13.01.2014                      12.Schwat.5774

Rückgabe?:

Were Jews forced to sell medieval treasure to Hermann Goering?

$250m. collection at center of restitution dispute.

In November 1933, the mayor of Frankfurt – a devoted anti-Semite who sought the elimination of Jewish influence from the city – wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler asking him to acquire a treasure.
The treasure was a collection of stunning medieval artwork called the Guelph collection, known in German as Welfenschatz….

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