(Times of Israel) After World War II, German museums handed over artwork looted from Jews to the families of prominent Nazis responsible for the theft, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, a British restitution group, charged on Monday. As soon as American authorities handed over the restitution task to the Bavarian administration in 1949, German authorities kept some and sold others at deflated prices, including to members of prominent Nazi families such as the widow of Hermann Goring. The Munich-based newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and the Commission also found that the Bavarian State Galleries and many other such institutions have been sitting on art that was forcibly "purchased" from Jewish collectors under the Nazi regime.
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