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tv   The Nazi Art Heist  Deutsche Welle  May 12, 2024 5:30am-6:00am CEST

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all right, we say they're about never giving up every weekend on dw, the, [000:00:00;00] the can the children's bedding, a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold freight of i'm going to going what's going twice, going 3 times from underway to valuable. everything was sung dolph. nazis used options to generate millions replenished a war chest, hunt for bonbons, which let know stuck on to global showed us as an openness go home this life think
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it was an open secret to show that everything here which was the jewish property, was sold with a complex auction in defend people could figure out that's a real loaners, hadn't gone on a holiday or to a health resort. bob and the items belong to jews and the nazis had forced to flee the country with their belongings. putting 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 load with the german rush. the nazis confiscated them and auctioned off the contents goods that we meant to shipment when tons of the honda in raymond, to most of the stone objects,
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a still missing the to catch the title is one of the few 100 provenance researches in germany. she's determined to resolve the case of nazi losing once referral and true gym and fashion, the ritual expect vin meticulous been an option that's a step down to $3000.00 households were auctioned off and hungry. i'm more frustrated and just under $1000.00 more were auctioned off and paid in the 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 libel searches for clues. she's on emissions 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 . where did my grandparents belongs? end up in on that process. these questions don't get a moment kind of willis. he hopes, client pals research provides answers. hello, 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,
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they could use grandparents belongings which included the valuable odd collection and we're also sold in a so called lift fans. this is the how many lift vans and crates that your family have as we should buy it for. i know one big ones or then one smaller one lesson on i'm cuz that's what i should have been too cheap. so i the nazis rose to pallet in 1933. although he is 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 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. i saw an opportunity to see you then it was of course the goal of the national socialists not only to push the jewish minority out of the country conflict, but also to completely different franchise 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 and the old conductor took an early interest in not which he 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, but they never made it to london and 1941 had books as were confiscations, photos of memories,
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documents of lights worth of objects disappeared. so filled the money in the end, everything was taken from the doctor's showing that this criminal, terrible foolish are really no words. but 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 goods. i'm call for the affordable gramaphone and oil painting circuit. 175056 books. here in the handbook state archives kitchen. clive of meticulously searches through option rig quotes, the nonsense good bookkeeping gets done. here we go on to and then okay,
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the individual contents of the list been or neatly listed here. and, and you always had the name of the object just on the, in the, in the name of the person who bought it from us here. for example. it's the museum if that's knology 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 needs to books. everything was more or less in florida insurance like the bed linen and the bed frame, especially when cookware and so on costco. sure, it's a viable research is funded by the gym and most of the 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 object journey. the test when it left its owners house with the moving company to the moment it was stored with the bailiff. tact was a job of auctioning it off one because it's so it's you and it basically listens
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who bought what you in 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 what happened to the objects and after that. and then vide helps us yet. a much like a detective catch and client will get this all the clues in it on to base on the student gun some flu tight. and from these puzzle pieces, i think we can trace the task of a lift fan from its starting point, or leaving the house to at the point of sales and 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 struck me that there's a whole topic of jewish migrant property being auctioned off in frame and, and homework number where we've been dealt with. i just confess this miss bravo who bought which items that these auction is on a false validation gigs. this has never been researched because even though it were all in the document, not from days and fail for many people attended the options, not just dealers and private individuals, but also numerous handbook, museums. today they a cooperation with caption, classrooms, research for example, talent ok, museums for
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a painting is an option 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 and return nothing can the, this man's grandparents guild and law shall come from the spot and also own valuable paintings which have never been returned. his family inquired about the missing items early on. at 1st they were told they had been incinerated during foaming license. they was stopped because they would no records box. the grandson persisted and managed to find clues leading to a painting once owned by his family. voss with puppies by know the size of delford honest, individual people to set everything in motion again and raise doubts that the
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painting so actually disappeared or had been destroyed by fire showings and punished headphones and they must actually still exist somewhere else to do stuff. no room for exist you in your honda plus you escape is from the in the family is i was also prompted the husband hammond, 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 artist to adorn museums today. the villa and darling was taken notice of by the national socialists, where they trained journalists loyal to the right, you'll have to push it sky. so what was coming in fled to los angeles in the us site. she hope the contents of the
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household would fine except they never arrived. her property was sold off in handbook and an option the last 3 days. how much fail? 1500 times the actual tribal is still amazed by this case today. is 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 her profit from buying these objects cheaply. i'm of the 1st i go home off to the wall, you'll hon. associated ski wanted to print the back. she had photos to prove what belonged to her. and both would be looted by the nazis, but only a few items were ever returned. libel is researching the case. she's painstakingly
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reconstructing the objects 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 parking and food on the set of pictures show as a furniture from your honda dealerships keys. how with the corresponding item number in the auction record, and because its own still often flushed title coach mccoy much my bill is i'm of now. they're even complete shots of the living rooms all object as well. we also find objects that will 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. to find what would it be an, an update on layout for not a beat of my a crown was bought by maya for $760.00 like small distances. price lock set for the price was estimated at $200.00. this is done with,
