(24 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Pan across exterior of German Historic museum, zoom to sign on wall
2. Various of Peter Sachs, son of former poster collector Hans Sachs, arriving at German Historic museum and being welcomed by Dieter Vorsteher, head of collection at museum
3. Foyer of German Historic museum
4. Medium shot of Sachs visiting exhibition
5. Sachs looking at a poster formerly owned by his father
6. Medium shot of poster
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Sachs, son of former poster collector Hans Sachs:
"Except for those exhibits, it's just been lying in the basement and kept from the world. And I know this is not what he would of wanted and I would like it to be liberated and shared with the world, as he wanted."
8. Various of Sachs looking at one of his father's posters with his lawyer
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Sachs, son of former poster collector Hans Sachs:
"I think it's a moral issue, there is no negotiating on that."
10. Various of posters formerly owned by Hans Sachs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Osen, lawyer of Peter Sachs:
"This is a situation where the museum never purchased the collection. It never acquired it. There was never any question as to whether it was legally obtained. It was seized by the Third Reich. It was recovered by some instrument of the East German state, placed in a basement of a museum and then ultimately inherited indirectly by the DHM (German Historic museum)."
12. Various of posters formerly owned by Hans Sachs
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Dieter Vorsteher, head of collection department at the German Historic Museum:
"We try to act in the interest of the museum. It is not my collection but the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany and Germany will decide about whether we should return the collection or not. It would be a loss not only for us but also for the history of poster art."
14. Exhibition
15. Various of Peter Sachs looking at poster and leaving exhibition
STORYLINE
Peter Sachs was only a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized his father's precious collection of rare posters and the Jewish family fled for the United States under pressure from the Gestapo.
Sachs returned to Germany for the first time on Tuesday in a bid to recover the poster collection for his family which contains thousands of first-run prints that could be worth as much as 50 million (m) US dollars.
Walking through the halls of the German Historical Museum in Berlin, which holds the remainder of the collection, he gazed contemplatively at the colourful artwork; his first glimpse of the placards that had been so precious to his father, Hans Sachs.
He said that his father would not have wanted the collection to be kept from the world.
"I know this is not what he would of wanted and I would like it to be liberated and shared with the world as he wanted," added Sachs.
Sachs, 69-year-old, will testify before a German government commission on Thursday, which seeks to determine whether the collection should be returned to him or remain in the museum, which inherited it from its East German counterpart after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
His argument is that though his father received some compensation for the loss of the collection, it came from West Germany when it was believed that the posters had been destroyed during the war.
Now that it turns out a portion of the collection, some 4,300 posters, survives, he said they should be returned to the Sachs family.
Sachs' New Jersey attorney Gary Osen said somewhere between 10 million (m) and 50 million (m) US dollars would be a good estimate for the collection.
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