Some 70 artworks at an Austrian museum may have been looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners, a museum official said. Citing the results of a year of research, the official at Vienna’s Joanneum Museum said the works include paintings and drawings by Rodin and Klimt. He estimated the works’ total worth at between $400,000 and $800,000.
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