The IRA intended to hold the paintings to ransom in exchange for the transfer of IRA members Dolours Price and Marian Price who had been convicted of car-bombings in England. All the stolen paintings were recovered in County Cork a few weeks later. (26 April 1974)
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Tuesday 8th of August 1950 (-) — SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt is executed by the firing squad. Schmitt was the only German Nazi to be executed in Belgium.