Germany posts images of looted paintings online
After a week of uproar over the revelation that German customs police had more than a year-and-a-half ago seized about 1,400 treasured works stashed for decades in a Munich apartment, the government took a few steps toward transparency.
Public prosecutors in the southern city of Augsburg had been in charge of the investigation against Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a powerful Nazi-era art dealer and collector who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s.
