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tv   The Nazi Art Heist  Deutsche Welle  May 12, 2024 2:02am-2:31am CEST

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the children's bedding, a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold drain cuz i'm in. i'm going once going twice going 3 times from underwear to valuable. everything was sort of nazis used options to generate millions replenished a war chest, hunt for bonbons, which let know stuff on to global showing just as an openness go home this life think it was an open secret issue that everything here which was the jewish property, was sold with a club like auction in defend, people could figure out that they're 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 life in exile. but off to the world again, very few of these crates went to their own is here in hamburg,
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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 were meant to shipment, when tons of the honda in raymond, to most of the stone objects, a still missing the catch from the title 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 the vin
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arsonists us that and we'll set out the $3000.00 households we're 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 for auctioned on strike of funds. and it's easy to see that this amounts to millions of individual items, or actual libel searches for clues. she's on emissions for justice from you of 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 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 the subjects,
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where did my grandparents belongs, and doctors on that process. these questions don't get a moment please kind of willis. he hopes climbable, research provides answers. hello, hello, hello. good morning. it's nice to see, you know, so it's, it's nice to meet and such as symbolic place. oh yeah. then could use grand parents 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 as we should buy it for. i know one big ones or then one smaller one. that's what i am cuz i thought i should have been too cheap. so i the nazis rose to power in 1933. as i said,
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miss transferred stimulation 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 will be re united with their belongings, provided they had 8 transport in advance. the costs were meant that many of the crates never reach their owners as well. i'm not ready to see you. then i 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 dissimilar franchise and plunder them financially. and in that respect district, there was little incentive to ship them their property in the 1st place to know the head. so she, the co family came from the spot and the old dump that took an early interest in
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not which she bought together with his wife. he died 1933 east children's play to london, soon to be joined by their mother. lot of positions which included the families of collection, which was followed by way of handbook. southwest hall, the that was the promise, but they never made it to london. 1941 had books as were confiscations, photos of memories, documents of lights worth of objects disappeared. so full of money in the end, everything was taken from the doctor's showing that his criminal, terrible, foolish don't really know where it's but enough to describe us in the hub is the gestapo confiscated goods that we meant to shipping an auction to them off even use papers advertised opportunities to purchase. she
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i'm call for the affordable gramaphone. and oil painting circuit. 1750. 56 books. here in the handbook states archives kitchen libel meticulously, searches through option rig quotes. the nonsense for good bookkeeping gets done. so here we go on to and objects, the individual contents of the list van or neatly listed here. and, and you always had the name of the object, understand this, the name and the name of the person from the audit. he had so much here, for example, it's the museum of phonology 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 insurance like the bed
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linen and the bedframe, the special on cookware, and so on costco. sure, it's a viable research is funded by the gym. and last out foundation what she thinks to establishes, who was abrupt, who was the behind, and where are the items now, from the beginning, from for less than from the beginning of an object journey. that's 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 cuz it's so it's you and it basically listens who bought what you and for how much gum so that we get an overview of conduct the very bhaskar cove talk to the fuse, where the private persons were the dealers feedback as well, and what happened to the objects and after that was checked and then vide helps us yet. much like a detective catch and client will get this all the clues in atlanta base. and i'm just using johnson flu time. and from these puzzle pieces, i think we can trace the task of
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a lift fan from its starting point or leading the house to it's point of sales and homework. 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, 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 this whole topic of jewish microns property being auctioned off in freeman and homework. i have never really been dealt with. i just confess business for all of us who bought which items at
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these auction, you know, a forced foundation gigs. this has never been researched because even though it were all in the document and not from days and fail for many people to attend to the options, not just deal is in private individuals, but also numerous times of the museums. today they a cooperation with caption clamp is research. for example, installer ok, museums for a paintings that option and is now looking for the rightful owners and is the comb vanna, to distrust these are 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 has never been returned. his family inquired about the
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missing items early on. at 1st they were told they had been incineration during bombing license. they was stumped because the, with no records bought the grandson to assisted and managed to find clues leading to a painting, once owned by his family. boss with puppies by know the tires are definitely donors, individual group to set everything in motion again and raise doubts that the paintings that actually disappeared or had been destroyed by fire showings and understood phones and they must actually still exist somewhere else. i just don't know for room for exist in your honda associates gate is from the in the family est. it was also prompted to a husband to him and who is open to a department store in berlin. had left his fortune to his wife. the loving family head board pieces by beckman lieberman brock and schmidt, brooklyn's office,
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were doing museums today. the villa in darling was taken over by the national socialists, where they train journalists loyal to the right hand up. so should ski sold what was coming and fled to los angeles in the us said she hope the contents of the household would fine except they never arrived. her property was sold off in handbook and an option that lasted 3 days. how much fail? 1500 times actually pliable, is still amazed by this case today. it's
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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 an official title of to the war johan associate sky wanted her pregnancy back. she had photos to prove what belong to her, and most would be looted by the nazis, but only a few items were ever returned. and through the tribal is researching the case. she's painstakingly 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 putting on food on this side of pictures and show is the furniture from your honda pal should skis. how was the corresponding item number in the auction record and for the to huntsville, often flushed. idols patrol coined much mine bill is i'm of now. they're even
