When Should a Museum Return Looted Items? It’s Complicated

When Should a Museum Return Looted Items? It’s Complicated

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The show “Loot: 10 Stories” at the Mauritshuis features a 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait that was stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish family and stored in a salt mine during World War II. A Dutch exhibition brings together items taken in colonial times, by Napoleon’s army and by the Nazis to argue…

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