Supposedly, the Nazis sank their own ship to avoid the British finding their cargo, which legend says was a hoard of gold. Minden ran into a British ship off the coast of Iceland. On its way from Rio de Janeiro to Germany in 1939, the Nazi ship S.S. READ MORE: Four Works of Nazi-Looted Art Identified and Returned to Jewish Family 6. Seventy-five years later, there is still no trace of the lost masterpiece. troops arrested Frank at the castle that year, the painting-along with more than 800 other artifacts- was missing. During the war, it traveled to Berlin, Dresden and Linz before returning to Kraków, where Frank hung it in Wawel Castle. The Nazis filched the painting from the Prince Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, Poland in 1939.Īt first, the painting went to Hans Frank, who ran the Nazi General Government in Poland. The Nazis stole a lot of paintings during WWII, but one of the most famous and historically important ones to go missing is Portrait of a Young Man by the revered Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Fortunately, Chinese researchers made casts of the fossils before they disappeared, so scientists can still study them today. Marine base in China and covered by an asphalt parking lot.
In 2012, researchers suggested they may have been buried at a former U.S. Some have speculated the fossils were destroyed, but others have hope that they’re still around. Yet these “Peking Man” fossils, as they were known, never arrived. In September 1941, China sent 200 early human fossils to the U.S.
Not all lost WWII treasures are man-made. Reconstruction of Peking Man's skull, by Franz Weidenreich.
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