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May 26, 2021 23 tweets 11 min read
A look at Arthur Pfannstiel.
(Adolf Wuester Nazi art looting connection)

a thread... Member of staff of ERR, Bordeaux and of GIS. Friend of von Behr, for whom he is said to have acted as an informer. In touch with Wuester. Believed under indictment for espionage. Now in Fresne Prison, Paris in custody of Seine Tribunal-ALIU Final Report
lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661
Jan 15, 2021 5 tweets 5 min read
The erasure of links to Degussa AG’s Holocaust crimes in #Wikipedia was not limited to English.
On July 8, 2008, #German user CHEMIEWIKIBM moved Degussa to Evonik Degussa
web.archive.org/web/2021011508… In the French #Wikipedia, on the 21 of May 2008, a user named SNIPRE attempted to redirect DEGUSSA to EVONIK
web.archive.org/web/2021011508…

English, German, French Wikipedias, 3 different Users, all performing the same action - one which occulted DEGUSSA‘s Holocaust crimes.
Jan 14, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
A Thread About Disappearing History on Wikipedia

1. Once upon a time, Wikipedia had a page about a company named Degussa.
Degussa had an ugly past, related to the extermination of the Jews in Europe.
(Today, that page exists only in the internet archive.)
web.archive.org/web/2006102408… Image Degussa's Degesch created Zyklon B.
"In 1930, Degussa ceded 42.5 percent ownership of Degesch to IG Farben and 15 percent to Th. Goldschmidt AG, in exchange for the right to market pesticide products of those two companies through Degesch. Degussa retained managerial control." Image
Dec 12, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
The #TrumpCrimeFamily has much to teach us about Nazi looted art. Lesson Number 1: Root out integrity in all institutions that can investigate, prosecute, judge and execute sentences on crimes and put into positions of power co-conspirators, criminals, cowards, and the compromised (blackmail).
👉Investigations should start at the top
#artcrime