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ChuckDyke
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The kind of people you can't help to admire. He painted so-called Olde Dutch Masterpieces and sold them to the Nazis for real. One of his victims was Herman Goring he got depressed in jail when he found out about it. Han Van Meegeren was acquitted on the charge of treason. He proved in court he could paint as well as Rembrandt or Vermeer.
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The Art Forger Who Fooled Hermann Göring- Han van Meegeren
Meegeren sold a forged Vermeer painting to Nazi higher officials and proved it was a fake at court to escape a death sentence
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