Kenneth Baker weighs in on art repatriation issues: “The furor over Nazi looting has touched off a transnational frenzy of new and renewed demands for repatriation of artworks stolen, liquidated or otherwise lost during wartime or colonial occupation. These range from Greece’s perennial demands for Britain’s return of the Parthenon ‘Elgin marbles’ to Korean demands for the return of artifacts stolen by Japan during the Second World War and earlier. Reflecting on the weight of such claims, it is worth remembering that Hitler’s cultural officers frequently looted art treasures on the pretext of repatriating them in the aftermath of the wars of centuries past.”