Word: zwinger
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...stumbled on the treasure, 2,000 feet underground in a German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
Soviet officers were showing U.S. correspondents through Germany's Russian zone. Proudly they pointed out the war-battered Zwinger in Dresden. Plans were well under way, they boasted, for restoring the museum. But where were all the paintings listed in the catalogue...
...minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...Zwinger's treasures have reportedly been "given" outright to Russia. The donors: an all-Russian "Trophy Commission." England, France and the U.S. have jointly asked Moscow to account for the art treasures it has removed, but so far they have had no answer...