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.
Well, then again, half of the treasures of the Louvre and the British Museum were stolen, but not by Nazis.
They should look at the loot from Neal and Mozzie’s sub.
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?
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?
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
What’s a good Jewish family doing with a picture of Christ anyway?
Pray tell. Where is this land? How did your family acquire it.
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.
Remember this:
Madeleine Albright’s father ‘took war loot to America’
March 28, 1999
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985273/posts
but doesn't count right?
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.
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Do they have the original receipt. Sorry we cannot do anything if they do not have the original receipt.
Call it what you like, it's a scam and wrong.
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
fwiw, Lewis & Clark? Great Americans, can't get enough of their stories.
good day
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.
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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.
They could say they bought it at KMART.
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?
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