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with to so that what has been this land here? with the help of the lawyer johan approach should 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 autumn 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 to see basically every file size, same thing you have, i have no more records of special. we are not aware of that. you'll have, we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on the fia, the files of the risk which you should proceedings stored here in the attic of what
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is now the handbook district court. you have a new title, research has them. he wanted to know how the state pays towards the injured parties and came across the pushes ski case. that's what, that's a huge numbers on this 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. good. i'll be some comments to it was an astonishing find patients who passed because it's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of their properties and phone images. it took a few photographs, their furniture moved, but it was just so exceptional, but i have to look into it to find copeland. so the victims, including johan associates, ski, there's more stakes and just the possessions are uncomfortable in math and just you could tell it was important to to fix those. but they not only go through the property back, but the german courts also acknowledge that they had wrong to you isn't. that doesn't always happen because the courts were more concerned with contracts. so sums of money into like a government issued for tag
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a good come of that gate between close scrutiny and regulation. quote, and i think what you get in 1965 off to 17 years, you'll have to push it. sky was comp and sizes by the federal republic of germany with 960000 torch marks on condition that she truck also declined a laughable sum compared to the original venue of her estate. for mister, appealing, fine was astonishing to me, was that the stapleton actually stepped into the shop. the debt of private individuals was repaired, but the states on this way of political fort that was a political decision in order to prevent the link. the social discord is age of 12 . we estimate that there are about 100000 buyers in hamburg alone. that's not just a view, doesn't people from some small french group wants to be able to view what would have happened if there's active discourse that actually taking the language and listen to this day. many paintings from your hand, a precious goose process. ok. collection
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a classified as lost and continues to search for them with the help of a little some in munich is concerned with more than the value out and trust in trust. and son, if he's interested in his family history and what happened to his grandparents, especially to his grandmother was malta, aunt of hearts, it's not true. he asks himself, is a, we're have all these objects golf is on child of to look at the photos from that time to turn the videos. great, villain dollar evict these, which was furnished with beautiful objects of artem of to started. and where has all of his family history gone? does the guns if somebody didn't receive to complete a lifetime of pain and loss? this chinese put ahead was acquired in paris,
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an auctioned off by the national socialists and the images. and here we have that. i talk one old head items 2 and 6626, acquired by the museum phonology or the school board file friend from the bid was 500 hikes small. got them. i'm not too sure. and there's also an invoice to the museum of phonology about him called but later in the postwar period, during the rest of the teacher negotiations behind them. these in cups of his head was apparently lost on and the flat foot on him that was probably due to a clerical error in the rest of teaching records of 2012 where it was listed as an old heart of london. so when they looked through the record long, they couldn't find the head indian club finished a foot and a half, but the head didn't actually disappear. at the end of 2020 it showed up on display in the form of museum is acknowledging in handbook now named monk.
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it should been loosely stored in a just a few years until it was broken out for an arctic suspicion. pliable seeing it 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 should skis is the . the museum was a pretty familiar with the name. so should ski, because it did already returned 6 objects to its own off to the war, but not the boat to hit the chip from cotton
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climb through the museums attention to it. this contests young before 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. and big museums, we all wish we could simply process it ourselves, but that's an illusion. i'm sorry, as it would take too much time. it's a lifelong tennessee and so i've got a so it will cease to dish flu. you see, i don't find that. 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 and hamburg, was in to ensure that they are adequate resources. also providence research option for as long as they committed to this then must honor this commit to 3 stone. these are 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 the 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 yours and mentions real quick ones to put you on this. and we're lucky here that mark is a public institution. how many of us group, so it is possible to find these items on us and forces locus, which would probably be much more difficult to do if they were in private household and behind his own likes to be up online. but this is the case of the missing e mail, know the painting owned by the cock family. the grandson, painstakingly searches for more clues are passed through many hands off to being bought by casualties. as auction christy's,
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the auction house also tried to sell it in vain. it was delivered to my gallery in keels. 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. the con, there is no transparency, whereas they only sharing this information after 4 or 56 inquiries. why not right away? like the know the wasn't the only work in the cost family's 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 looted the asa shronda from the historical research institute. fax and files is trying to reconstruct the cruise
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from umus paintings from the company to state 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 back. hullstead do to yeah, that's fine. just make good tired findings or why aren't they telling the truth and you're going to go through to the and then 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. that's as incomplete 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 license 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 i've regions the letter and let me just a boost of it in and they'll come, doesn't almost say so far. this is that's approximately total, $1700.00 names of victims from hom, board from procedures and those homework. my kind. yeah. most will i get my whole thing together like this and yeah, you can see i have completed just over half of the list and come on to just as i said in the so my guess would be there's about $2700.00 names in total. and then the loose would prophecy and the names of the victims will be published in
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a dasa bass. only then can the owners and there is a certain times where has the cox out collection gone? the grandson will keep searching as long as he can is up here and is often laguna to one destination. 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. for this chapter if history will be buried forever, will vanish into oblivion, which is on purpose of doing good. and 5, for a belated search for justice ketchum club will won't give up, trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized,
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