Eight decades after a Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter was looted by Nazis the World War I-era fighter biplane is set to return to the Netherlands the National Military Museum (NMM) located there announced The aircraft, which is currently in the possession of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, will be on display at the Dutch military museum located in Soesterberg Its journey back to the Netherlands has been long in the making The aircraft was taken during World War II to become part of a Nazi-Luftwaffe museum planned by Hermann Göring, who orchestrated a large-scale looting campaign of Jewish assets and those of countries occupied by German forces. He was the second most powerful official in Nazi Germany according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “In 1945, American MFAA (Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives) servicemen, better known as the ‘Monuments Men,’ in search of stolen artistic treasures in amongst other things hit on a Fokker D.VII in a farm barn in Vilsbiburg,” NMM said in a statement the Americans then gave the aircraft to the Deutsches Museum The aircraft proved to be but a drop in the bucket of looted assets. According to the Smithsonian Institution, the Monuments Men would go on to discover Göring’s hidden collection of more than 1,000 pieces of art stolen from museums and homes—worth about $200 million and scattered in secret locations throughout Germany and the Bavarian Alps little to nothing was known about the aircraft’s provenance and true identity,” NMM said That all changed in the 1980s when the German museum began work to restore the biplane revealing Dutch nationality markings and roundels “More recent and extensive German research showed beyond doubt that the aircraft is Dutch although its identity cannot be ascertained with certainty,” NMM said “Which was reason enough for the German museum staff to look into matters more closely and get in touch with their colleagues in the Netherlands.” Museum officials in both countries continue to investigate the aircraft’s story when the Fokker D.VII carrying registration number D-28 was demonstrably still in the Netherlands when the D.VII was uncovered in a barn in the Bavarian town of Vilsbiburg remains one big black hole,” NMM said mean the aircraft’s return to the Netherlands is considered short term—for five years—”because there is no legal basis for restitution at the present time,” NMM said You can use our filter to find relevant topics Alternatively our search function or the overview of articles can help you out According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), electricity from solar has “never been cheaper” to produce. 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Learn more 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In September 2025 the National Military Museum is set to showcase an original Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft designed during the First World War which was in service with our Fleet Air Arm before the Second World War The aircraft comes to us from the Deutsches Museum in Munich the plane was found to carry original Dutch identification markings the aircraft was removed from the Netherlands during the Second World War to become part of a Nazi-Luftwaffe museum planned by Hermann Göring in search of stolen artistic treasures in amongst other things hit on a Fokker D.VII in a farm barn in Vilsbiburg They gave the aircraft in custody to the Deutsches Museum based in Munich little to nothing was known about the aircraft's provenance and true identity Restoration work to the plane carried out in Germany in 1980 revealed the plane's Dutch nationality markings (including its roundels) and a registration number More recent and extensive German research showed beyond doubt that the aircraft is Dutch although its identity cannot be ascertained with certainty Which was reason enough for the German museum staff to look into matters more closely and get in touch with their colleagues in the Netherlands In spite of the fact that the investigation is still ongoing the Deutsches Museum - in part based on the investigations carried out by their Dutch colleagues - has announced its intention to loan the Fokker D.VII to the Netherlands The past two years saw both parties work closely side by side as befits good professional colleagues although important factual elements are not known yet when the Fokker D.VII carrying registration number D-28 was demonstrably still in the Netherlands Fokker D.VII on its way to the Netherlands Given the many questions that remain unanswered there is no legal basis for restitution at the present time This is why the plane is provisionally going on display at the National Military Museum for the next five years the investigation is set to continue in both countries The NMM in Soesterberg is one of the three Royal Defence Museums in the