{"id":26091,"date":"2017-02-27T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=26091"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:47:11","slug":"son-of-nazi-governor-returns-art-stolen-from-poland-during-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/02\/son-of-nazi-governor-returns-art-stolen-from-poland-during-second-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the article in The Guardian, <em>Horst W\u00e4chter, the fourth of SS Gruppenf\u00fchrer Otto W\u00e4chter&#8217;s six children, has spent years trying to return a painting taken by his parents from the Potocki Palace. On Sunday, he attended a ceremony in Krak\u00f3w at which three stolen works were returned to the Polish government. &#8230; This handover marks key moment in Poland\u2019s long effort to regain its lost treasure, amid hopes other descendants of Nazi art thieves will follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of objects were stolen from Poland by the Nazi and Soviet forces who occupied it and the country keeps an eye our for works that appear on the open market. <em>Unable to force their current holders to return them, Poland often finds itself having to buy the works at auction \u2013 sometimes from the descendants of those who stole them<\/em>. \u00a0Now that is pretty sad!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2017\/feb\/26\/nazi-art-stolen-poland-returned-horst-waechter\">Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war | Art and design | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the article in The Guardian, Horst W\u00e4chter, the fourth of SS Gruppenf\u00fchrer Otto W\u00e4chter&#8217;s six children, has spent years trying to return a painting taken by his parents from the Potocki Palace. 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