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Fearing similar litigation, auction website eBay enacted new guidelines regarding the sale of Nazi memorabilia in 2003. eBay's policies prohibit items relating to Nazi media propaganda, items made after 1933 that contains a swastika, Nazi reproduction items such as uniforms, and all Holocaust-related products. Memorabilia such as coins, stamps ...
The remaining 724 were assessed according to a "traffic light" system: green for works "proven or highly likely not to be Nazi-looted art" (28 items); yellow for "provenance during the period between 1933 and 1945 is not entirely clear; there are gaps in the provenance", i.e., requiring further investigation (650 items); and red for works ...
The sale of items from a collection of an American medical officer who attended to the needs of defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials was condemned by Germany's Jewish community as ...
The German Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda discussed opportunities how to place the works on the international market and the idea of an auction was discussed. [3] The earliest trace of the auction in Lucerne is a letter from Theodor Fischer to Heinrich Hoffmann in which he suggests that an auction under his guidance would yield ...
Craig Gottlieb has authored three books, [13] including History's Jackpot: Investing in Antique Collectibles. [14] The SS Totenkopf Ring: An Illustrated History from Munich to Nuremberg, [15] [16] and Gau Decorations in Hitler's Germany, on Nazi political decorations, was released in 2013.
In the Netherlands, van Gogh's birthplace and home of many of his collectors, 75% of the Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and special Nazi looting organizations seized all their property, including art. Some artworks were sold to finance the Nazi war machine, and other entered the private collections of Nazi officials.
Klaus-Dieter Flick (born 1937) is a German lawyer and wealthy former financial broker, [1] known as a convicted Nazi art and military equipment collector from Kitzeberg, a wealthy suburb of Heikendorf on the Kieler Förde (Kiel Fjord).
Germany loaned the looted paintings to German museums Seized for Führermuseum, then loaned to German museums, to be restituted in 2021 to the London-based Vision Foundation [76] triptych by Count Leopold von Kalckreuth Marietta Glanville [80] Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Bavarian State Paintings Collection, restituted in March 2000 [81]