Submitted by Paul Daley on
Spectre of potential Nazi links with Wollongong gallery’s bequest raises questions about whether we can ever accept capacity of people to be brutal and do good
Steel city Wollongong, and its art gallery boasting one of regional Australia’s most prized collections, is wedged in the middle of an unenviable moral quandary over the apparent Nazi past of its prime benefactor.
Can the beautiful art works Bronius “Bob’’ Sredersas gave the city be distinguished from his involvement in possible Holocaust crimes, should it be determined that he worked (as archival documents strongly suggest) for the intelligence service of the Waffen SS, known as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), during the second world war?
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