Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oliver M. Schmidt wishes he could be so lucky...
...Schmidt, a visiting fellow in the History Department, lost all of his research for his Ph.D. dissertation last Thursday evening when his bicycle and briefcase were stolen from outside Lehman Hall in the Yard...
...what a city boy shouldn't do," said Schmidt, who is from Germany. "I was tired, and I thought if I left my briefcase on the bike it would be safe. I only ran in for a minute to check my computer account...
...When Schmidt returned, his bike, briefcase and two years of research were gone...
Understandably, few German experts have much sympathy with this attitude, though most realize that direct demands for restitution will simply be rejected. "It was by no means necessary to transport the artworks to the Soviet Union for conservation," protests Werner Schmidt, general director of the Dresden State Art Collections and chairman of the joint Russo-German commission deliberating on the mutual return of art loot. In 1955, when the Russians returned paintings to the Dresden Gallery (in communist East Germany), they made a huge, face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found...