Thanks Uncle Chip.
Experts have hailed the discovery of the 1,500 pictures, thought to have been lost or bombed, as a sensational find... up to 300 of the Gurlitt collection appeared in a Nazi exhibition called Degenerate ArtThe whisper about the Berlin Exhibition was that the good stuff was listed as destroyed, along with the frankly garbage that was indeed incinerated; but the good stuff was squirrelled away into private collections of loot by various Nazi higher-ups who never got the opportunity to recover their loot and flee (killed, hanged, beaten by new finders); the rest of that rumor is that caches have been discovered here and there (particularly in the French occupation zone after the war) and when reported, were smuggled out and sold by corrupt occupation officials and/or the locals, vanishing into secretive private collections.
