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The entire Altmann family was targeted by Austrian Nazis. More specifically, a notorious Gestapo agent and SS officer named Felix Landau (1910-1983) focused his attention on the family after the Anschluss: by April 1938 he had imprisoned more than two-dozen members in the factory of Bernhard Altmann (the leading producer of knit71Ferdinand’s Schloss until she fled the Soviets in April 1945.Ferdinand Bloch-BauerRed Army completed the plundering begun by the Nazis). 68Altmann lost a diamond necklace given to her by Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer as a weddingby the Gestapo. Gustav died not long after the Anschluss on 2 July 1938.Mariapresent (it had belonged to Adele), as well as her engagement ring.husband Friedrich (Fritz) Altmann (1908-1994) were also forced to relinquish the car they had received from the latter’s brother, Bernhard: Gestapo agents arrived in mid-March, shortly after the Anschluss, and took it from the garage.goods in Austria and Maria’s brother-in-law) (English)
Along with SS-Brigadeführer Kajetan Mühlmann,Landau seized about a hundred artworks from Bernhard, including paintings by Klimt,Degas, Canaletto, and Waldmüller. Some of these works were never recovered by the7576Altmann family. (English)
Bernhard Altmann
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