Austria announced that it would examine the origins of all artworks in state museums to determine whether former owners were forced to give them up to the Nazis. The decision comes a week after two paintings in the possession of the state-owned Leopold Collection were impounded in New York after two Jewish families claimed that relatives had been forced to sell the paintings to the Nazis.
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