Bavarian Museums sold according to a newspaper report until the 90s Nazi-looted art in favor of the public purse. This was reported by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, citing research by the London Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE).
Among the sold artworks also works have found that Jewish collectors were robbed or extorted during the Nazi era.
Thus were the confiscated art after the war by the US army and handed over to the German authorities in trust. But instead the images back to their former Jewish owners, the Bavarian State Painting Collections had sold the pictures partially to the families of former Nazi leaders, the newspaper reported.
daughter of Hitler’s personal photographer selling looted art further
to have 1963 Henriette Hoffmann, daughter of Hitler’s personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann and divorced wife of Vienna Reich governor Baldur von Schirach, an image acquired, which belonged to a Jewish family in Vienna. Later they sold this continue profitably. Today the picture is hanging, according to the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” in Dombauverein in Xanten, which has the image still not restituted
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