A Holocaust survivor is seeking the restitution of his father’s Nazi-looted poster collection. The Associated Press reported that Peter Sachs of Florida was a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized the collection and his family fled to the United States.
Sachs returned to Germany for the first time Tuesday in an attempt to retrieve the thousands of first-run prints, which could be worth up to $50 million.
His father, Hans, the foremost poster collector in Germany when Nazi official Joseph Goebbels seized his collection, received $50,000 in compensation from Germany after the war, when it was believed the posters had been destroyed.
In fact, 4,300 prints remain and are on display at the German Historical Museum, which inherited them from East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Seeking their return, Sachs will testify Thursday at a government commission in Berlin.
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