Text size this story is by  SARASOTA, Florida - Collecting
poster art was a passion for Hans Sachs, a well-to-do German
dentist who adorned his Berlin home with the bright-hued work as
World War II began to simmer around him.  Sachs meticulously
cataloged his collection of 12,500 posters and was credited with
elevating commercial graphics to an internationally recognized
art form during the first decades of the last century.  Then
came Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass," and - like many
German Jews - Sachs lost nearly everything to rampaging mobs of
Nazis. It was Nov. 9, 1938. The Gestapo arrested him and hauled
away his collection, which he never saw again.  Today, several
thousand of his posters - likely worth millions - are stored in
a German history museum, and Sachs' son wants them back. The
museum is refusing to hand them over, and the younger Sachs has
hired a lawyer specializing in Holocaust restitution cases.
"His passion was to make this available to the world, to expose
the world to the ar