Spanish museum returns two paintings looted by Nazis to Poland

Two people take down the diptych of Ecce Homo (Gustavo de la Paz/Europa Press/AP)

A museum in north-west Spain has returned two 15th-century paintings to Polish officials after it was determined they were looted by Nazi German forces during the Second World War.

The paintings, Mater Dolorosa (Mother of Sorrows) and Ecce Homo, were handed over to a delegation from Poland’s culture ministry on Wednesday.