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Re: Stolen property
Ed
It depends on what you consider by everything. The general problem is that that German authorities refuse any actions in this regard. It is supposed that there are several robbed goods in vast stocks of various German national galleries, but without official approval it is not possible to conduct any search. It is even worse with private collections or with goods that were then looted by Allied soldiers or institutions. In the effect Poland cannot recover vast part of its own collections.
As a side note, I suppose that living in Anglo-Saxon country, your perspective is a little bit different, but here in Poland and in Czech republic, where we are neighbouring with Germany, we have it just in front of us. Quite recently German CDU/CSU parties made a statement that was clearly understood as a demand of returning to the Germans of property that was handed over to Poland and Czechoslovakia, based on Yalta and Potsdam treaties. This was just one of several similar actions undertaken in recent few years. It looks that some are allowed to dwell and complain, and some are not. We have lost too much due to German and Soviet occupation, to allow it to happen again.
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