The return of a painting to its Jewish heirs could endanger Germany’s cultural heritage, a German historian said. Christoph Stolzl, former head of the German Historical Museum, has criticized the decision by the Berlin Senate to force the city’s Brucke Museum to return Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s painting “Street Scenes” to
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