https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-12771188.html
Albright Family does not want to return artwork obtained during WWII
Madelaine Albright, Secretary of State in the Clinton administration between 1997 and 2001
Translation of parts of the article from the German Magazine "Der Spiegel" in 1999
For it seems that their families still own valuable objects that once belonged to the Nebrichs in Prague. And apparently they do not want to give them back.
In doing so, they are invoking highly suspicious law - decrees issued by the Czechoslovak post-war president Eduard Benes in 1945, under which the property of all Germans was confiscated.
The American Congress has long been urging the Eastern European reform states to reverse post-war expropriations and repeal discriminatory laws: Now the family of the American Secretary of State, of all people, is suspected of having enriched itself with the help of the controversial Benes decrees.
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"I assured attorney Jaffe at a meeting in Washington that if all three siblings declared in writing that they had nothing more of our things, the matter was settled for us," Harmer says. The Korbel family did not react to this.
Apparently with good reason. It is now certain that Josef Korbel's children actually have paintings from the Nebrich estate hanging in their apartments. The "Washington Post" author Michael Dobbs discovered some of them at Albright's brother John's house.