The Flamenbaums lose ('NY court rules ancient gold tablet belongs to Berlin museum, not Holocaust survivor’s heirs', Associated Press, Thursday, November 14, 2013):
New York’s highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum [Berlin's Vorderasiatisches Museum] that lost it in World War II. The Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Riven Flamenbaum’s estate is not entitled to the 3,000-year-old Assyrian relic,[...] “We decline to adopt any doctrine that would establish good title based upon the looting and removal of cultural objects during wartime by a conquering military force,” the court said in a memorandum. “The ‘spoils of war’ theory proffered by the estate — that the Russian government, when it invaded Germany, gained title to the museum’s property as a spoil of war, and then transferred that title to the decedent — is rejected.”
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