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Article: How Goering's silver chalice lay hidden in a Sunderland attic for more than 50 years; Nazi treasure is key to a 21st century dognapping.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- June 22, 2001
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Byline: JONATHAN IRWIN
WHEN British troops stormed Hermann Goering's country home in the dying days of World War II, they stumbled across art and other treasures worth millions.
Most of it had been looted from other countries by the Nazis, but one item had not.
It was a gleaming silver chalice, about a foot high and bearing a series of inscriptions, the last reading 'In memory of the great time 7.3.36', followed by Goering's name.
It was thought Goering - Germany's air chief, founder of the Gestapo and father of the Nazi death camps - had had it made to mark the German invasion of the Rhineland in 1936.
For one young British ...