Nazi-looted painting handed back by German cathedral
A cathedral in Germany has returned a painting that was seized by the Nazis in 1941 to the heirs of its original Jewish owners. The work had entered the collection of Adolf Hitler’s photographer Heinrich Hoffmann and was found among the numerous works he kept in a castle in Bavaria at the end of the Second World War.
It has also emerged that, controversially, the picture had previously been sold back to Hoffmann’s d…