Nazi looted art still being kept hidden by Germans

Soeren Kern writes,

The Nazis confiscated about 16,000 pieces of art during World War II, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. An estimated 10,000 pieces are still missing and many families around the world are still searching, but maybe not for much longer.

1600 works of art were found a couple of years ago in the possession of an 80-year-old German whose father was in charge of confiscating art for the Nazis. The Germans of 2013 have not yet published a list of the recovered masterpieces, which are said to be worth over $1 billion.

Art experts expect much more Nazi-confiscated art to surface over the coming years. "This is not the end of it," according to Robert Edsel, author of the book The Monuments Men, an account of the taskforce assigned to rescue European cultural artifacts during World War II. (Edsel's book has been made into a film by George Clooney, to be released in February 2014.)