MUNICH Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.
The Bavarian National Museum s curator, Matthias Weniger, is returning stolen silver objects taken from Jewish families during the 1930s. The museum has 111 of these objects, which were ordered to be pawned by Jewish families in Germany, and thousands more were melted into 135 tonnes of silver for Nazi war efforts.
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Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, shows one of the 111 registered silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany,