US EditionGermany returns stolen fragments of Bayeux Tapestry to France
Two unembroidered linen fragments stolen in 1941 during Nazi occupation were found in German archives in 2023 and returned to the Bayeux Museum in France this week.
- On Wednesday, Schleswig-Holstein returned two small unembroidered linen fragments of the Bayeux Tapestry to the Bayeux museum, Normandy.
- Karl Schlabow is believed to have taken the fragments while commissioned by the Occupying regime as part of an SS `ancestral heritage` research project, and his unpublished study remains in his personal archive.
- A 2023 inventory revealed a labelled glass plate found in Schlabow's 2023 inventory helped historians from the Schleswig-Holstein state archives identify the two unembroidered fragments, one to two centimetres long.
- Archivists handed the pieces to Bayeux officials and returned them ahead of the British Museum's planned display, with Rainer Hering saying it was "obvious these pieces taken by the Nazis 85 years earlier had to be returned to France."
- The 70m Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th-century UNESCO `Memory of the World` embroidery, faces fragility concerns with plans to exhibit at the British Museum, sparking over 77,000 petition signatures and �800m UK government insurance.
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Small pieces of fabric taken from the thousand-year-old work in 1941 were handed over to France during a solemn ceremony on Wednesday, January 14 in Bayeux. They were found by chance in 2023 in an archive in Germany.
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On Wednesday, January 14, the German region of Schleswig-Holstein returned to France two small fragments of the Bayeux tapestry that were collected in 1941 by Karl Schlabow, a Nazi scientist and museum director. The pieces were found in 2023 in the researcher's archives.
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