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Family: 400-Year-Old Painting Stolen By Nazis
WFTV ^ | September 9, 2011

Posted on 09/10/2011 3:28:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A 400-year-old painting of Christ is at the center of an investigation.

The painting is at a museum in Tallahassee, but it's believed to have been stolen from its original owners by Nazi soldiers.

The grandchildren of a Jewish man claim the painting was stolen from their grandfather in the 1930s, and now they want it back.

The CEO of the museum got a call from the U.S. district attorney about the artwork.

“She had information that indicated that it had been alleged that there was a family who claimed to have prior ownership of the painting and it had been stolen by Nazi soldiers,” said Chuca Barber.

Barber also said she found out the painting and five others were up for auction in a catalog in 1941. Those five paintings were proven to be the property of that family. The painting is estimated to be worth $2.5 million.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: art; godsgravesglyphs; museums; worldwarii
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1 posted on 09/10/2011 3:28:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Well, then again, half of the treasures of the Louvre and the British Museum were stolen, but not by Nazis.


2 posted on 09/10/2011 3:32:27 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: nickcarraway

They should look at the loot from Neal and Mozzie’s sub.


3 posted on 09/10/2011 3:33:21 PM PDT by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: nickcarraway
there was a family who claimed to have prior ownership

Yeah, my family has all kind of stuff we used to own.

Can we get it back too? Or only if it was stolen by Nazis?

4 posted on 09/10/2011 3:36:09 PM PDT by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh!, can I get in on this action? My family had a bunch of land out here and now other people are on it, can I sue for the land or how about 5 centuries of back rent?


5 posted on 09/10/2011 4:06:07 PM PDT by NativeSon
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To: nkycincinnatikid
Well, then again, half of the treasures of the Louvre and the British Museum were stolen, but not by Nazis.

When these things were "stolen" by the French and the British, did they have any value to the people of person they were taken from? I don't know. I'm asking. The Rosetta Stone was supposedly used for building material in Egypt. The Nazis were not stealing/looting construction material.

ML/NJ

6 posted on 09/10/2011 4:11:28 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: nickcarraway

What’s a good Jewish family doing with a picture of Christ anyway?


7 posted on 09/10/2011 4:12:47 PM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: NativeSon
My family had a bunch of land out here and now other people are on it

Pray tell. Where is this land? How did your family acquire it.

ML/NJ

8 posted on 09/10/2011 4:16:20 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

You aught to think about all the things you own now, and consider what cultures of the future will think about that. Your kids will likely get screwed because of the precedence being set now.


9 posted on 09/10/2011 4:35:31 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: nickcarraway

Remember this:

Madeleine Albright’s father ‘took war loot to America’
March 28, 1999
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985273/posts


10 posted on 09/10/2011 4:41:33 PM PDT by donna (This is what happens when America is no longer a Christian nation.)
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To: ml/nj
You know exactly what I mean. Very little of the Americas was ceded voluntarily, doesn't mean it should now be stolen from this generation to pay a perceived debt from the past.

but doesn't count right?

11 posted on 09/10/2011 4:57:56 PM PDT by NativeSon
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You know exactly what I mean. Very little of the Americas was ceded voluntarily

It's true some of it was taken by war. But not nearly as much as the lefties would have you believe. Lewis and Clark went clear across the continent and encountered relatively few settlements.

Besides if the Nazis had won the war the paintings wouldn't now be considered stolen, would they?

The notion that stolen goods if secreted away along enough become the property of the thief is not part of our legal system.

ML/NJ

12 posted on 09/10/2011 5:52:25 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: nickcarraway

Do they have the original receipt. Sorry we cannot do anything if they do not have the original receipt.


13 posted on 09/10/2011 5:57:28 PM PDT by Venturer
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Of course agents of the government and the government would never lie, right? You should be working for Obama with that logic.

Call it what you like, it's a scam and wrong.

14 posted on 09/10/2011 6:04:11 PM PDT by NativeSon
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Of course agents of the government and the government would never lie, right?

Look Pal, you gave me that BS about how your land was stolen, and I asked you what land? You dodged because your legends are primarily BS. I say this as someone who is basically sympathetic to how screwed the Indians were by the US Government. Suggesting that the Journals of Lewis and Clark are lies is a new one on me. I've never heard such nonsense before. Do you have any evidence that the Journals were "enhanced" or is this more BS like you ancestral homeland?

ML/NJ

15 posted on 09/10/2011 6:48:53 PM PDT by ml/nj
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I'm not your pal and you are rude. Not sure what your game is but I'm not playing it, so whatever your "legends " are, enjoy them and try not to let them bias your reasoning

fwiw, Lewis & Clark? Great Americans, can't get enough of their stories.

good day

16 posted on 09/10/2011 7:43:29 PM PDT by NativeSon
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I'm not your pal and you are rude. Not sure what your game is but I'm not playing it

Waaaaaah.

My "game" as you call it is challenging people who make statements at variance with the truth. Most people don't fold like a cheap camera the way you did; but since you did I called you on it. You call this "rude." I would say that it is too bad that John McCaine wasn't "rude" to Barack Hussein Obama.

ML/NJ

17 posted on 09/10/2011 7:50:03 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: NativeSon

I want in on this too. My family had an island in the St. Lawrence taken by the State of New York. I want part ownership of the power plant they built there - or ten million dollars.


18 posted on 09/10/2011 7:57:02 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Venturer
Do they have the original receipt. Sorry we cannot do anything if they do not have the original receipt.

They could say they bought it at KMART.

19 posted on 09/10/2011 8:05:49 PM PDT by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: ml/nj
Really? Ok then but you are being rude. You are probably a nice person but there is no need to insult someone, show respect. Respect and honor are important, they are important to me.

to be concise, I am Dine, the Dinetah is still our home but many of our sacred sites have been turned into parks because of the natural beauty, and mines because of the natural resources.

I am not talking about legends, remember the Clinton years and the theft from the tribes? The shredding of documents, the violation of court orders ?

this land was occupied, there were wars, much was lost but I am an American. I would no sooner expect you and your family ( if you live in the Americas and are not AI) to move or pay tribal tribute than to force that museum to hand over the painting in question.

Go down that path where do you end?

20 posted on 09/10/2011 8:18:16 PM PDT by NativeSon
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