Web site helps hunt for stolen Nazi art in US museums

A REPORT in today's Globe & Mail said a web site sponsored by the American Association of Museums will allow US repositories to compare their collections between art looted by the Nazis between 1932 and 1946.

The newspaper said that prestigious museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chicago Institute of Art are already indexing the objects they own and using the searchable registry that opens today at this address.

European museums have a similar index to see if objects stolen by Nazi criminals have somehow or other ended up in their vast repositories of stuff.

Not that curators are stupid or anything. Apparently the Nazi thieves forced dealers to sell lots of stuff "confiscated" from their enemies, and they were legion. µ

*FUSSNOTE The word "loot" comes from the Hindi lotra, meaning "spoils of war".

L'INQ
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