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Unraveling the Mystery of the "Dead City"
A painting by Egon Schiele titled "Dead City" belonged to Fritz Grunbaum and his wife before they died in the Holocaust. A quarter of a century later the struggle for recovering art raided by the Nazis still lasts as heirs try to reclaim the work.
Tags: Austria; WWII; Leopold Museum; Eberhard Kornfeld; Otto Kallir; Vienna; seizure;
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Tollway Junket
"The North Texas Tollway Authority, a public entity, sent 5 representatives on an all-expenses paid trip to Vienna, Austria to attend the International Bridge, Tunnel and Tollway Association's annual meeting. The trip cost tollway users more than $42,000 dollars and our hidden cameras revealed some representatives dining on five star meals, catered by companies with multi-million dollar construction contracts."
Tags: North Texas Tollway Authority; transportation; roads; toll roads; Texas; conflict of interest; funding; hidden camera; budget; public;
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Final victims
CNN exposes Dr. Heinrich Gross and the Nazi campaign of medicine against the useless. Dr. Gross participated in the killing of hundreds of children at the Vienna State Psychiatric Hospital during the Nazi era. Gross continues to be a well-respected member of the Viennese medical community and to this day has never been tried for murder.
Tags: TAPE Austria
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No title (id: 12489)
This story is the culmination of 10 years of reporting on the fate of thousands of artworks looted from victims of the Holocaust. In 1984, ARTnews revealed the Austrian government's neglect, hostility and questionable legal maneuvers in returning the works to their rightful owners in A Legacy of Shame: Nazi Art Loot in Austria. Nearly every since, ARTnews correspondents have reported on the problem. Last July, the Austrian parliament passed a law transferring ownership of the nearly 8,000 items to the Jewish Community of Vienna. (September 1995)
Tags: Waxman Austria: ending the legacy of shame Contest entry Museum 6 pgs.
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No title (id: 10535)
World Watch reveals how the the United Nations agency entrusted with guarding nuclear technology has been too busy promoting it throughout the world; the International Atomic Energy Agency has pushed third world countries towards nuclear energy even as Western countries have leaned away from it, March/April 1994.
Tags: Vienna Ryan 3 pages