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Alongside the systematic destruction of Europe during the Second World War, there were systems in place that permitted the confiscation, plunder, and looting of artworks from public and private collections. Most of the stolen art was strategically taken with the...

In 1949, a man named Ante Topić Mimara successfully deceived agents working at the Munich Central Collecting Point and obtained more than 150 works of art that he had no legitimate claim to. Capitalizing on the authority and privilege that his role as agent of the...