Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Recovering Looted Art
Seventy years ago, as the Nazis rolled through Europe, they plundered art from museums, galleries and private collections. Today, the owners of about 100,000 stolen pieces of art are still trying to get them back, and one family has gotten a small step closer.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readSeventy years ago, as the Nazis rolled through Europe, they plundered art from museums, galleries and private collections. Today, the owners of about 100,000 stolen pieces of art are still trying to get them back, and one family has gotten a small step closer. Yesterday, they scored a legal victory against Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum, and the case could have a ripple effect on similar cases throughout the country.
