24. Horst von Wachter Returned Art Looted by His Family During the War
In December of 1939, the wife of Baron Otto von Wachter, the recently appointed German governor of the Polish city of Krakow, walked into that city’s National Museum, and methodically looted it of every item that caught her fancy. In 2017, her son Horst von Wachter, who had spent his life trying to clear his father’s name, returned three of the stolen paintings that his mother had taken back home to Austria when the Germans were forced out of Poland.
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