Son of high Nazi art gives back

krakow - Horst von Wächter Wednesday in the Polish city of Krakow three paintings rendered who had taken during the Second World War his father Otto. He called on Germans and Austrians who also called looted art in possession to follow his example.

Otto von Wächter (1901-1949) was a lawyer born in Austria, high Nazi politician and SS general. During the occupation of Poland, he was one time governor of the district of Krakow. He worked in the formation of the ghetto and the transports of Jews.

The two pieces are an eighteenth-century antique map of Poland and a watercolor of the nineteenth century. The artworks were taken in 1939 by von Wächter. Polish politician and scientist Magdalena Ogorek managed to trace both works.

Otto von Wächter died at the age of 48 at the Vatican, where he was given shelter by an Austrian bishop.