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Porcelain seized by Nazis goes up for auction in New York (British English)
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29 August 2021
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Once the Nazis came to power in 1933 they were persecuted because of Franz Oppenheimer’s Jewish origins, and forced to flee in December 1936 to the relative safety of Vienna. They paid a punitive flight tax to the Nazi government and were able to take some of their Meissen porcelain with them in crates. A little over a year later, they managed to escape to Budapest carrying only hand luggage, one day before German troops entered Austria and Adolf Hitler declared the Anschluss with Germany. (English)