Customs Enforcement Officials: Air Raid Shelter

German Museum Dept: The paintings, worth a total of about $200,000, were among 50 taken in 1945 from the municipal museum of the German town of Pirmasens, near the French border, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said, according to Calgary Herald. The origin of the paintings was discovered by a U.S. woman who inherited some of the paintings from her great uncle, a U.S. soldier who had been stationed near Pirmasens and eleven oil paintings taken by U.S. soldiers from an air raid shelter in Germany during the Second World War have been returned to a German museum, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Several of the returned paintings were by Heinrich Buerkel, a Pirmasens-born 19th century painter. As reported in the news.
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