Serious question: has anyone who works the holiday shift at ABC News ever opened a history book? Because this writer's 12-year-old son, who loves WWII, would be able to tell you a bunch of Nazis fled Europe after WWII and ended up in Argentina.
So it wasn't a surprise to him that artwork stolen by the Nazis is 'found' in Argentina.
But it is a surprise to ABC News, apparently:
An 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis during WWII is believed to have resurfaced in the most unexpected place: hanging above a sofa in a coastal Argentinian home and discovered not by law enforcement or a museum, but spotted in a photo on a real estate website.
The painting, 'Portrait of a Lady' by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch-Jewish art dealer whose collection of more than 1,100 works was seized after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Senior Nazi officials, including Hermann Göring, acquired hundreds of pieces, according to the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE).
The potential discovery is the result of years of work by Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) investigative journalists Cyril Rosman, Paul Post and Peter Schouten, who have been pursuing the case for nearly a decade.
Your media, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not a shock to anyone else.
Heh. Exactly as this writer said.
We cannot mock them enough.
Do better, ABC News.
This writer CACKLED.
Who'da thunk?
Please, tell us what you think 'unexpected' means, ABC News.
Unlike the ABC News holiday crew, Encyclopedia Brown was smart.
It is not.