$1.35 Billion in art work stolen by the Nazis recovered
I just saw an episode of “Bones” where an old Nazi was murdered in South America and in his basement they found art work, gold, pictures and other items he had been hiding. Then a real-life story of Nazi theft caught my attention. Just recently more than 1,500 paintings that haven’t been seen in 75 years were recovered. Many of them had been believed destroyed during the war. Three years ago customs officials doing a routine check on a train from Switzerland met an man from Munich, Germany, named Hildebrant Gurlitt. It turns out the Gurlitt was a fake name. Officials tracked him down in 2011 to an small apartment. “Behind “mountains of rotting food and decades-old tin cans” lay a collection of artworks thought to be worth over $1.35 billion, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, and Renoir,” reported TheVerge.com. Read more…
Nazis don’t like "Star Trek"
Germany…the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, whose 43 year mission it is to finally have one of its episodes shown there. It’s been 43 years, but the Star Trek episode, “The Patterns of Force” was finally broadcast on German television. When the episode first aired in 1968, it was not broadcast in Germany because the episode centers around a future culture that patterned itself after the Nazi regime. The episode showed the swastika throughout and Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock impersonate the Nazi SS officers at one point to infiltrate the regime. And when it was recently shown in Germany, according to the U.K. Daily Mail, it was not broadcast until after 10 p.m. and it was preceded by a parental warning that no one under 16 years old should watch it. And this was 66 Read more…
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