<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;In 1932, the Menzel family purchased Marc Chagall’s painting,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;Jacob’s Ladder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;, and hung it in their apartment in Brussels, Belgium. But as the Nazi regime advanced, the Menzels, fearing for their own safety, fled Brussels for the United States, leaving their Chagall painting behind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;After the Allied Forces declared victory, the Menzels returned to their Brussels apartment, only to find their Chagall painting missing. The Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a Nazi Party organization responsible for looting cultural property like artwork, had stolen it during the war. But the Menzels were not about to let the fascists take anything else from them. They were determined to find and retrieve the Chagall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Mr. Menzel passed away in 1960, but his widow, Erna, refused to give up on the painting. In 1962, she found it. And the legal case that would follow was controversial and precedent-setting in New York State, the art world, and the field of post-war damages and reparations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Patreon: &lt;a href= "http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal"&gt;http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;a href= "https://bit.ly/3ygv9Fz"&gt;https://bit.ly/3ygv9Fz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Das Criminal

Aamer & Erin

68 - Menzel v. List: The Case of the Looted Painting

JUL 19, 202237 MIN
Das Criminal

68 - Menzel v. List: The Case of the Looted Painting

JUL 19, 202237 MIN

Description

In 1932, the Menzel family purchased Marc Chagall’s painting, Jacob’s Ladder, and hung it in their apartment in Brussels, Belgium. But as the Nazi regime advanced, the Menzels, fearing for their own safety, fled Brussels for the United States, leaving their Chagall painting behind.

After the Allied Forces declared victory, the Menzels returned to their Brussels apartment, only to find their Chagall painting missing. The Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a Nazi Party organization responsible for looting cultural property like artwork, had stolen it during the war. But the Menzels were not about to let the fascists take anything else from them. They were determined to find and retrieve the Chagall.

Mr. Menzel passed away in 1960, but his widow, Erna, refused to give up on the painting. In 1962, she found it. And the legal case that would follow was controversial and precedent-setting in New York State, the art world, and the field of post-war damages and reparations.

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