He Faked a Vermeer to Escape Execution #burdenofproof

Allied officers found a Vermeer in Hermann Göring's stolen art hoard — and the trail led to a quiet Dutch painter facing a firing squad for collaboration. To save his life, Han van Meegeren had to prove he was a criminal: the Vermeer was fake, and he had painted it himself in an oven. The full court record — the forgeries that fooled Europe's greatest experts, the painting he made under guard to prove his guilt, the one-year sentence, and how a nation turned a fraudster into a folk hero for cheating a Nazi. Chapters: 0:00 The Confession 0:12 The Reject 0:30 Göring'S Vermeer 1:36 The Test 1:48 The Hero #truecrime #courtroom #arthistory #forgery #vermeer ▶ Full-length stories:    • True Legal Stories — Full Episodes   🔔 Subscribe (1 tap):    / @realburdenofproof   Music: "Long note One" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/