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August 5, 2025

Hunting Fake Nazi-Looted Art in Greece

“Pissarro? Sisley?” “No, Hitler.”

In 2005, the art dealer (and later convicted felon) Ezra Chowaiki visited a man named Jimmy in the suburbs of Athens, who showed him his stunning art collection—a lost notebook of Toulouse-Lautrec, originals by Gauguin, Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse. There was one problem: on the back of nearly every painting was the stamp of the SS. (An exception was a Degas that bore the name and stamp of Hermann Göring, the Nazi regime’s art-thief-in-chief.) Chowaiki writes: 

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