Bowing to months of international pressure, Christie’s said it will not continue the sale of jewels from the estate of Heidi Horten, whose wealth was rooted in Nazi profiteering by her late husband.
The estate of Austrian art collector Heidi Horten, who inherited her fortune from her husband, German department store magnate Helmut Horten, is being cleared out, with its contents being put up for ...
Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten died Sunday at the age of 81, the Heidi Horton Collection said in a statement, days after she opened a private museum in Vienna featuring her nearly billion-dollar ...
The sale of over 400 pieces of jewelry once owned by late art collector Heidi Horten broke records at a series of auctions earlier this year. But amid ongoing criticism from Jewish advocacy groups and ...
The Horten HX-2 flying wing has completed initial flight tests, demonstrating promising preliminary data including a range of over 2,100 miles and an endurance exceeding 24 hours at cruise speed.
In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles banned the production of military aircraft in Germany, glider clubs sprang up ...
The first two parts of the Heidi Horten collection were sold in Geneva May 10 and 12, for a record-breaking $202.1 million hammer price, smashing the previous record for the most valuable jewelry ...
Hundreds of jewels once owned by late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten have fetched a combined 179.9 million Swiss francs ($201 million) to become the most expensive private jewelry collection ever ...
Key Points and Summary - The Horten Ho 229 was a German flying-wing jet prototype developed in the final days of World War II. National Security Journal was given a guided tour of the plane's remains ...
In 1942, German air force chief Hermann Goering sketched out the requirement for the Amerika bomber—a strategic bomber capable of making 7,200-mile round-trip across the Atlantic. Earlier in 1938, ...
What You Need to Know: The B-21 Raider, set to replace many Cold War-era bombers by the end of the decade, continues the U.S. Air Force’s tradition of flying wing aircraft, dating back to World War II ...