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  • such bullshit this guy doesnt care about the painting he wants the cash!! blame all you wANT then every government should give back everything they stole from every one starting with the indians,

  • @darius28z Exactly!

  • If the Inca sued it might work. But they didn't. Quichabichin.

  • Mr. Cassirer deserves to have his family's painting back. It is immoral to retain such a property, stolen by the Nazi government. This video shows how western culture permits such extortion and theft if an excuse can be provided.

  • This man deserves his painting back,or a full reimbersment !Spain should be ashamed for keeping stolen property [from the nazis].They should at least be fair with this man and reimberse him.This is so typical of what the German nazis did,they destroyed so many peoples lives.

  • @TheDiane1953 The Spanish state is not responsible and has no reason to feel shame. Nonetheless if the picture was taken illegally then it needs to be returned and the entity who sold the picture needs to refund the museum. (The same needs to happen throughout the purchase chain.)

  • Roast all Nazis over hot coals, very slowly.

  • @madisonelectronic not brutal enough

  • This guy needs to be happy the painting even survived the war. The grandparents were naive fools for not taking the painting down and hiding it and any other valuables before any appraiser of the state came, particularly a criminal state such as nazi germany, but it is true of any representatives of any country or state government. Before you let these criminals into your house, you make the place look like a rummage sale.

  • ya know...Jew is not a nationality..it is a ''monetary view on the globe''

  • hi's not telling the truth , bad vibe coming from this guy:)

  • Yeah that is messed up. So when they look at the painting on the wall they could think of him and his grandmother and what the nazis did stealing all that stuff from the jews. Its definitely a sad situation. I hope he gets it back.

  • "Stolen" he claims! And "Stolen" is what millions of Germans call the huge tracts of land taken from Germany after defeat. Millions lost their farms, houses, businesses, they lost EVERYTHING; STOLEN FROM THEM.

  • They were the agressor, they know what comes with defeat and i'm referring to the Nazis, for the Treaty of Versailles after world war one that was unfair and what i would argue led to Hitler's rise.

  • I hope they will get it all back.

  • No kidding, it's just sad that no one ever thinks about the german people. No one cares it just makes me sick. It's just like everyone thinks that every german soldier was a Nazi. Don't the ones that were not Nazi's deserve any respect for how hard they fought, allied soldiers did/do

  • Sad for his family...

    Spain should pay him what it`s worth then keep it in a museum...

    He would not be able to protect it getting it back.

    If it`s truely his which I can see it is clearly.

  • he deserves it

  • they should give him back the painting thieves how hard is that

  • It is stolen, I wonder what will Americans will do, because now a system, that is simular to the Nazis of Germany in the 30's, and for anyone dealing with Institutions, or governments that want to drag there feet on cases of obvious theft of the common man, do as they would do to you, in the end "sell" it to five other people, just to show ownership with you being the present owner...

  • great, can we now have back all the stuff america stole ?

  • Make a movie, put on YouTube, so we can all be informed about, things America stole !!

  • make a movie ? can't you read books ?

    they are called history books.

    of course american history is correct and

    others can't possibly have info that the us doesn't.

    you ignorant brainwashed maruta,

    just research bush'es grandpa and his banking sceme with that nazi bank in the netherlands.

    you'll learn how his kids got the money to buy

    presidency.

    yes, money from killed jew's flowed straight into his pockets.

    i would call that stealing.

  • Very Good ! so... why don't you make a movie about it ? so we all see it and comment on it !!

    Today's YouTube is perfect avenue to show to the world, things America stole !!

    Other guys are doing movies, short information and facts oriented movies, you should do it too.... !!

  • lol, maybe i will.

    but there already is such an abundance allready.

    but thanks for the motivational speach. :-)

  • you welcome

  • arka67. You and dieper2dieper made me laugh so hard. I am a youtube junkie. Question: If a movie was created to reveal the history of "America stole" would this make us all conspirators to theft for watching it? lol. With the Patriot Act, I would be frightened to make any sort of comment. lol.

