$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII

Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by vkou on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:29PM (#31279798)

You generaly loot from occupied territories, not from peer nations.

If Britain invades and occupies Egypt, and starts digging up artifacts that end up on a British museum, that's looting.

If some Frenchman digs up some artifacts in France, and then sells/trades/gives them to a British museum, that's not looting. Because the sale/trade/gift is not done at gunpoint.

In this case, if the artifact was not plundered from an (occupation of)/(war with Italy) to begin with, the most recent rightful owner is someone in Germany, not the nation of Italy.

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Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by Bayart on Friday May 06, 2022 @04:26AM (#31282768)

> If some Frenchman digs up some artifacts in France, and then sells/trades/gives them to a British museum, that's not looting

According to French law, it is both looting and traficking ;) We have a different approach to it than the British.

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Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by vkou on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:08PM (#31287524)

Sure, that may be the case - but my point is that if French law allowed what I described, it wouldn't be looting, because France is a peer of the UK, as opposed to a vassal.

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