Art Stolen by the Nazis Now Cataloged Online

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It was the biggest art heist in history: during World War II, representatives of Germany's Third Reich extorted, plundered and stole thousands of works worth millions of dollars from collectors in occupied territories. Works by Monet, van Gogh, Chagall and Picasso were spirited out of Nazi-occupied France and Belgium, ostensibly for display in an institution devoted to anti-Jewish studies in Frankfurt. By the end of the war, much of the artwork was lost — some of it hidden or destroyed and some taken as trophies by the Soviet army. Thousands of pieces, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, dropped off the cultural map — until now.

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