stored here in the attic of what is now the handbook district court. you have a new title, research has them. you wanted to know how the state pays towards the injured policies and came across the policies sky case, guess what, types of things, and if it's something that's because, especially if it's the file with a big strap around it, it must, i might have to open it when done, and then these photos of the state in berlin with these incredible artworks jumped out of me. that obvious and close to it was an astonishing find technicians who part because that's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of their properties and fun images. it took a few photographs of their furniture, move it. it was just so exceptional, but i had to look into it some time. so victims including johan associates, ski, there's more stakes than just the possessions unconditional in math. and if you could tell, it was important to to fix those. but they not only got the property back when 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
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money in the lifestyle examines issued for tag. oh my god gave it away to close scrutiny and regulation. the quote, 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 960000 torch marks on condition that she truck also declined a laughable sum compared to the original value of her estate finish for p as in file. it was astonishing to me was that the states then actually stepped into the show. the death of private individuals was repaired. but the states won this this way of political forward. that was a political decision in order to prevent the link, the social discourse edge of golf we estimate was that there are about $100000.00 buyers in hamburg alone. that's not just a view, doesn't people from some small french group was to be able to give you what would have happened. this is active discourse that actually taking the language and
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listen to this day. many paintings from your hand. a precious gets processed collection a classified as lost and continues to search for them with the help of a little some in munich is concerned with move and then finding out and fresh interest. and so, and if he's interested in his family history and what happened to his grandparents especially to his grandmother was more to one of hearts is not to he asks himself is the where have all these objects? golf is on child of to look at the photos from that time to turn the venice 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
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was a quad in paris, an auctioned off by the national socialists and the images of and here we have that . i talk one old head items 16626, acquired by the museum of acknowledging, according to the school board, 5 from from the bid was 505 small got them. and that's the issue. 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 cope with his head was apparently lost on and thus lockwood on them. that was probably due to a clerical error in the rest of teaching records of 2012 where it was listed as an old hodge of london. so when they looked through the record, they couldn't find the head and didn't quite finish the phone and had the head didn't actually disappear. at the end of 2020, it showed up on display in the form of museum as
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a technology and handbook now named monk. it should be 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. sure. it's great to finally see it in real life and not just in picture to the now the long, low speed ahead will finally be returned to your hand up the sheets skis is the the museum was a very familiar with the name, so should ski because it had already returned 6 objects to its own off to the war, but not the boat ahead.
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the chip from cotton 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 itself. it will cease to dish. you see, i don't find that. it's an excuse when a slip of adults with 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 and hamburg, was in to ensure that they are adequate resources. also, providence research option. first of all, they committed to this list and must honor this commit stone. these are put,
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fix them with. i noticed the board ahead was tracked down thanks to the joint efforts of caution chronicle and mock. it's the fittest piece and titles research projects to be returned. hi john, this is alicia list with the impossible can be made possible. obviously we can track down the looted belongings and we covered them for thousands of families and people here and on mentions for quick ones to put you on this. and we're lucky here that mark is a public institution slip to. 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 site and was trying to relax, fee of online. but this is the case of the missing email. know the painting owned by the cop family. the grandson painstakingly searches for more clues.
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it passed through many hands off to being port my casualty. last auction christy's the auction house also tried to sell it in vain. it was delivered to it by a gallery in keel. eventually it was sold by austria to france. but nobody will say who has it now when hunting and hold the stairs, the impression that people are stonewalling. this information is not being laid out in the table and there is no transparency. whereas they only sharing this information after 4 or 56 inquiries, one, not the right away slash the know the wasn't the only work in the cost family's collection. it also increases off of valuable paintings such as a yep, lensky, a clay, a role today by a certain that all of these artworks will just be honest. estrada from the
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historical research institute. fax and files is trying to reconstruct the cruise from umus paintings from the cups the states that the keel 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, 2 months my calls tap due to yeah. but i just make get tired of things or why aren't they telling the truth and you're able to get through to the end and doesn't just starting 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 touching, don't touch actually show us, but that the piece had been stolen that's are linked to this day. most of the
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positions belong to the expelled jewish community. a missing visions 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 where anyone could get the hands on them. it's a suspend 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 i've read the letter and shift a boost of an unusual come. doesn't oversee our so far. this is that's approximately total $1700.00 names of victims from hom, board from the swedish north homework. mackenzie, i must 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
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or the lucid prophecy and the names of the victims will be published in a docile vice. only then can the owners and there is a certain times where has the cox art collection gone? the grandson will keep searching as long as he can shop here and is often laguna to one test. initially i'm i said to myself who if a generation doesn't do this anymore? if i don't at least try to get to the bottom of this, nothing will happen. for this chapter, if history will be buried forever, will vanish into oblivion, which is on fire, is doing good and flesh would up the lights, would search for justice catch them club will work, give up, trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized,
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