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A dispute over four Nazi-looted drawings currently in possession of the British Museum is likely to lead to a change in British

A dispute over four Nazi-looted drawings currently in possession of the British Museum is likely to lead to a change in British law which would allow art stolen during World War II to be returned to its legal heirs. The Old Masters in question, once part of a large collection belonging to Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer and a passionate art collector, were confiscated by the Gestapo on the day the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939. When descendants of Feldmann and his wife, who both perished in the Holocaust, submitted a claim for the artworks in 2002, the British Museum acknowledged their right of ownership of the drawings it had acquired in 1946. Museum trustees agreed to return the items, worth around US$ 260,000, declaring that the case represented a

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