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The programme of art plunder initiated by Hermann Göring
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI’m quite astonished to not see the freezed peach brigade out to claim how cancel culture shouldn’t suppress the the perfectly legitimate speech of art procurement.
- spoonjim 6y agoReads like a GPT-2 comment. Can you explain what you’re trying to say in plain English?
- ganzuul 6y agoApparently freezed peach is a corruption of free speech.
- throwaway12220 6y agoSeeth and dilate. You'll never be a woman.
- Leparamour 6y agoForgot to take your meds?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI wonder how many pieces he looted were unreturned loot from the Napoleonic conquest? Seems like it'd be a perfect topic for an old style History Channel documentary.
- questiont23 6y agoI see articles like this all the time relating to Nazi Germany (well maybe at least once a month). I just wonder how much longer I'll have to be seeing it. It just seems like propaganda at this point. When did people stop caring what Caesar did in Gaul? When did people stop caring what the Teutonic Order did to pagans? There are many recent examples of plundering that I rarely see either. For instance US looting during WW2, the destruction the US caused in Iraq (such as Tanks crushing the 2,500 year old bricks at Ishtar Gate), US bombing of pretty much every city in North Korea during the Korea war unnecessarily, I could go on.
- gumby 6y agoUntil Hitler, Napoleon was the all-consuming baddie of the English-speaking world. And until Napoleon it was the Pharaoh!
- eplanit 6y ago"At the zenith of his power, Göring had one of his four personal trains specially redesigned to transport paintings, and, beginning in 1940, went on shopping sprees, loading the outbound carriages with ‘stacks of freshly minted Reichsmarks’, touring Occupied Europe ‘in collecting mode’." Though not a documentary, the movie "The Train" with Burt Lancaster depicts this kind of thing really well.