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Calls for Artifact Repatriation Are Exposing the Political History of Urban Monuments
The mass destruction caused by 20th-century wars created new forms of artifact preservation and exhibition, backed by Western international groups. But calls to repatriate artifacts are calling into question norms of commemoration and public display.