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complete shots of the living rooms. all object is what we also find objects that worse bond with the auction record, ios portal, quite a bit of it. a few and clicking on that annoying. let's take a look at this 11. 09 fine. what would it be? an, an update on layout for not a beat of my a crown was bought by maya for $760.00 hikes of offices. price lock sets for the price was estimated at $200.00. this is done with, with to so that what has been this land 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
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onboard bailiffs office without having the slightest idea they might be chosen property. and this was item 100 and crenza sheet, basically every file size, same thing you have, i have no more records on special where you're not aware of the go have we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on the feel the files of the risk attrition proceedings stored here in the attic of what is now the handbook district court. you can you tie who research has them? he wanted to know how the state pays towards the injured parties and came across the pushes ski case. guess what types of huge 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 with me. and i'll be some comments to it was an astonishing find patients who pop because it's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of their properties
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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 than just the possessions or unconsciously american just you could tell it was important to to fix those. but they not only got their property back when the german courts also acknowledged that they had wrong them in this. and that doesn't always happen because the courts were more concerned with contracts. so sums of money into like a government issued for tag a good come of god, gave it a very close scrutiny and regulation quote that i think was in 1965 off to 17 use. johan approach should ski was compton sizes by the federal republic of germany, with 960000 torch marks on condition that she truck off the declines a laughable sum compared to the original value of her estate. finish appealing file
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. it was a solution to me, was that the states then actually stepped into the show. the death of private individuals was repaired, but the states on this way of political support, that was a political decision in order to prevent the link. the social discord is age of 12 . we estimate, we've done. 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 give you what would have happened if there's active discourse at actually taking the language and listen to this day. many paintings from your hand, a precious because process collection a classified as lost and continues to search for them with the help of a little some and munich is concerned with move and then finding out and fresh interest. so i'm, so i'm, if he's interested in his family history, was that what happened to his grandparents um,
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especially to his grandmother who was more to one of hearts is not what he asks himself, is a where have all these objects golf because i'm 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. let's get started. and where has all of his family history gone is against. if somebody didn't receive to complete a lifetime of pain and loss, this chinese put ahead was a quad in paris, an auctioned off by the national socialists and the images of and here we have it. i talk one old head items 166265 acquired by the museum of acknowledging or quin. the school board fund from the bid was $505.00 small got them and i chose and there's also an invoice to the museum of phonology about i didn't call but later in the postwar period, during the rest of the teacher negotiations behind them. didn't call this head was apparently lost on, on, and that's lockwood on and that was probably due to
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a clerical error in the rest of the teaching records. i don't know where it was listed as an old heart. so when they looked through the record, because they couldn't find the head and didn't quite finish the phone and have the head didn't actually disappear at the end of 2020 it showed up on display in the form of museum is acknowledging and handbook now named monk it should be on loosely stored in addition to the 80 years until it was broken off for an arctic suspicion. pliable seeing it for the 1st time to it. 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
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long las boot ahead will finally be returned to your hand. up for sheets keys is the, the museum was already 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 ahead. the tip from katrin climb trees and museums attention to it. just 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. so it will cease to dish flu. you see,
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i don't buy that. no, it's an excuse the 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 to 3 stone. these are put fixed on what i needed was the board ahead was tracked down thanks to the joint efforts of caution chronicle and mock. it's the fitness piece and titles research projects to be returned the heck. yeah, 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
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mark is a public institution script. so it is possible to find these items on us and forces workers, which would probably be much more difficult to do if they were in private household size behind. it only 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, the costs through many hands off to being bought by a casualty. last auction. christy's the auction house also tried to sell it in vain . it was delivered to it by a 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 and the kinds of there is no transparency. whereas they only
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sharing this information after 4 or 56 inquiries, one that right away, like the know the wasn't the only work in the club family's collection. it also includes just out of valuable paintings such as a yep, lensky, a clay, a role. today, they a certain that all of these artworks will just be honest estrada from the historical research institute. fax and files is trying to reconstruct the cruise from umus paintings from the company to state. the keel gallery claims that it no longer has any documents that could shed much on the national. 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, as every art dealer knows, that documentation is the be all and end all of their business. so you always know what you had, who you got it from and who you sold it to months my calls to do to yeah,
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i just make good tired things or why aren't they telling the truth and you're going to forget the and then that's let's talk to issue of why are they trying to mislead us and to the time they shouldn't boost 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 what the piece had been stolen. it's as integrate to this day, most of the positions belong to the expelled jewish community. i'm missing minions of all checks, everything that was due to them that they had hoped to take with them to begin, then you launch was sold off at options where anyone could get the hands on them. it's a suspend task. cloud bl, is working her way through mountains of files to find the 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
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a boost of it in. and it'll come, doesn't august? yeah, so far this is that's approximately total $1700.00 names of victims from hom, board from procedures. now some work on sunday 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 i said in 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 a da suffice. 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 really doing a 21 destination. i said to myself who a different generation doesn't do this anymore. if i don't,
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at least try to get to the bottom of this, nothing will happen to me. this chapter of history will be buried forever. will vanish into oblivion, which is on purpose of doing good 5 for a belated search for justice ketchum club will won't give up, trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized, the the,
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