Letter: Art Confiscated by Nazis

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 30 November 2013 | 13.26

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To the Editor:

Re "Enduring Nazi Law Impedes Recovery of Art" (Arts pages, Nov. 20):

Using Nazi-era laws to justify the refusal to return artworks seized by the Nazis is hypocrisy on a grand scale.

Everything the Nazis did was codified in German law. Whether killing Jews or confiscating cultural works deemed a danger to society, it was all "legal." What's really at work here is the sheer inconvenience this moral dilemma presents to the billionaire investors who buy and sell art.

Any suggestion that Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, legally inherited the confiscated works is absurd. It's called trafficking in stolen property, and no passage of time can erase that sin.

MICHAEL HOLLAND
Nashville, Nov. 20, 2013


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