(CNN) The Louvre Museum in Paris has dedicated a special permanent exhibit to French-owned works of art recovered from Germany. The Nazis had seized the pieces during their occupation of France.
These 31 paintings join the more than 1,700 recovered paintings already on the walls at the world-famous museum, but their display has a deeper purpose: To hopefully reunite the works of art with the descendants of their rightful owners.
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