  • you would not be a conspirator, USA is a free country, Canada too. It easy to jump on US, or other democratic countries, But, I like democracy, is not perfect, but at the end of day, lest 150 years, progress humanity did, I would attribute to Democracy and Christianity. Look at Iran, they killed so many people last week, still you find so many people on YT, who will say, it's west and Isreal to be blame.

  • @arka67 no just humans just evolved chritsianity had nothing to do with it

  • @chitownzfinesthustla

    really ?? last 70K -150K, years humans managed to walk on earth, but only last 400 years we managed to build machines, make real progress in medicine or Science. Almost all coming from Europe.

    If Christianity would not be introduced in Europe over 1000 years ago, it would never happen !! Structure of the family and concept of State Nations with rule of laws, based on Values and Justice.

  • @arka67 oh dumass we look at ancient china or greece we had machines dumass europe rule in justice lol you guys stole whole conttinents massacred the natives in celebrated the killers like columbus

  • @chitownzfinesthustla

    I never suggested it's perfect world !!

    Still, last 400 years started with Copernicus on.... Newton till Einstein.. all happen in Europe, you can't take that away.

    I do not want to take anything away from ancient China or Greece. But to compeer Today's "western World" to China 2000 years ago, it's like compeering Tata to BMW !

  • @arka67 newton american einstein american in he loved black pple lol edison american nikola teslav da greatest scientist ever lol i win not europe

  • @chitownzfinesthustla

    I take this comment as a joke !

    americian and serbian are part of European christian heritage !

    and don't bring race in to this discussion !

  • @arka67 no no no christians were originally from the middle east in black you know its the truth in religion was actually a adherence to societal avdancement

  • @arka67 no lets compare what have really acomplished most of the world is still 3rdworld pple starve in nobody cares when millions die in the europeans who have the power to stop this wont and in fact caused most of this

  • by the way !

    what is MARUTA ??

  • search maruta unit 731.

    but don't view it just after your lunch.

    it's a pretty crual period in history, and it's on video, right here on youtube.

    and yes, of course the US has a glamerous role in this story as well.

    sorry if you think i was insulting you.

    i was merely disrespecting you because i've

    mistaken you for a american brainwashed patriot.. :-(

  • I am not American. Still, I was called much worst then that... YouTube is a special place... no one is innocent... even monks from Tibet are the "bad guys" !!

    No country... no nation... is innocent ! All there is.. a degree of guilt....

  • lol get over it, baby.

  • What is with american society and our obsession with talking about and demonizing the nazis? sometimes people even praise stalin!

  • Stolen?! Your family traded it so you could stay out of a concentraton camp!

    How do think it is still yours?!

    And if you accepted compensation then you don't have a leg to stand on!

    Typical Jew causing problems and controversy!

  • Interesting thought process. How does "leave the painting or I will put you somewhere where you will die horribly" become a fair trade? How is that different than "give me your money or I'll shoot you"? Both are stealing. Your blind hatred of jews has skewed your entire view of morality.

  • I don't Hate any race since there smart and useless people in every race.

    No matter who makes the terms of a deal, If you agree then thats it!

    And if you accept compensation which would have conditions they you have no leg to stand on.

    And not all people who were in a concentration camp died! Infact some were treated well compaired to others.

  • Ok that is flawed on so many levels it boggles the mind. It was not an agreement. It was an ultimatum. And the phrase "typical Jew causing problems" does not imply any level of tolerance or understanding on your part. If I replace the word Jew in that sentence with "Black person" how would you suspect I feel about that race?

  • If you don't understand my previous comments then you need to learn international laws and common sense.

    Jewish people are known for causing comtroversy. By wasting time and money of numerous countries and there legal system only to be told in the end "it is no longer yours!" I guess that makes more sense to you?

    If you are one of those people who whine and complain about race like some kind of cop-out then that's your problem!

  • You made the race comment, I called you on it and simply pointed out your comment on Jews was wrong headed and reprehensible. You are arguing a point that has no merit which makes continuing this pointless. As there is no desire on your part to broaden your thought process, and since you twisted what I said into something completely distorted, I don't wish to continue this dialogue.

  • I made my point and stated basic laws which you are obvoiusly not familiar with!

    And if I have no merit then he would have got the painting back!

