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Recovering Art Treasures Stolen By The Nazis In Poland During World War II


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2023 Mar 9, 12:16pm   352 views  4 comments

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#lostpolisharttreasures I am always looking for obscure things that normal media outlets miss. There is an obscure cable channel that I love. On my cable system, it is channel 274. It is called "The American History Channel" (Not to be confused with The History Channel.) They seem to have an obsession with Hitler and the Nazis. Over the months I have watched some incredible documentaries on this channel. For the last couple of nights, the documentaries have focused on the Nazi looting of artworks owned by Jewish people in Poland.
As I was growing up there were some unpleasant stereotypes of Polish people starting with the expression: "A big, dumb Pollack." In the provincial world of my youth in the east end of Houston, Polish people were seen as dumb, poor, and lacking in culture.
This series of documentaries show a different Poland full of culture, wealth, and appreciation for art. Hitler's lawyer Hans Frank was assigned to loot the art of Polish Jews and deliver these treasures to Hitler and Goring. Along the way, Frank collected a lot of art treasures for himself. His life ended prematurely in 1946 when he was hanged for war crimes.
The US Army, British Army, and the Red Army seized a lot of these art treasures at the end of World War II. The US Army rapidly assembled a team of art experts to assist in these efforts. They were put in officer's uniforms after quick military training and dispatched to Europe to work with the recovered art. A great movie was produced about their exploits called "The Monuments Men." An awesome non-profit foundation was formed in Dallas to help with the recovery of artworks looted by the Nazis. It is called The Monuments Men Foundation. The work they do is slow and painstaking. It has all the best elements of a great detective story. Their work is far from done.

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1   Patrick   2023 Mar 9, 12:25pm  

ohomen171 says

A big, dumb Pollack.


Polak is literally just the word for "Pole" in Polish:

https://translate.yandex.com/?source_lang=en&target_lang=pl&text=Pole

So it's hard to see it as terribly offensive.
2   Tenpoundbass   2023 Mar 9, 12:31pm  

The Pollacks that got ribbing in the middle class white neighborhoods in America in the 60's and 70's were Catholic, let's be clear Jews for the most part, by in large don't live along side Gentiles in Gentile neighborhoods. Even though they demand everyone else live in diverse neighborhoods. They create HOA's that if you're not a member of the local Temple you can't buy there. The American Baptist and Methodists have always gave Catholics a ribbing, whether they were Irish, Italians or Poles.
3   Tenpoundbass   2023 Mar 9, 12:37pm  

As for all of these virtue signaling warriors rousing 98 year old Great Grand Dad and Grannies out of their house and making them do Frog Marches, so Commie politicians can get soundbytes. I hope they will be treated the same way for their crimes against humanity when they are in their 90's.
For some reason after the Afghanistan conflict, every ruthless cut throat terrorist were given a "Give and forget" offer. Which is what is, and always has been the case after War. Nobody from Japan has ever been prosecuted for their crimes against humanity in Korea and other lands they conquered, or the way they treated war prisoners.
Germans have been dug up because the Civil rights movement needed some real dangerous Crackers to make a statement. American white people don't provide them real working examples when they need them. So they dig up Nazi bones. And throw granny prison for being a line cook in a German Concentration camp.
Even though refusing Hitler was a way to get yourself killed and your whole family. Stalin was the most atrocious person in History, no one from the USSR has ever been prosecuted either.
4   Ceffer   2023 Mar 9, 12:44pm  

I would hazard that 80 percent of that stolen wealth remains stolen. Hitler just extended the land piracy theme of Switzerland, who enlisted the world investors in the Third Reich.

There is an odd, topical fictitious program on Amazon Prime called 'Hunters', about nazi hunters. At the end if the first series, the female Nazi Queen turns out to be Eva Braun, and series ends with her returning to Hitler in South America surrounded by his spawns, just like the movie "Boys From Brazil".

Al Pacino plays a Nazi who exfiltrated under cover of being Jewish, but gathers a group to hunt Nazis as a kind of penitence. It is a very strange program, is merciless on the whole Paperclip/NASA theme, but at one juncture, they confront a slimy banker, and his mind flashes to show huge tunnels of artworks, precious gems, treasure etc. I would hazard there is more truth to fiction there. The Vatican likewise were investors in Hitler, and spent the over thousand odd years on acquiring wealth and stuffing it in tunnel networks. All of the traditional land pirates have tunnels full of stolen wealth. It means they can destroy the world over and over, and always emerge with a grub stake to start the Babylonian debt system all over again.

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