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Germany returns Nazi loot to Poland

Germany has returned an 18th century painting that was looted from Poland's National Museum when the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. Berlin hopes the move will revive talks over some 300,000 documents, including manuscripts by Mozart and Beethoven, that it wants to recover from Poland, the BBC reports.

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