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...Lufkin said these events raised awareness of restitution issues and forced museums to consider where works came from before buying or borrowing them...
Panelists discussed their concern about the legacy left by the Nazis, who they said committed the biggest displacement of cultural treasures, books and archives in history during World War II. According to Lufkin, the Germans expropriated art owned by the Jews and either sold or destroyed what they considered to be “degenerate...
While much of the stolen art has not been recovered, Lufkin said the issue of repatriating art seized during the war was not discussed until the 1990s...
...Cold War made a lot of talk happen that had been silenced,” Lufkin said. “Public attitudes towards museums became critical...
...Lufkin described a series of scandals in many of America’s leading museums where people questioned the source of their pieces...