Over 10,600 artifacts looted in WWII returned to Greece

"The return of the artifacts, most of which were excavated in the Thessaly region in 1941 during an operation organized by Hitler's chief ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, arose from a doctoral thesis by Angelica Douzougli, an honorary ephor of antiquities. She located the artifacts in the 1970s over the course of research conducted in Germany and has since spearheaded the campaign for their repatriation.

The objects include pot shards, stone tools, obsidian and flint blades and bone material that were dug up in an effort by the Nazis to claim that northern people, ancestors of the Greeks, had an established presence in Europe from prehistoric times."

Ekathimerini, Jul 8, 2014, http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_08/07/2014_541191