On Wednesday, Argentine police resumed their search for an Italian image from the 18th century that is thought to have been stolen from a Jewish collector 80 years ago by a Nazi fugitive who fled to Argentina following World War II.
Tuesday’s raid on a villa in a beach resort south of Buenos Aires reopened a dark chapter in this South American country’s history, which provided sanctuary to numerous Nazis who fled Europe to evade war crime prosecution, including prominent party members and infamous Holocaust architects like Adolf Eichmann.
Gold, bank deposits, paintings, sculptures, furniture, and other stolen Jewish property were taken by fugitive German fascists during the first term of Argentine General Juan Perón’s government, which lasted from 1946 until his overthrow in 1955.
This month, while looking for stolen artwork from the Netherlands, reporters for the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad noticed what looked to be the famous picture in a real estate ad for a house thought to belong to the relatives of Nazi fugitive Friedrich Kadgien.
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