News Forum - Painting stolen by Nazi Party to be returned to Jewish decendants

[Thaiger]

A painting from the 19th century that was once owned by Hermann Goering, a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, is going to be returned to the descendants of its original Jewish owner. The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University in Britain agreed to return a painting by French artist Gustave Courbet to the descendants of …

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[Vigo]

The crime  wasn't just the  initial theft, but the profiteering by those who sold the artwork. In particular the Swiss Kurt Meissner. What the Germans did was wrong, but those who profited from the crimes like the Swiss and then hid behind the Germans blaming them was far worse.  Our failure to have held enablers like Switzerland and Sweden responsible for their actions enabled their later immoral acts. The Swiss banking system is one of the dirtiest in the world and has made the lives of the world's despots easier for decades. The result is that the  dirty works eventually rot from within like Credit Suisse.

[Ramanathan.P]

In the name of archeological and art collection these western countries have typically ripped many countries under their colonial rule. It is time that all those stolen items be returned to the origin so that it is kept where it belongs originally