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Museum admits it has Nazi-looted work
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THE British Museum has acknowledged a claim that four old-master
drawings in its possession had been looted by the Nazis during the
Second World War from a private collection.
The museum has studied the claim, made in May, by the Commission
for Looted Art in Europe on behalf of the family of Dr Arthur
Feldmann of Brno, who lived in the Czechoslovakia. Trustees said they
noted that "the atrocities committed during the era 1933-45 represent
a brutal period of modern history, and [the trustees] express
sympathy with the victims of the Nazi regime".
Dr Feldmann, a lawyer, had a collection of ...
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