Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crumbs of Loot. Cried Mohandas K. Gandhi last week when he heard of the trip: "Big merchants, capitalists, industrialists and others speak and write against the [British] Government, but in action do its will and even profit through it. ... [Independence] will come only when interests, big or small, are prepared to forgo the crumbs that fall to them from partnership with the British in the loot which British rule takes from India...
Nothing Left to Loot. Finally, there was nothing left to pillage. Hundreds of merchants were ruined. It would take days to clear the debris-strewn streets...
...siding, stealthily loaded with one of the richest art collections in the world. Art-lover Hermann Göring, hastily moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...Another art cache (some $10 million worth), was found in a village near Vicenza, Italy: more German loot lifted from Italian museums. Packed in 23 cases, it included Donatello sculpture, rare coins...
Basic rule: if it is militarily useful and workable, captured government property belongs to the government whose troops seize it. But, in 1943, the U.S. and 16 other United Nations promised to return any recovered German loot to the original owners. Some of the gold may have come from Belgium, Czechoslovakia. The Italians, who probably have no legal claim under the declaration, thought the cache might contain some of the 119-ton gold reserve filched from Rome by retreating Germans...