http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/03/taylor.painting.ap/index.html


Liz Taylors dad bought a painting that some claim was looted by Nazis.

How does this work?
If a person in good faith buys art that Nazis stole generations ago do they just give it back uncompensated?
Do the Nazis compensate them?
Or, since the Nazis are gone, do the descendents of the Nazis compensate them?
Crazy, huh?

Does Liz Taylor then have a legal case against whomever sold the painting to her dad - who has a case against whomever sold it to him - and so on back to the Nazis?
Or is it just Liz Taylors loss of $15 million?

What about land stolen from Native Americans?
Same damn thing.
That said, isn't possession nine tenths of the law.
Today’s Americans ain't gonna give America back to the Native Americans.
Might makes right.
Sure back then it sucked, it was wrong, but none of today's puritan politically correct people care.
You and I enjoy the spoils of that war.
Victors rule.

What Hitler and the Nazis did was hideous.
But isn't this Art thing just another example of the weirdness of war?
When Saddam said to the court, "I am Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq." he was right.

War is a fuzzy thing.
Screws with our logic, our sense of right and wrong.
Wars reset things, and not just boundries.

Sure what Hitler did was the worst, but I think it is dumb to try to undo the screwy results of a war.
If not, lets get all the white and black and Asian folk out of the land between the Pacific and the Atlantic.
Ain't gonna happen.
Why?
Wars reset things.

well,concerning art and other values,Russians solved the problem:if the country where from the thing is coming did not fought against Russia/USSR,they can get it back.
So everything remained in the same place.
Not too many countries were not in war with them......