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February 8th, 2018 
Awake Goy By German Art Gallery
Recently the Louvre is showing Nazi-looted art in a bid to find its owners. The idea is to encourage the descendants of the works’ original owners to come forward and reclaim what is rightfully theirs.
However, the Louvre also owns art which was stolen by the French state from Germany at the end of World War II.
Would it not make sense that the Louvre also returns this looted art to Germany?
German Art Gallery has asked mr. Sebastien Allard, Chief Curator of the Louvre, to return two gobelins by Werner Peiner – each containing 3,5 kilogram gold threads – to the Federal Republic of Germany.
The huge gobelins named ‘Char de Chevaux‘ (‘Der Geist‘) and ‘Char de Taureax‘ (‘Die Fruchtbarkeit‘) were stolen by the French Republic in 1945. Notwithstanding protests by the British Administration in 1945 against this illegal action, France transported these art works -which are part of the ‘Von Ribbentrop collection’- to Paris.
German Art Gallery reported to the German Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues (BADV) about the location of the stolen gobelins, which were until recently thought to be lost. The BADV has confirmed to us that they have informed the German Federal Minister of Finance.
The Centre Pompidou earlier published on internet documents in which the illegal confiscation of these gobelins were described in detail. Meanwhile they have removed them. German Art Gallery is in the possession of hard copies of these documents, please see below some relevant quotes.
We are waiting for an answer of the Chief Curator of the Louvre.
‘Char de Chevaux‘, measuring 4,9 meter by 3,6 meter, and ‘Char de Taureaux‘, measuring 4.91 meter by 3.70 meters. Both goblins, each containing 3,5 kilogram gold-threads, were created for the official residence of Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop in Berlin. They were made in Germany, and fully paid by Germany.
The Centre Pompidou Documents
(DOC/M5050/M5050_A/M5050_ARCV001_DP-2006059)
The tapestries ‘Char de Chevaux’ and ‘Char de Taureax’ by Werner Peiner were made for the official residence of Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop in Berlin. In 1945 these huge gobelins, located in Germany, were confiscated by the French and send to Paris; the French thought by mistake that they were produced in Paris during the war.
In documents of the Centre Pompidou -on page 60- we read that the French Representative of the Central Collecting Point Munich somewhat later concludes that these two gobelins were not produced in France, but in Munich, and were also fully paid by Germany (“Le tapis n’a pas été tissé par la Manufacture Francaise des Gobelins, comme cela nous avait été primitivement déclaré…. D’une nouvelle enquette auprès de la Manufacture Allemand de Gobelins de Nymphenburg, il résulte que ce tapis a été tissé par cette manufacture. Les fils d’or lui furent par le parti nazi…”).
On page 56 the same authority even states: “Ces pieces on été payees et je ne sais pas jusqu’ `a quell point nous avons le droit de les revindiquer.” In English: “These Gobelins are paid -by Germany- and I don’t believe we have any right at all to confiscate them”.
Also the ‘Chef de la Mission Francaise pour les Reparations et Restitutions en zone britanniqui’ writes in the Centre Pompidou documents that the British Administration stated that the French had no right to claim the (complete) Ribbentrop collection of gobelins: there was no evidence at all that they were made in France during the war.
On page 62, we read that the French decided in 1951 to give back only one gobelin to Germany. But they did not; they kept both gobelins.
All relevant art- and historical books inform us that these two gobelins are lost. But they are not, they are simply in the possession of the Louvre.
Source Article from http://www.renegadetribune.com/looted-art-treated-double-standards-louvre-returns-art-stolen-nazis-not-return-art-stolen-french-state-inbox-x/
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