Zurich prosecutors have found several paintings believed to have been looted by the Nazis during World War II. German newspapers first reported that a cache of works by such painters as Monet and Renoir had been found in a safe rented by the late Bruno Lohse, an art historian who assessed paintings stolen from Jews for the Nazis. Prosecutors entered the safe in the German bank Zurcher Kantonalban after the daughter of an heir to the Jewish publisher Gottfried Bermann Fischer reported that two men offered to tell her — for a fee — the whereabouts of a Pissarro painting stolen from her family as they fled Austria. The complaint spurred the investigation that led to the finding. Lohse was acquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg and continued working as an art dealer.
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