Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Domestic and foreign banking in Germany will be supervised. Loot taken from occupied countries will be recovered and returned. Germans will be forced to compensate expropriated Jews, other oppressed people in Germany "and the occupied countries...
Embalming Fluid. In Boston, thieves robbed a tavern of 25 cases of liquor, removed their loot in a stolen hearse...
Sunburned Captain Eric Strologo of His Majesty's Royal Artillery parked his truck in front of British headquarters and went inside. When he returned he found a young Maltese searching the truck for loot. He marched the boy off to the Military Police. They told him it was clearly a case for Maltese civil police. At police headquarters the boy was released, Strologo clapped in jail for unauthorized arrest of a Maltese citizen. That was July 14, 1943. Captain Strologo is still in jail...
...centuries Europe's almost continu ously warring countries have looted each other's art, or callously shattered what they did not loot, leaving the fragments to antiquarians and U.S. tourists. Last week the current concern with the fate of Euro pean art treasures...
...Latest loot: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb which was last week reported in Berchtesgaden...