Before and during World War II, Nazis confiscated thousands of pieces of art from Jewish families for a museum Hitler planned to open in Austria. The families were sent to concentration camps.
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Laurel Zuckerman, the great-grandniece of German-Jewish art collectors, is using errors in artwork provenance data to identify art that was either looted or sold under duress during the Nazi's third reich.
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Nazi plunder was the stealing of art and other items as a result of the organised looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler. In addition to gold, silver and currency, cultural items of great significance were stolen, including paintings, ceramics, books and religious treasures. Although most of these items were recovered by Allied agents of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA), imme