How a quiet Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina


Paul Post, a retired Dutch systems specialist, looks at the war-time diaries of his father, who described working in the Netherlands' diamond bureau during the Nazi occupation, in Driehuis, Netherlands October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) -Dutch systems specialist Paul Post had glimpsed the notebooks that contained his father’s Nazi-eradiaries before, but when he rediscovered them in an attic 15 years ago, the recent retiree finally had time to closely examine them.

Post, 74, had no idea that they would ultimately lead to Argentina, where in September the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi official was charged with concealing an 18th-century painting looted during the Holocaust.

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