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''Price v. United States'' (1995) was a lawsuit concerning the ownership of certain artwork seized by the United States in Germany in the aftermath of World War II. It was decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which overturned an initial judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The decision was based on the definition of the tort of conversion and the applicability of the principle of sovereign immunity. Among the artwork which formed the subject matter of the lawsuit were many photographs by German photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. ==Background== The Court of Appeals described Price as "a Texas businessman", and noted that Price had described himself on the cover of a self-published book as the "owner of one of the largest collections of Hitler art and an internationally acknowledged expert on the subject". The property in dispute was a number of works of art which had been owned by Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), a German photographer best known for his many published photographs of Adolf Hitler. The Court of Appeals considered the property in three distinct categories: *four watercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler that had been purchased by (and/or given to) Hoffmann; *a photographic archive compiled by Hoffmann and his son, including many iconic images of Nazi Germany, that had been ceded to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) after its seizure by U.S. forces in occupied Germany; *a much smaller photographic archive, known as the "Carlisle archive", that had been ceded to the U.S. Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by Time-Life, Inc. Price had purchased this property from Hoffmann's heirs in Germany in the early 1980s, and then demanded the United States government to turn it over to him. When the U.S. government refused, he filed the lawsuit on August 9, 1983. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Price v. United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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