£50,000 WORTH OF LOOTED PICTURES DISCOVERED
BERLIN, May 6. _United States forces have discovered 15 paintings, including works by Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, and Corot, believed to have been looted from occupied France by the Nazis, at a farmhouse about 100 miles from Munich. Colonel Wilhelm Brendel, who headed a Wehrmacht art collecting group and was believed to have been responsible tor the theft, died in an American zone prisoner-of-war camp in 1945 without disclosing the location of the cache, which is estimated to be worth more than £50,000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22941, 9 May 1949, Page 5
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