Re: Gee this will convince everyone

From: tschibasch <tschibasch_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:51:12 -0000

> 4) Iraq is the only country in which this occurs. It's strange: no one
> looted the European museums after liberation there. But this same thing
> occurred in 1991. It appears almost self-destructive.

Um, to my knowledge there was a lot of looting during WWII, especially
after the shooting stopped. Things simply vanished as soldiers took
control of cities.

People should of course always come first. Whenever I heard about
WWII, there was more attention on the fact the nearly 1/3 of all then
women in Berlin were raped by drunk Russian soldiers. Just horrible.


> 5) Since a lot of these treasures went to private collectors, they
should
> be recoverable--either by us, or by Iraq (which will be a rich
country once
> it's on its feet again).

I agree there, provided there is some kind of paper trail.

Back to WWII: For a long time Germany has tried to reclaim certain
treasures from the USSR (that ended up in Russian museums), but was
always rebuffed. Now that Russia is financially hurting, it may happen.


John
Received on 2003-04-21 15:51:17