12 Facts About Pieter Menten

Pieter Nicolaas Menten was a Dutch war criminal, businessman, and art collector.

Pieter Menten lived lavishly in the Netherlands for over 25 years, often storing and selling stolen artwork, before the new evidence was used to re-try him, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Pieter Menten was released in 1985 due to old age and good behavior, and he died in 1987.

Pieter Menten soon developed an extensive export trade in Dutch products to Poland.

Pieter Menten moved to East Galicia in 1923, where he became a wealthy landowner and businessman.

Pieter Menten travelled back to the Netherlands in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland.

Pieter Menten was in Cracow in 1940 where he worked as a Treuhander of a number of Jewish art dealerships.

Pieter Menten was involved in the massacre of Polish professors in Lviv and robbery of their property.

The controversial trial concluded in 1949, with the prosecution unable to prove most allegations, and Pieter Menten was sentenced to an eight-month term for having worked in uniform as a Nazi interpreter.

Pieter Menten would go on to become a successful art collector and businessman.

In 1980, Pieter Menten was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was fined 100,000 guilders for war crimes, including being accessory to crimes against humanity for his role in the murder of 20 Jewish villagers in Poland in 1941.

Pieter Menten died at a senior citizen's home in Loosdrecht, Netherlands at the age of 88.