NAZIS' LOOT

Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 5

NAZIS' LOOT

ART TREASURES UNEARTHED NEARLY £375,000,000 WORTH RECOVERED (ttec. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, May 27. Nine-tenths of the art treasures, valued at £375,000,000, plundered by the Nazis from occupied territories in PJurope have been recovered by Allied Supreme Headquarters, Monuments of Fine Arts, and the Archives Commission, in the British-American occupied territory. In the British sector thousands of pounds' worth of treasures connected with the English Royal House of Hanover have been recovered from phospate mines near Hanover, where the Nazis hid them. One million pounds' worth of treasure, including a train load of Goering's loot with trucks packed tight with valuables, was discovered at Berchtesgaden station, and the £2,000,000 worth in cash and bullion hidden by Himmler in the Seventh Army sector is likely to involve months of work. Allied and German art restoration experts are now working to recover art despoiled by the Nazis, and the famous Van Eyck altar piece will shortly be restored to its rightful place in Ghent. In the Hamburg area last week famous pictures, valued at hundreds of thousands of pounds, were recovered from deep air raid shelters, and from these emerged a Velasquez, valued* at several thousand pounds alone, as well as original works of Rubens. Monet, Courbet, and famous moderns.