Hanover mayor Belit Onai said: “We will continue to further our investigation into our city’s Nazi past.”
THE city of Hanover returned to Greece an ancient vase from the collection of the August Kestner Museum, which was stolen by the Nazis during the Occupation. “The results of the investigation had shown that the early Corinthian object can be considered war loot from a German military geologist in occupied Greece during World War II,” Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.
Hanover Mayor Belit Onai said: “We will continue to advance our research into our city’s Nazi past and we will continue intensively our recovery efforts.”
“According to the research, the military geologist and university professor Hanfrit Pucher he probably found the vessel in a borehole on the Isthmus of Corinth on September 21, 1943. Pucher also existed Schutzstaffel (SS) officer’ the newspaper reports. The geologist considered the valuable vessel a spoil of war.
The mayor of Hanover and the Consul General of Greece Ioannis Vikelidis participated in the handover ceremony.
Source :Skai
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