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Edda Göring, the 77-year-old daughter of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the Nazi WW2 leader who supervised the greatest art theft in modern history, has just lost her fight for a share of 'his' assets, confiscated after the end of World War II. He was estimated to have personally collected (stolen or coerced people into selling for virtually nothing) over 3000 almost priceless artworks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...racking-the-case-of-the-Nazis-stolen-art.html
http://m.thelocal.de/20150424/grings-daughter-fails-in-bid-to-win-fathers-assets
Photo link: http://ww2gravestone.com/people/goering-hermann-wilhelm
Goering had profited from perhaps the greatest organised art theft in modern history, one that continued for years and was supervised by an agency of the German state, and removed colossal quantities of paintings, sculptures and other items from occupied Europe (26,000 railway wagons of it from France alone). Yet more was snatched from museums and collections in Germany itself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...racking-the-case-of-the-Nazis-stolen-art.html
Edda Göring wrote in her petition that the Bavarian government's seizure of her father's assets after the Second World War was a contravention of the law, arguing it was against her rights of inheritance.
She argued that because the assets were taken two years after the death of her father, who killed himself during the Nuremberg trials in 1946, she had been illegally dispossessed.
Göring did not demand the entirety of her father's assets back, but at least enough for a subsistence livelihood.
But the parliament only took a couple of minutes to reach its decision, citing the two-plus-four agreement, signed in 1991 which ended any further claims for compensation related to Germany's Nazi past.
http://m.thelocal.de/20150424/grings-daughter-fails-in-bid-to-win-fathers-assets
Photo link: http://ww2gravestone.com/people/goering-hermann-wilhelm