NAZIS LOOTED A BUTLER'S BATHROOM
Vienna head of the Rothschild clan, Baron Louis von Rothschild who was reported to have paid the Nazis £7,000,000 to get out of Ger- " many, still had a few assets. But most of them had yet to be claimed and this week he was back in Vienna to rescue the family fortune. Under the American draft of the Austrian peace treaty he is entitled to get back what is left, to demand reparations from the Austrian Government for what has been looted. On his way to Vienna from New York, where he recently became an American citizen, Rothschild . attended an exhlbition of paintings in Paris where pictures stolen by the Nazis were being displayed before being returned to their owners. Rothschild saw a Renoir he liked, asked the exhibition manager who owned it. "You do," said the manager. Rothschild was insisting that he did not when his buter chipped in: "But it is yours, sir. You had it hanging in my bathroom for 15 years/'
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1947, Page 3
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