The Dutch Seem To Be Dragging Their Feet In Getting Nazi-Looted Art Back To Survivors And Their Families

The Allies returned about 9,000 works – less than half of those looted by the Nazis – to the Netherlands, but the Netherlands didn’t make much progress in getting them back to the original owners – and now the panel that makes decisions is supposed to consider “‘the significance of the work to public art collections’ against the emotional attachment of the claimant.” That’s not going particularly well for the claimants.