    Your lack of knowledge and education is evident in your statements! Only a weak minded fool would not recognise the challenges of this case. But to make excuses for self-gain when property no longer belongs to you then that is just plain selfish!

  • Relax. Your missing every point I'm making and I am uneducated? Ok first, you don't know anything about me. Second you're rude and callous. Third, you're boring. I couldn't care less about the legal points of this case. I was commenting on your generalities and what is fair vs. what is legal. Can we stop now?

  • Your not making any point, your complaining!

    Your the one who is Boring since you can't even make a legitimate arguement!

    And if you could careless about the legal points then you are an unrealistic person!

  • OK... here's a point. You're an idiot.

  • Go read a book and pull your head out of your ass! It will obviously do you some good! lol

  • Apeboy - seriously ... you are really trying way too hard ... draconian ... ad hominem ... it's a little above your pay grade I'm afraid. Leave the big words to the more educated.

  • in the beginning stalin send even more russian jews over to germany than germany might had itself..

    stalin killed even more people than hitler..

    many tyrans get forgotten, and hitler is the scapegoat, like the jews were back then, or still are.

  • plunders of war will continue as the leaders are all in bed w/each other. this man is out gunned and out numbered by the elite of the world who share in all our fruits of labor.

  • ApeBoy, You racist asshole. Your slut whore mammy should have popped you in the incinerator after birth. One less mental defect walking this earth.

  • ApeBrain

    You and your kind are a piece of human excrement. Burn in hell you racist bowel movement.

  • The jewish people werent the only people the nazi's killed.

    just remember that.

  • good point. that seems to have been forgotten. People with disabilities were also deemed to be deficient by the nazis. As were the elderly, the infirm and the ill. What I find ironic is the fact that many people now proclaiming themselves to be nazis fail to understand that under the 'real' nazi movement, they too would would have been exterminated. Hitlers parameters for the so called 'super race' were so narrow that the majority of the western population would have failed to meet his criteria

  • yup

    and this man does deserve his painting back

  • loneil70 what you say is the absolute truth, i don´t understand this behavior in a modern human.

  • fyi, about 25 million people were killed, out of them 6 million were jews.

  • Assholes like you should be killed Apelyncher. Would make the world a better place.

  • Everyone knows That the Jews lie and steal,greed is in their nature. That is why the Final Solution was such a great ideal,too bad it was never completed. 1488

  • It is sad, tcwerning, how many Nazis are still out there... Every dead Nazi makes the world a better place. Put all Nazis, Facists, fanatical Islamists, fanatic Communiusts together in a big stadion, give them weapons, and transmit the funny war to the world. the few winners then get a small island to live somewhere far from any place they could poison with ther mental illness...

  • i agree with u, but "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

  • Let me guess here ... "holodenier" ... No one can take you seriously. You are a human Ostridge - except you have your head buried up your ass you can't see the facts. I'm not Jewish but you just helped me understand the extent of stupidity these people deal with. I sure hope you aren't Christian because you are making us look like idiots. For all you Jews out there - please don't judge us by this chatter head. How embarrassing ...

    your moniker precludes you from being taken seriously.

  • 636117 - Thanks for so clearly expressing your antisemitic character. Do you actually believe a Mormon or a Catholic or a Muslim ect... would not be enraged if they found their stolen property and were told they could not have it back??? Are you trying to tell us that YOU would be just fine to have your property stolen, and your family murdered? You can't actually believe only Jews get mad at having their stuff stolen and family killed. hahahaha

  • Just another case of a money-hungry Jew. They can't change their spots (or greed, in this case). He was paid in 1958, and is now unhappy about that, and wants another bite at the Apple.

    Sorry, Mr Jew, it doesn't work that way. BTW, get out of the West Bank, it doesn't belong to you either.

  • He just wants to sell it

  • don't why these people didn't hide this stuff and why they didn't leave the country in the early 1930's

  • The Spanish will never return it, there keepers not givers.

  • this is like asking the Israelis to return to the Palastinians their long stolen home. Will Israel agree to that? i don't think so :)

  • Should the kindhearted winners give back property they stole as well? Oops..., sorry. It wasn't stealing, it was taking "war booty". That's different from "plunder". I was told that there is a statue in Berlin of a Russian soldier, solemnly pointing at the ground, where his comrades were buried. The Germans joked that the reason he was pointing at the ground, and not the sky, was that he was wearing so many stolen German wristwatches that he was unable to raise his arm any higher.

