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The last two of 17 artworks from the ministry of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels were handed over to the German Historical Museum on Friday after languishing in vaults for almost 60 years, the museum said.
The paintings, including works by artists such as Lothar-Guenther Buchheim and Constantin Gerhardinger who were admired by the Nazis, were taken out of the propaganda ministry in Berlin in 1943 because of fears they would be damaged in bombing.
After the war, they were stored in the Soviet zone of Berlin, being taken in the 1950s to the Sanssouci palace in Potsdam in the former East Germany where they were put into storage.
Curators said they some appeared to have been damaged by being thrown out of windows or had been cut down to a smaller format, but they are in a good enough state to go on show.
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AFP 081922 GMT 12 06
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