[SunkenCiv]

the dozens of Christian devotional masterpieces -- ornate crucifixes, reliquaries of improbable detail, portable altars — were originally housed in the Brunswick Cathedral. In the 17th century the rich collection was removed from the cathedral and became the property of Roman Catholic convert John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg. Hundreds of years later in 1929, his descendant Ernest Augustus, the last reigning monarch of the House of Hanover, sold them to a group of Jewish art dealers for ready cash. Subsequently, as reported in an October 30, 1935, Baltimore Sun article, “Long owned by the Dukes of Brunswick, the treasure was purchased by a consortium of art dealers and sold to the government of Prussia”

The sale was 2.5 million in 1935 -- quite a fortune; unless the sellers sold it to avoid getting gassed, this doesn't look like a compelling complaint to me. Thanks nickcarraway. This is the weekly Digest ping.

[AnalogReigns]

Not to mention since the art dealers only purchased the collection in ‘29, it’s clear they were speculators...these are not family heirlooms going back a long time.

For a families to wait 60+ years after the war before claiming “restitution” is suspicious to me.