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During the Second World War Hitler moved some of his extensive art collection, rumoured to have contained more than 5,000 pieces, out of Germany to avoid damage from Allied bomb attacks.

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Last week, 16 pieces resurfaced in a Czech convent and now they are being seen for the first time since Hitler bought them in the mid 1940s. Author Jiri Kuchar is putting 7 of them on display. According to the Daily Telegraph, he says the works are now worth about 50 million koruna ($2.7 million), despite the fact that some art experts have said the pieces are more “interesting” than valuable.



Since the works were mostly from 1942 and ’43, they depict the ongoing war, and sometimes show a surprisingly frank portrayal of what was happening in places Germany was not necessarily winning, such as Stalingrad.

The Daily Telegraph has more from the show:

Kuchar said Hitler bought the 16 paintings – by German artists such as Franz Eichhorst, Paul Herrmann, Sepp Hilz, Friedrich W. Kalb, Oscar Oestreicher, Edmund Steppes and Armin Reumann – in 1942 and 1943 at the Great German art exhibitions that were held annually in Munich from 1937 to 1944.

Below, a look inside the show:



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