No confiscated works were lost.
Any suggestion that Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, legally inherited the confiscated works is absurd.
They issued receipts in triplicate for confiscated works: one for the owner, one for the committee and one for the ministry.
In 1939 many of the confiscated works were auctioned in Lucerne, Switzerland, or sold abroad to finance the Nazi Party; the rest are believed to have been burned in Berlin.
We all want our icons in the desert, but let's face it, your construction workers will probably do a better job if they're not living in squalor, 10 men to a room, trapped in labour camps with their passports confiscated, working for a year just to pay back their recruitment fees.
With one piece -- a bright and bloody painting of a lion hunt -- hanging behind him, Mr. Dougherty conceded that the confiscated works might fall into the category of kitsch but insisted that they would probably have found buyers seeking remnants of the Hussein government.
The year after the Munich show, a Nazi commission employed four art dealers, including Hildebrand Gurlitt of Hamburg, to raise money by selling confiscated works of art that had been branded degenerate.
In 1998, Germany signed on to an international agreement that called for more openness and transparency in order to facilitate the return of confiscated works to their rightful owners.
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On Sunday, news magazine Focus revealed that German police two years ago confiscated 1,500 works worth up to €1bn (£860m) from the apartment.
