“The British Museum must return the Parthenon Marbles?’ The question is posed by Süddeutsche Zeitung and gives two different answers. One of the editors, Raphael Geiger, answers in the affirmative, while recalling the latest Greek-British frictions: “The conservative (prime minister Kyriakos) Mitsotakis has nothing to lose, the marbles have been removed a long time ago and in Athens no one expects that suddenly will be returned. But if Mitsotakis succeedswill become a new Greek hero. In any case, something will win, even if it’s just applause, because he doesn’t leave the matter to chance. And he’s right. That the British have not yet managed to secede the stolen treasure, it is shameful.”

Different opinion has another editor of the paper, Gustav Zelbt. Among other things, he writes: “In the Museum, in this modern European invention, it is inevitable to find works of art that have been detached from their original contexts. Arriving at the Museum, they emerge as works of art in the modern sense, as objects of aesthetic appreciation.”

With regard to the Parthenon Marbles in particular, he notes: “Whoever crosses the long corridor with these sculptures in the British Museum, is also looking for the land of the Greeks there with the eyes of his soul. But at the same time he sees the Greeks in their proximity to many other cultures and realizes their uniqueness, in a much more radical way.”