Netherlands we are keen to raise awareness amongst the public at large of the fact that freedom is not to be taken for granted We want to do justice to the Armed Forces' contribution to our national history and their role in protecting our peace and freedom go to NMM.nl or follow us on Facebook and Instagram Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2638945/Fokker_DVII.jpg Do not sell or share my personal information: Home E-Paper Traffic Cameras Classifieds Thompson’s Vilsbiburg fails to clinch playoff spotby nigel.si­mon@guardian.co.tt Chan­non Thomp­son reg­is­tered a game-high 17 points but it was not enough as her Red Ravens Vils­biburg saw their four-match win­ning streak in the Ger­many Women’s Bun­desli­ga Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onship come to an end in a straight sets loss to de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Al­lianz MTV Stuttgart on Sat­ur­day Out­side Hit­ter Thomp­son scored 17 points for the un­der­strength Vils­biburg while Ka­t­ri­na Kokko­nen added 12 and ‘birth­day girl’ Nicole Av­ery Hep­pell 28-30 loss to Stuttgart who go 11 points each from Eline Tim­mer­man Stuttgart lead­ing scor­ers were well sup­port­ed by Marie Scholzel who added nine six points apiece as they im­prove to 18-1 and 53 points at the top of the 11-club stand­ings while Schw­er­iner (16-3) is six points be­hind with 47 fol­lowed by SC Pots­dam (15-4) with 44 and fifth-placed Wies­baden which has an 8-11 and 27 points to be cer­tain of a top eight play­off spot Thomp­son and her Vils­biburg team­mates slipped two places on the ta­ble to sev­enth with a 9-10 record and 25 points one adrift of USC Mun­ster which has the same 9-10 record while VFB Suhl (8-11) both with 23 points as all four clubs will go in­to the fi­nal reg­u­lar-sea­son match-day still in the hunt for the re­main­ing three play­off spots For Vils­biburg it will be a straight­for­ward case of a win and you are in as they will host Suhl at home af­ter the lat­ter won its home match against Aachen 3-0 to set up the mouth­wa­ter­ing con­test at the Ball­sporthalle against the Thuringians on April 1 and USC Mun­ster comes up against Pots­dam The two clubs at the bot­tom of the ta­ble are Schwarz-Weib Er­furt (3-17) with 15 points and cel­lar-placed VC Neuwied (1-18) with three points Author Ian Isidore Smart signs a copy of his book at the launch entertainment manager to some of Jamaica’s most famous music artistes with his proud parents Christopher “Chris” Noel John and Anna-Maria Martinez-John Guardian Media is the premier provider of multimedia solutions and authoritative insight on news TBC Radio Network and The Big Board Company Send us an e-mail here or call us at +1-(868)-225-4465 / +1-(868)-235-5668 A Fokker D.VII fighter plane on show at the Deutsches Museum may not be what it first appears to be The aircraft was deemed the pride of Germany's air arm during the First World War but it was also flown by other nations - including the Netherlands Now a joint team of German-Dutch researchers believe the aircraft on display in Germany could possibly have been looted by the Nazis US soldiers found the D.VII in an old hangar in the German town of Vilsbiburg They formally donated it to Germany's national museum the plane was displayed alongside a sign boasting that it was the best German fighter plane by the end of WW1 The aircraft had originally been painted in Dutch roundels but had been overpainted to represent a German D.VII from WWI "We know that our Fokker D.VII originally belonged to the Dutch navy," said Andreas Andreas Hempfer who is the curator for historical aircraft at the Deutsches Museum "What we don’t know is if the plane was sent to Germany as a gift or if it was looted and so we still don't know for sure whose plane it really is." The challenge for researchers is that some of the old digits making up the aircraft's serial number - which could tell them more about this individual aircraft - are now impossible to distinguish One theory is this could have been a specific aircraft planned to be sent to a Dutch museum in 1937 then we could be dealing with a possible restitution," said Deutsche Museum researcher Bernhard Wörrle "It is also questionable whether this case can ever fully be resolved "But we don’t want to just do nothing and keep the D.VII in the museum with doubts about its origin." With so much in doubt and key evidence missing German and Dutch researchers have reached a compromise The mystery Fokker D.VII is set to go to the Netherlands military museum in the Dutch town of Soesterberg on loan for five years from September the detective work will continue with the hope of one day putting together the pieces of the puzzle about what exactly happened to the aircraft - and how it came to be sitting in a hangar in Germany Please select at least one newsletter to subscribe to: This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page