Each day ARCA is made aware of between five and fifty art crimes, and those are only the ones which are reported.  Here is a sample of headlines from the past week in art crime.

Selected Art Crimes from the week ending Nov. 12, '07:

- Two photo albums showing art looted by the Nazis during World War II are being donated to the US National Archives. 'Hitler Album' of stolen art unveiled at National Archives. A decades-old tattered brown leather album with photographs of 18th century paintings offers a rare glimpse into The Third Reich's Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) unit, which created the albums, was set up by Hermann Goering in 1940 and given the task of confiscating "ownerless" Jewish art collections. ERR records from 1944 show that the organisation seized 21,903 objects of art from 203 collections in France.  Adolf Hitler's massive looting of artwork during World War II.

- Ex-museum head pleaded guilty to defrauding the Philadelphia museum he used to run was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia

- Spain’s Guarda Civil announces that they have recovered approximately 4000 works of stolen art since 1980.

- In Bologna, a collection of 28 paintings with a value of at least 7 million euros were recovered—among which was a Titian and a Claude Lorrain.  The recovery was made by the Carabinieri with the help of a private collector.  A dealer was responsible for arranging thefts primarily from private homes and galleries around Rome, and had sold the paintings to at least 7 private collectors.

- New York art dealer Jerome Eisenberg returned eight pieces of ancient art valued at about $510, 000 to Italy, one of the first private gallery owners to turn over antiquities which the government says were illegally removed from the country.

- The mastermind behind a global theft ring based in Canada admitted Wednesday to a decade’s worth of sophisticated attacks on banks, stealing a royal diamond from a museum and inadvertently funding terrorism in Iraq. Gerald Daniel Blanchard, 35, pleaded guilty to 16 charges, mostly fraud related, and a single charge of participating in a criminal organization for crimes going back to 1997.  In June 1998, he was spotted in the museum at an Austrian castle that housed the Koechert Diamond Pearl hairpin. It was once owned by Austria's Queen Elisabeth and has a great historical and sentimental value to the nation, said Leinburd. Several weeks later, Austrian authorities noticed the original hairpin was missing. Exactly when it disappeared is a mystery - it had been replaced with a cheap replica available in the museum's gift shop. The royal hairpin's location remained a mystery until nine years later. After he was arrested in January 2007 for the bank frauds, Blanchard led police to the heirloom, which was tucked inside a piece of Styrofoam hidden at a relative's home in Winnipeg.

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