Legal Opinion
Federal Republic of Germany v. Elicofon
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided August 24, 1978No. 69 C 93PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum of Decision and Order
MISHLER, Chief Judge.
Nearly nine years ago, this action was commenced to recover two portraits painted by the celebrated fifteenth century German artist, Albrecht Duerer. Until 1945, the paintings were exhibited in a museum in Weimar known as Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar. 1 During the American occupation of Weimar at the end of World War II — sometime between April and July of 1945 — the paintings were stolen from the Schwarzburg Castle where they had been placed for safekeeping by museum authorities. On July 1, 1945, two months after the defeat of the…
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