en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler
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The Courtyard... and a few other of his paintings are kept in the basement of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., never shown to the public due to their controversial nature.
This is inaccurate: Army-held Hitler watercolors were publicly loaned for exhibition, and Army documentation later placed them at Fort Belvoir, Virginia rather than in Washington, D.C.
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The sentence makes two factual claims that are contradicted by published records.
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They were not "never shown to the public." A 1981 Washington Post report on the Army's holdings states that the four Hitler watercolors at the U.S. Army Center of Military History were "occasionally loaned" and had been loaned "most recently to a University of Maryland exhibition in Towson." That means they had in fact been publicly exhibited.
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The Washington, D.C. location is outdated/incorrect as stated in the present tense. In an official 2012 Army/DVIDS caption, the Army identified the four Hitler watercolors as being shown at the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Museum Support Center Facility at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
So the article's present-tense statement that these works "are kept ... in Washington, D.C., never shown to the public" is not accurate.
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- U.S. Considers Giving Nazi Art Back to Germany
The four watercolors by Hitler are kept in the vault of the U.S. Army Center of Military History here and are occasionally loaned, most recently to a University of Maryland exhibition in Towson.
- DVIDS - Images - Preserving and protecting Army history [Image 5 of 7]
Art Curator Sarah Forgey shows Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal four watercolors by Adolf Hitler at the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Museum Support Center Facility, May 30, 2012, at Fort Belvoir, Va.