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Merkel Hints at Putting Gurlitt Lists Online, Calls for Special Tribunal Are Made

Posted in Gurlitt Collection, Restitution, World War II

Catherine Hickley reports from Berlin that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking into ways to put lists and/or photographs online concerning the Cornelius Gurlitt seizure of roughly 1,400 paintings with connections to Nazi looting.  This followed heavy complaints in the first days of the revelation, that the government had failed to identify what… Continue Reading