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Source: AP

3-31-14

Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland

An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's `Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents that Berlin wants to recover from Poland.

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Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland