To understand the true Maria Altmann Story it is important to see "Stealing Klimt" (www.stealingklimt.com) which contains some amazing facts that do not make it into the excellent and moving feature film "Woman in Gold" that was inspired by "Stealing Klimt". For example, Maria's husband Fritz was imprisoned in Dachau until his brother handed over the family cashmere factory to Austrian Nazis, and Maria's brother was saved by a step-nephew of Adolf Hitler who Maria's brother had in turn saved during a ski-ing avalanche many years previously - and so many other extraordinary facts set out in "Stealing Klimt" (www.stealingklimt.com) ...
To understand the true Maria Altmann Story it is important to see "Stealing Klimt" (www.stealingklimt.com) which contains some amazing facts that do not make it into the excellent and moving feature film "Woman in Gold" that was inspired by "Stealing Klimt". For example, Maria's husband Fritz was imprisoned in Dachau until his brother handed over the family cashmere factory to Austrian Nazis, and Maria's brother was saved by a step-nephew of Adolf Hitler who Maria's brother had in turn saved during a ski-ing avalanche many years previously - and so many other extraordinary facts set out in "Stealing Klimt" (www.stealingklimt.com) ...