THE LOST MUSEUM The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art By Hector Feliciano. Basic Books. 278 pp. Illustrated. $27.50. Christine Temin writes about the visual arts for the Globe.

If an air of deja vu surrounds Hector Feliciano's "The Lost Museum," it's because the 1995 French version of the book helped train the world's attention on artworks the Nazis stole from French Jews, works that were not all returned after the war. Some later turned up on the walls of prestig...