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Article: EXCAVATING WORLD WAR'S LAYER OF LIES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1997
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Byline: Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe
PARIS -- Hector Feliciano leads the way down the staircase of the Pompidou Center with all the glee of an inspector about to nab his most wanted suspect.
He rushes ahead to the modern art museum's exhibit of 39 paintings recovered from the Nazis after World War II. Then he lights briefly in front of an early cubist piece by Fernand Leger. ``Look,'' he says, pointing his finger excitedly in an ``Aha'' moment.
This was one of the ``decadent'' works of art the Nazis looted. About 2,000 such stolen pieces have spent the past half-century in museums that crown this city.
Until this year, few who saw ...