  • this video was good

    lets chat mq

  • if thats the case than yale should return all the shit they have in their museum from the inca culture because it is all stolen.

  • The Spanish Government should give back this painting to the gentleman in question because it was stolen from his family in the first place and should remain stolen property until it is returned to its rightful owner. That is what justice should be about.

  • Excuse me?!?!

  • that is right u can't keep something that is stolen and part of NAZI crime to humanity..

  • it was war. americans and russians stole eveything they could lay their hands on as well.

  • i agrie with you george

  • fucking nazis...

  • have you all ever heard about a painter/artist made a crime, maybe yes, but I never heard one yet.. what I'm trying to say is thats the one way to feel better for a painter when Angry, have a problem, heart broken e.t.c. not like the other, some will hurt somebody, some will kill, some will look for fight e.t.c. just don't hate pls

  • I don't know why theres a lot a people don't appreciate art? Coz I'ts just a drawing or some shit like that? Do you know how hard to make one? Did you ever think why It cost a lot?.. think more.. If you can't make one who cares, thats not what you like who cares.. we all born different from each other..

  • ... its just a painting...

    Oil on canvas.

  • It's so stupid to hear that from you. since I was a kid I was into art already then your gonna say that? some people like you don't appreciate whats on our mind. I'm not a very good painter but that's my way to express myself. every piece of art has a meaning.. your just saying that because you don't know shit about it.

  • Doesnt change anything.

    The fact still remains, its just a painting.

    Im still correct.

  • It's more than that. This painting was his Grandmother's work. It is what remains of his happy life before Nazi Germany. Can you blame him from wanting back what reminds him of his dead Grandmother?

  • it just says it was his grandmothers, as in she owned it, it doesnt say that she was the artist who made it... and i think it would be alittle hard to believe that nazi's would want jewish made art anyway, rite?

    If i die, are my grandchildren really going to want my computer or my spatula? They will if its worth millions.

    If his grandmother was the artist tho, i think this would be a different story, and i would agree with you.

  • i would want the old computer or anything like that old that reminded me of my past

  • fuck your dumb are you american ??

  • listen im going to come around to yours around 2pm and take all your stuff photos camera mobile phone tv any pets gold money ect THEN PUT A GOOD NAZI FAMILY INTO THE VACANT HOME then take you and your family and stick them on a train for a week with 1000 others take them to a camp kill them and then steal any gold fillings from the dead body JUST A PAINTING DID YOU EVER GO TO SCHOOL OR WATCH A WAR FILM OR GET EUROPEAN HISTORY DOESNT BLOODY SOUND LIKE IT

  • just replace "good nazi family" with "jewish settlers" in that sentance and im pretty sure you have the west bank.

  • I get what you're saying, but you have to look at it really closely lol. Yes, if anyone was put in that poor family's shoes they would hate it. They would also think it unfair that they would trade their life for a piece of art...just pitiful

  • he was a cute little boy when he was growning up

  • The painting have to be returned to the original owners , not that just one all the artworks that were stolen by the Germans during wwII

  • the murderous losers should give back his property. period.

  • Sad man...

  • FUCkING JEWS

  • you retarded dude...

  • IDIOT!!!!

  • what a jew!!!!

  • fuck it

  • FU*KING JEWS

  • FU*KING NAZIS

  • FUXKING FUCKERS

  • fuck you, you fucking fuck fuckers

  • Bad luck.

  • who the fuck do you think you are? If you don't like it don't look it up man and you better start using spell check you illiterate piece of shit. Take your racist propaganda back to your KKK buddies my friend.

  • I believe people should enlighten themselves about the rape of the art world by the Nazi's during World War 2 before they start debating this issue.

    Besides being rapist, thugs and killers the Nazi's were also very adept at being art thieves. They wrecked havoc in the art world and not only killed innocent men, women and children during their tyranical reign, but also stole most major art collections of prominent familes in Europe. The art needs to be returned to its rightful owners.

