Germany wants war-looted portrait back from Wales

Understandably, the Russians left this one behind when they liberated the Reichstag in 1945, but a Tommy NCO with a sense of humour decided to rescue this beleaguered portrait of the First World War German Field Marshall and Weimar president Paul von Hindenburg, right, from the ruins and take him back to the West Country.

Not all looted art is Nazi looted art, of course, and having located this likeness of the Prussian s…

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