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Tuesday’s Art Notes
Visitors look at Egon Schiele’s ‘Portrait of Wally’ at the Leopold Museum on August 23, 2010 in Vienna. The painting finally made its way back to Austria on Friday after years of legal wrangling...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Obama Waives No Child Left Behind Requirements for 10 States
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: President Obama granted waivers to 10 states today, excusing them from requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. The...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Senate Bill to Extend Stafford Loan Rates Stalled
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioKWAME HOLMAN: A bill to continue low interest rates on federal student loans stalled in the U.S. Senate today. Democrats wanted to cover the...
View ArticleAmericans with a Front Row Seat to the Rise of Hitler
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, the never-before-told story of a group of Americans in Berlin who had a front-row seat at the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. Margaret Warner has our book conversation....
View ArticleHow the recovery of modern art ‘defamed’ by Nazis will change the art world
JUDY WOODRUFF: To take a deeper look at some of these questions about the art and the history, we turn to Jonathan Petropoulos, professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and a specialist in...
View ArticleMasterpieces thought to be destroyed by Nazis discovered in Munich
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: the discovery and recovery of a treasure trove of looted art from World War II and the...
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Lost masterpieces from a supposed Nazi Trove of Art
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Germany continues to grapple with Nazi-era legacy
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThis report was originally broadcast on January 12, 2014. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: From the outside, it looks like a beautiful old estate, but this is no private residence....
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‘Degenerate Art’ exhibit explores Nazi assault on modern art
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioEditor’s note: The credit for 1937 footage should read Julien Bryan. SASKIA DE MELKER: Empty frames and faded imprints aren’t what you expect to see at an art show. But...
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French writer Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. He is the 11th French writer to win the prestigious prize.Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images French writer Patrick...
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Congress wants to block Nazis from getting Social Security
WASHINGTON — A bill that would block suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving Social Security benefits is heading to President Barack Obama for his signature. By voice vote late Thursday, the Senate...
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Family of Nazi minister sues Random House over diary excerpts
Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels (center) is seen in June of 1934. Goebbels’ estate is suing the publisher Random House over a book that used extensive excerpts from Goebbels’ copyrighted diaries. Credit:...
View ArticlePoet Rita Dove on what we learned from Nazi liberation, 70 years later
Video produced by Corinne Segal. Seventy years ago this spring, Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps and exposed some of the worst horrors of World War II. “Liberation,” a poetry...
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Senate bill would speed recovery of art lost to Nazi looting
Museum visitors study “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt at a special exhibition of Klimt paintings looted by the Nazis during World War II, at the Los Angeles...
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New exhibit follows the hunt for a Nazi leader
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioEDDIE ARRUZA: The number forever etched into his arm has faded slightly. But David Dragon’s memories of where he got it are still fresh. DAVID DRAGON: I was beaten up...
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