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Admittedly I got sucked into it specifically by terms like 'nazi gold train' and 'treasure' and hadn't thought at all about the provenance of the objects within the train.
That said if there is indeed a train filled with nazi loot I would still love to see it excavated.
Is there a code of conduct or some type of repatriation (for lack of a better word) in place for stolen artworks and objects?
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There's an enormous amount of post-Nazi legislation. I don't understand it very well. With such a huge amount of injustice perpetrated, the legislation trying to put it right needs to be pretty complicated itself.
Anyway, I hope that however this turns out it can still be dealt with in a reasonable fashion.
Oliver Schick
I think it could potentially be an incredibly hard and traumatic find for descendants or friends of those who had their valuables stolen from them. Obviously, fewer and fewer witnesses will remain alive the longer this drags on, but there may well be family heirlooms uncovered that are still known to the survivors.
The main thing that still annoys me about the reporting is that this is 'treasure', as well as the term 'gold train', and indeed anything that makes it sound like the next Indiana Jones instalment. If it exists, it's a tainted object that will require a lot of extremely careful archaeology and restitution, where that is even still possible.