Word: feliciano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason L. Freidenfelds Brian R. Friedman Virginia S. Fuller David J. Fusco Raefer C. Gabriel...
...Feliciano's story raised some eyebrows in France when his book came out nearly two years ago, and the 2,000 remaining objects left over from the war were put on a special retrieval display last April. As luck would have it, the French television news program I worked on this summer had mistakenly accused the French National Museum of deliberately sabotaging the retrieval of looted art, and was doing a follow-up story this summer...
These paintings, however, had always been marked as part of the French retrieval effort. Why now, should there be a stink about unclaimed objects that belonged to Holocaust victims or even survivors who have not reclaimed their art in the last 50 years? Feliciano betrayed some the faulty logic of this hullaballoo in The New York Times article: "'I asked people why they never investigated,' Mr. Feliciano said, 'and they said they had more important things to deal with... They said they were so happy to live that they didn't ask for material things...
...would probably have tried to recover it. If you survived the war and your father owned a Monet, you may also have tried to recover it. And 45,000 objects were reclaimed after the war. But if 50 years later, you realize as a result of Feliciano's book that your grandfather may have owned a Monet, do you have a right to it? That is far from obvious. But even if the answer to this question is yes, the French government will give and always would have given you back the artwork if you are the rightful heir...
Only a handful of very precious art was part of the 2,000 unclaimed objects, and the proof of the overreaction surrounding "The Lost Museum" is that only one legitimate claim has resulted from the publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that...