Sarasota, FL - Man Fights Museum For Return Of Art Seized By Nazis

Sarasota, FL - Collecting poster art was Hans Sachs' passion. The well-to-do German dentist compiled 12,500 pieces he painstakingly cataloged and displayed throughout his home in Berlin. He even published a magazine dedicated to the art form.
Like many German Jews, Sachs lost almost everything to rampaging mobs of Nazis during what became known as Kristallnacht on Nov. 9, 1938. The Gestapo arrested him and hauled away his poster collection, which he never saw again.

Today, several thousand of the posters - likely worth millions - are stored in a German history museum, and Sachs' son wants them back.

But the museum is refusing to hand them over. Officials there say Hans Sachs was compensated by the German government for the loss of his collection more than 40 years ago. His son, they say, is entitled to nothing.

A legal battle seems to be on the horizon.

Peter Sachs, 67, hired New Jersey lawyer Gary Osen, a Holocaust restitution specialist. Osen last year won a landmark case, getting back land in downtown Berlin for a descendant of the Wertheim department store family, whose fortune was lost under the Nazis.