Thousands of works looted by the Nazis from Jewish families and recovered by the Monuments Men after the Second World War were later sold by Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections instead of being returned to their original owners, research by the Commission for Looted Art in Europe shows. The commission made the discovery while investigating a painting by Jan van der Heyden, which was looted by the Nazis from the Jewish Kraus family. When the Monuments Men passed responsibility for restitution to the Bavarian state, it was sold to Henriette von Schirach, the daughter of Hitler’s photographer Heinrich Hoffman, instead. The museum body says it is committed to finding “fair and just solutions” with the heirs of Jewish families.