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United Nations (United States) (AFP) – US authorities announced Friday that two drawings worth $2.5 million stolen by the Nazi regime and eventually displayed in American museums will be returned to relatives of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. It follows the return last year of seven works of art stolen from Grunbaum in 1938 and sold by the Nazis to fund their war machine. “Girl with Black Hair” had been held by the Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College and is valued at approximately $1.5 million, while “Portrait of a Man” was in the Carnegie Muse…