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Owner: Vincent de Moro-Giafferi — Paris, France
Collection: (MG) Moro Giafferi--Youngest member of the Paris bar, Vincent de Moro-Giafferi was one of the most colorful and relentless criminal defense lawyers in inter-war Paris. He even defied Hermann Goering in his defense of those accused of having set the Reichstag fire in March 1933. Moro-Giafferi made the short list of high-priority targets once the Wehrmacht occupied Paris in June 1940. His entire Paris apartment was emptied in November 1940.
Inventory No.: Kiste Nr. MG 8
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Medium: Decorative Arts
Title: Spiegel
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Provenance and Comments: This mirror was originally in crate MG 7 as inventoried at the Louvre. Hence it was repacked into crate MG 8 at the Jeu de Paume.
Archival Sources: Bundesarchiv, B323/271; RV 103, MAEE, Paris, France
Intake place: 27 avenue Kleber, Paris
Transfer place: Jeu de Paume
Transfer date: 1940-11-05
Transfer place: Buxheim
Repatriated to France? Yes
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