Painting Allegedly Looted By Nazi Fugitive Resurfaces In The Wildest Way
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Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi's "Portrait of a Lady” was believed to have been taken 80 years ago from a Jewish art dealer in occupied Amsterdam.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine police raided a villa in a quiet seaside resort on Tuesday as part of a hunt for a 17th-century Italian portrait believed to have been looted 80 years ago from a Jewish collector by a fugitive Nazi officer who settled in Argentina after World War II.
The probe reopens a shadowy chapter in the history of this South American nation, which sheltered scores of Nazis who fled Europe to avoid prosecution for war crimes after World War II, including high-ranking party members and notorious architects of the Holocaust like Adolf Eichmann.
Under the government of Argentine General Juan Perón, whose first tenure lasted from 1946 until his overthrow in 1955, fugitive German fascists brought plundered Jewish property with them from the other side of the world, including gold, bank deposits, paintings, sculptures and furnishings.
The fate of those items continues to make news decades later as the painful process of restitution drags along in Argentina and beyond.
Dutch reporters spot the allegedly looted masterpiece in a real-estate ad
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