COL Ted Mc 346903 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>From Mail.com News [ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/3232008-art-german-trove-identified-looted.html#.1272-stage-hero1-10">http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/3232008-art-german-trove-identified-looted.html#.1272-stage-hero1-10</a> ]<br /><br />More art in German trove identified as looted<br /><br />BERLIN (AP) — The Jewish Claims Conference said Friday it has already identified a painting stolen by the Nazis among a newly published inventory of hundreds of works that belonged to late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, and pushed for more time to investigate others.<br /><br />Executive vice president Greg Schneider said in an email to The Associated Press that a Pissaro among about 250 artworks found in Gurlitt's Salzburg property matched one on a looted-art list. Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Bern, which inherited the collection, posted lists of the Salzburg works and some of the 1,280 others found in Gurlitt's Munich apartment online Thursday.<br /><br />While some of the Munich works were already known, it was the first look for many at the art Gurlitt kept in the house he owned in Austria. It includes works by Breughel, Monet, Renoir and Picasso. Gurlitt inherited much of the art from his father, who in the 1930s helped the Nazis sell art they considered "degenerate" to buyers outside of Germany for cash. Some of the works — including Impressionist and modern masterpieces — had been seized by the Nazis from museums, while others were stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell. 2014-11-29T12:59:11-05:00 COL Ted Mc 346903

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>From Mail.com News [ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/3232008-art-german-trove-identified-looted.html#.1272-stage-hero1-10">http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/3232008-art-german-trove-identified-looted.html#.1272-stage-hero1-10</a> ]<br /><br />More art in German trove identified as looted<br /><br />BERLIN (AP) — The Jewish Claims Conference said Friday it has already identified a painting stolen by the Nazis among a newly published inventory of hundreds of works that belonged to late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, and pushed for more time to investigate others.<br /><br />Executive vice president Greg Schneider said in an email to The Associated Press that a Pissaro among about 250 artworks found in Gurlitt's Salzburg property matched one on a looted-art list. Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Bern, which inherited the collection, posted lists of the Salzburg works and some of the 1,280 others found in Gurlitt's Munich apartment online Thursday.<br /><br />While some of the Munich works were already known, it was the first look for many at the art Gurlitt kept in the house he owned in Austria. It includes works by Breughel, Monet, Renoir and Picasso. Gurlitt inherited much of the art from his father, who in the 1930s helped the Nazis sell art they considered "degenerate" to buyers outside of Germany for cash. Some of the works — including Impressionist and modern masterpieces — had been seized by the Nazis from museums, while others were stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell.

2014-11-29T12:59:11-05:00 2014-11-29T12:59:11-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 346914

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sir,<br /><br />I really love to read these type of articles. I have been stationed in Germany three separate times and visited some of the locations which the Army found the looted art work thanks for posting this.<br /><br />V/r<br />1SG Haro

2014-11-29T13:06:21-05:00 2014-11-29T13:06:21-05:00 TSgt Joshua Copeland 346915

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>70+ years later and the ripples of WWII are still all around us.

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