Posted by:
Amyjo
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Date: August 28, 2015 08:47PM
You're absolutely right on that.
What the governments tend to do is to hoard it for their own use, until or unless some descendants of the rightful heirs step up to contest the ownership.
Woman In Gold movie portrayed the court case of a Jewish woman who fought successfully to repatriate a stolen artwork that Austria kept in one of its museums as a main attraction. Austria was prepared to fight her tooth and nail, but her gravelly attorney prevailed when he was able to bring her case to US courts and successfully won on appeal.
Her one piece of art was valued at something like $135,000,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I