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the liberated areas concerned, and arrangements are being made for each claimant nation to send representatives whose task will be to take possession and assume responsibility for the physical return of the treasures in question.

The Netherlands, Belgium and France have already sent representatives to Munich. The latter nation has thus far assembled a 21-car train full of art for return to Paris. In time, it is anticipated that the Germans themselves, operating under Military Government supervision, will take over from the American authorities the task of running the collecting points. Meanwhile, art continues to roll into the four centers, which will ultimately return to brighten the halls from which they came -- such as are still standing.

So voracious were the nazis in their efforts to a mass treasure that there are to be found collections taken even from the satellites -- from Hungary, Rumania, and Italy, from which, for example, the Hermann Göring Division took the treasures of Monte Cassino. Art in the salt mines, madly collected from all of Europe, seems like the pathetic symbol of a sterile dictatorship's effort to enrich the nation. Its recovery and restitution have become one of the weirdest aftermaths of the war.

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