Nazi Stolen Art at OU

[Rover]

If all is fair, the responsibility should flow back to the perpetrators. Ultimately, the German government should pay fair market value to OU and return the painting to the rightful owners from whom it was looted by the German military. The family should sue the people who took it.

[Midtowner]

When you look around and find yourself on the same side of history as the Nazi's, you should probably just give it back.

Godwin's Law.

[Just the facts]

When you look around and find yourself on the same side of history as the Nazi's, you should probably just give it back.

You mean by taking things just because you want them regardless of multiple international court rulings?

[Plutonic Panda]

I don't think this is a tough issue. Return the painting. As an alum, I'm embarrassed that we haven't already. I don't care what the law says, what's right?

I'll tell you what..... it's NOT right for me NOT to have a McLaren P1 and I don't care what the law says, I'm going to go take what is rightfully mine dammit!!!


I'm just kidding of course

[soonerfan_in_okc]

You mean by taking things just because you want them regardless of multiple international court rulings?

the only reason that lawsuit was dismissed back in the 50's was because it had been more than 5 years since it was stolen by the nazis. It never said that it wasn't stolen.

[Questor]

You know something else I find inconsistent - is many of the same people 'outraged' about this piece of art also support The State of Oklahoma building a Native American Cultural Center which by its very nature is the State taking ownership of Native American culture, boxing it up, marketing it and selling it at a profit for the State. Go figure.

One group has voluntarily provided support to their museum, and if an artifact is in dispute there is a process in place that allows for redress without having to resort to a lawsuit. The other does not. Apples and oranges.

[Questor]

I'm also shooting generally cynical eyeballs at anyone who equates returning stolen items to the original owner with a state organization "gifting" that item.

[dankrutka]

Stolen? It was the spoils of war. If every country returned every artifact it acquired during a war 90% of the stuff in 100% of the museums around the world would be gone. Maybe the next time some government goes door to door looting personal belongs the people will fight back a little harder.

Are you being serious? We're talking about Nazi's conducting a Holocaust. Your last sentence is absolutely disgusting. You're either incredibly uninformed about the Holocaust or you're a sick, sick person.

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all..." - Martin Luther King in Letter from the Birmingham Jail

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Accreditation board will not investigate University of Oklahoma museum's handling of Nazi-looted artwork | NewsOK.com

national museum accreditation board will not investigate the University of Oklahoma art museum’s handling of a case involving a painting that was looted by Nazi soldiers from a family in Paris during World War II, the group’s president said.

In a letter last week, Oklahoma Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, asked the American Alliance of Museums to investigate the accreditation status of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in light of the recent resignation of the museum’s director.