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The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee such as the Ghent Altarpiece.
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Nazis and hid
Ottorino Barassi, the Italian vice-president of FIFA and president of FIGC, secretly transported the trophy from a bank in Rome and hid it in a shoe-box under his bed to prevent the Nazis from taking it.
Hermine Santruschitz ( 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010 ), better known as Miep Gies, was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II.
Ordered by the Nazis to hand over important Jewish manuscripts and artworks for display in an Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question, to be based in Frankfurt, Sutzkever and his friends hid a diary by Theodor Herzl, drawings by Marc Chagall and other treasured works behind plaster and brick walls in the ghetto.
During World War II, Münter hid Kandinsky's works and those from other artists from the Nazis.
His mother hid a Jewish family in the house and Skolimowski recalls being required to take candy from the Nazis to maintain appearances.
The article also sets out the story of the young Jewish girl, Mira Papo, whom Korkut and his wife hid from the Nazis as they were acting to save the Haggadah.
Olbermann explains that the formula was in fact real, and the Nazis hid it as the war ended in an operation code-named ' Genesis '.
Nazis and looted
For example, provenance between 1933 and 1945 can determine whether a painting was looted by the Nazis.
At the behest of US President Bill Clinton, Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat testified at these hearings that Swiss banks knowingly purchased looted gold from the Nazis during WWII.
A few weeks later, in Washington DC, delegates from 44 countries agreed to set up a central registry on art looted by the Nazis which could be established on the internet.
In December 2003, the Simon Wiesenthal Center alleged in a letter to President Mary McAleese that the museum's collection contained items looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, although the letter did not refer to any specific items in the collection.
Although this gold would be worth hundreds of thousands of 2008 US dollars, it constituted only a small percentage of the gold looted during World War II, mostly by the Nazis.
* Professor Jonathan Petropoulos ' resignation in April 2008 as director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Center, amid controversy over the failed restitution of a Pissarro painting looted by the Nazis in 1938.
In Robert Harris ' alternate history novel Fatherland, set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II, this work turns up in a Swiss safe deposit box in 1964, having been looted by prominent Nazis.
Although this gold would be worth hundreds of thousands of 2008 US dollars, it constituted only a small percentage of the gold looted during World War II, mostly by the Nazis.
The museum was embarrassed when a Matisse painting in its possession was proven to have been looted by Nazis and legitimately owned by a French Jewish family, and Gates brokered an 11th hour settlement that returned the artwork, after which the museum sued the gallery which had sold it the painting in the 1950s.
After long and tedious negotiations the Austrian government agreed in 1999 to return or pay for the roughly 250 Rothschild art treasures that were looted by the Nazis and absorbed into Austrian State Museums.
Nazis and art
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled Munch's work " degenerate art " ( along with Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Gauguin and many other modern artists ) and removed his 82 works from German museums.
In each of these, a Reichskammer ( Reich Chamber ) was established, co-opting leading figures from the field ( usually not known Nazis ) to head each Chamber, and requiring them to supervise the purge of Jews, socialists and liberals, as well as practitioners of " degenerate " art forms such as abstract art and atonal music.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they regarded Dix as a degenerate artist and had him sacked from his post as an art teacher at the Dresden Academy.
There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
* January 27 – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2, 000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis.
From November 8, 1937 to January 31, 1938, the Library of the German Museum in Munich held an art exhibition titled The Eternal Jew, showing works that the Nazis considered to be ' degenerate art '.
In February 1936, the Nazis destroyed the monument due to its political overtones, and considered its design to fall under the category of degenerate art.
After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art ; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned Marc as an entarteter Künstler ( degenerate artist ), and ordered that approximately 130 of his works be taken from exhibit in German museums.
Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art.
While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the " blood and soil " values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
Some internees were actually refugees from the Nazis, including socialists such as Kurt Hager and a large number of artists attacked for their ' degeneracy ' in an infamous Nazi art exhibition in 1937 ( see Degenerate art ).
Some of the art was destined for the Führermuseum in Linz, while the Nazis attempted to sell so-called ' degenerate art ' ( modern art " unworthy " in the eyes of the Nazis ) on the international art market.
In 1998, the WJC released a list of 2, 000 people who allegedly took part in the Nazis ' massive looting of art.
Nazis and salt
Bimba is an intense, quiet individual whose father was murdered by the Nazis, and who himself worked for three years in a salt mine.
Nazis and at
In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.
Hilbert lived to see the Nazis purge many of the prominent faculty members at University of Göttingen in 1933.
Husserl was incorrectly rumoured to have been denied the use of the library at Freiburg as a result of the anti-Jewish legislation the Nazis passed in April 1933.
He was at first impressed with Heidegger and began a book on him, but broke off the project when Heidegger became involved with the Nazis.
According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.
Because the extermination camps were physically small ( only several hundred metres long and wide ) and equipped with minimal housing and support installations, the Nazis deceived the prisoners upon their arrival, telling them that they were at a temporary transit stop, and soon would continue to an Arbeitslager ( work camp ) farther east.
Nazi propaganda sometimes promoted premarital and extramarital sexual relations, unwed motherhood and divorce, but at other times the Nazis opposed such behaviour.
The Polish population was oppressed, with many former officials and others considered potential enemies by the Nazis being imprisoned or executed, including at the notorious Fort VII concentration camp in Poznań.
In March 1933, less than three months after the Nazis seized power, Himmler set up the first official concentration camp at Dachau.
Historian Ian Kershaw observes that many Nazis seemed to have a " psychological block " at the end of the regime, refusing to recognise their responsibility for the barbaric actions that occurred during the Third Reich.
In 1932, he told Young Liberals at the University of Oxford that progressive leaders must become liberal fascists or enlightened Nazis in order to implement their ideas.
Goebbels hated capitalism, viewing it as having Jews at its core, and he stressed the need for the Nazis to emphasize both a proletarian and national character.
Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the party ’ s appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28 % in Berlin to the combined left ’ s 55 %.
On 9 November, the evening vom Rath died of his wounds, Goebbels was at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich with Hitler, celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch with a large crowd of veteran Nazis.
Unlike many other leading Nazis at this juncture, Goebbels proved to have strong convictions, moving himself and his family into the Vorbunker, that was connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery gardens in central Berlin.
By early February Adenauer finally realized that all talk and all attempts at compromise with the Nazis were futile.
His stay at this abbey, which lengthened to a full year, was cited by the abbot after the war when the monastery was accused by Heinrich Böll and others of collaboration with the Nazis.
Indeed at the end of 1932, Adenauer had demanded a joint government by his Zentrum party and the Nazis for Prussia.
* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.
The Nazis used the economical crisis, which had significant effects in far-off Masuria, as well as traditional anti-Polish sentiments while at the same time Nazi political rallies were organized in the Masurian dialect during the campaigning.
* 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg ( Lviv ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6, 000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
* Poland: After World War II, with the extermination of the Jews by the invading German Nazis during the Holocaust, the Expulsion of Germans after World War II and the loss of eastern territories ( Kresy ), 96. 7 % of the people of Poland claim Polish nationality, and 97. 8 % declare that they speak Polish at home ( Census 2002 ).
He saved the lives of 382 Jews by convincing the Nazis that they were indispensable for the production process at Philips.
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