  • we have same cenario one of the famous painting by the Famous Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo "the spoularium painting" was displayed in Madrid Spain as part of compromised agreement the Philippine govt. bought the painting to get back the historical value of painting back to the Philippines and for the record Philippines was colonized by Spanish govt. from 1589-1898 so no doubt about it.

  • were the jews get the painting steal them or screw someone out of it

  • i feel bad for him

    i hope he gets the painting back

  • I think it's a shame that a museum should hold other peoples property. Didn't the Jews lose enough?

  • give it back!!!!

  • Pft. Museums claim is better than his. Plus a lot of people lost a hell of a lot more in that war. Plus I know for a fact he's got a stash of Jew gold. They all do.

  • what fact do you know? can you prove this? I think you're blowing smoke!

  • legal understanding of property rights should solve this easily alongside establishing veracity of complainants evidence of extortion

    by nazi officials

  • You can not obtain property rights on stolen goods. It does not matter if it hangs in a public museum or not. That it was stolen a few decades ago also makes no difference....

  • only if Hitler would have gotten a job as a painter.

  • I'd like to visit that museum

  • What if the museum offered to sell the painting to Claude for half of its' estimated value... although Claude thinks it's rightfully his, the museum had to pay for it.

  • Yeah, well, it's HIS.

  • stop with the hate comments!

  • go to "WARNING VLADIMIR PUTIN"

  • get a bucket of paint go to the museum and throw it over the painting , then tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine

  • If anything we should respect the Jew's. Many of them were able to rebuild their lives after the holocaust and do okay for themselves.Some of you lead pathetic lives to this day with no excuse.

  • Your a moron. All Jew's aren't even rich. And what's with this hate against the rich? I guess that's life. You work hard and make allot of money and your hated because you make wiser decisions then the majority of the idiot massess.

  • Hitler was a

    gay.

  • hitler had a wife, a mistress, and many of female lovers and killed gays along with the jews. He wasn't gay...

  • wow u are so ignorant

  • I'm glad hitler's dead. BTW follow your leader to hell.

  • Wow give this guy his painting back. That is just rediculous. Who cares about a Museum. This man's family went through hell why not do something to try and ease the pain and just give him the painting. The Museum wont run out of paintings to display lol its a museum.

  • Hate begets Hate...

  • You're not serious, are you?

  • this guys definitely lying

  • Simple. He deserves whats is originally his.

    Justice for this man.^^

  • nazi is the name of everyones hate.

  • poor guy.........just give it back to him......is his after all

  • It´s best that the people can see it at the Museum... 20 million USD is a great temptation for his family of course. Tragic history, but the world can now enjoy a masterpiece, at is was a legal operation.

  • This painting belongs to him.period.

  • Lawfully he is not the rightful owner of the painting (the law is clear on that much), however morally debatable the subject is. Interesting though.

  • hahaha 6:22 saw a hermraphrodite.

  • thanks for showing this museum.

    :) Ruben

  • The British stole my forefathers bronze works from the ancient kingdom of Benin. All attempts to get back those priceless works of arts has been met with strong resistance. Laughably the British authority claimed they were spoils of war. Imagin,You attack innocent people and steal there goods and call it spoils of war.

  • The bronze works of my forefathers were stolen by the British from the ancient kingdom of Benin. These priceless art works boldly exhibited in the British museum in London and they have refused to return them to the rightful owners.

  • what about the stolen GERMAN art, that is in the posession of american museums? remember the treasur of Quedlinburg? germany had to pay 5 million dollars to the heir of the thief! would you please talk about that too? 63years later....

  • It was his. There is a picture of it hanging in his Grandma's Home. The Spanish Govt. said the didn't have any reason to return it "Under Spanish Law". The Spanish "Law" doesn't make it right that the painting was stolen, found and held up in the face of it's rightful owner. It shows what "Spanish Law" is though.

    They know it's his. It's just that it is a Valuable item, which keeps them from doing the right thing and giving it back to that man.

    Freakin Nazis, Same as the Liberals of today.

  • watch?v=39XC2yUZZ68

  • mmm everyone knows that didnt happen