United States University returns stolen “Flagellation of Christ” to museum in Germany

BERLIN (AP).- An American university returned a 15th century painting to a Berlin museum on Monday, more than six decades after the valuable piece was stolen in the chaotic aftermath of World War. The Flagellation of Christ was one of more than a dozen paintings that disappeared from Berlin’s Jagdschloss Grunewald museum during the summer of 1945, looted by British and Russian soldiers. The painting, which originally formed a wing of an altarpiece, was later sold and ended up in the [...]