Nuremberg museum returns Nazi-looted art to Jewish art dealer heirs

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2025-12-19

Munich (dpa) - The descendants of German Jewish art dealers the Lion Brothers have received five artworks looted during the Nazi era back from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Germanic National Museum) in the southern German city of Nuremberg. The brothers Louis, Hans and Fritz Lion were persecuted as Jews and were forced to give up their business under the pressure of the circumstances at the time, a statement from the museum said on Friday. T......

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