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Article: The first lieutenant's booty. (Joe Meador's medieval art collection)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1990
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UNTIL a couple of weeks ago, Whitewright (motto: "Everything is right in Whitewright") was an obscure town in a part of north Texas where people with names like Bubba and Sissy enjoy catfish cook-outs. Today it is the centre of an international row over the disposal of a treasure trove of medieval artworks from a German cathedral looted by an American soldier after the second world war.
The soldier in question was the late joe Meador, who entered Quedlinburg, in what is now East Germany, as a first lieutenant with the 87th Armoured Field Artillery in April 1945. His battalion was assigned the task of guarding crates of artworks from the local cathedral that had ...
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