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ATHENS, GREECE—Kathimerini reports that more than 10,000 Neolithic artifacts looted from Greece during World War II have been returned by Germany’s Pfahlbaumuseum. Archaeologists conducted the excavations in the Thessaly region in 1941, under the direction of Hitler’s chief ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg. They uncovered pottery, stone tools, obsidian and flit blades, and bones, in an effort to prove Nazi ideology. The repatriation ceremony was attended by Greek and German officials, including Greek culture minister Constantinos Tasoulas, German ambassador to Athens Wolfgang Dold, and Pfahlbaumuseum director Gunter Schoebel.
