Austria - Thousands Line Up To View Paintings Ordered Returned

Vienna, Austria - 4,000-plus of art lovers lined up outside a Vienna museum Sunday for a final glimpse of five paintings that a court has ordered to be returned to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her family.
Austria's government said it could not afford to buy back the works, which were valued collectively at $300 million and said it would return them to Maria Altmann of California, who says the Nazis confiscated them from her Jewish family in the run-up to World War II. An arbitration court upheld her claim last month.
Altmann, 89, a retired Beverly Hills clothing boutique operator, was one of the heirs of the family that owned the paintings before the Nazis took over Austria in 1938.