A Holocaust survivor is seeking the restitution of his father’s Nazi-looted poster collection. The Associated Press reported that Peter Sachs of Florida was a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized the collection and his family fled to the United States. Sachs returned to Germany for the first time Tuesday in an attempt to retrieve the thousands of first-run prints, which could be worth up to $50 million.
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