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- Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation - [Austria] Art looted by the Nazi regime in Austria. Includes article by Oliver Rathkolb on restitution policies and a list of privately owned artworks still missing.
www.kreisky.org
- CBC Witness: Restitution - About the plunder of Europe's art by the Nazi's during WWII and the efforts to return it.
tv.cbc.ca/witness/restitution/index.html
- Commission for Art Recovery - Organization that dentifies and locates art stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators, and registers claims for the victims of Nazi art theft.
www.comartrecovery.org
- Enemy Property: The British Government Claims Scheme - [United Kingdom] Site contains details of the claims scheme and how to apply. It also has summary details of records held at the Public Record Office relating to UK property seized during WWII from organisations and individuals resident in countries with which the UK was at war.
www.enemyproperty.gov.uk
- Hitler's Capital - Part II of an article by James S. Plaut, in which he tells the story of retrieving and collecting of masterpieces looted by Rosenberg, Goring, and Hitler and hidden in Germany. [The Atlantic Monthly]
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/hitler.htm
- Holocaust Assets: US State Department - Links to US government documents relating to Holocaust-Era Assets, including looted art.
www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocausthp.html
- Holocaust Claims Processing Office: Art Claims - [New York State] Downloadable claims form.
www.claims.state.ny.us/art.htm
- Holocaust-Era Assets - International list of current activities regarding holocaust-era assets. A project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in conjunction with the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets.
www.ushmm.org/assets/index.html
- Holocaust: The Plunder of Art Treasures - Excerpt from the International Military Tribunal, Nurnberg: Nazi Conspracy and Aggression, Volume 1, Chapter 14.
www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-14-plunder-01.html
- Interministerial Commission for Art Works - [Italy] Catalogue of Italian art treasures lost during the Second World War. Lists over 2500 objects classified under 1512 headings and accompanied by 280 photographs.
www.esteri.it/polestera/dgrc/opereperse/homeeng.htm
- Loot for the Master Race - Article by James S. Plaut, who was directly responsible for recovering the works of art which had been looted by Rosenberg, Göring, and Hitler and hidden in Germany. [The Atlantic Monthly]
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/loot.htm
- Lost Art Internet Database - A government-sponsored German database of art objects either stolen by the Nazis or for which no legal proprietor has been found.
www.lostart.de/index.php3?lang=english
- Museum Security Network: World War II and Looted Art - Compilation of international articles about art lost during World War II.
museum-security.org/ww2/index.html
- Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US - Present a historical record of the collection and disposition of the assets of Holocaust victims that came into the possession or control of the Government of the United States.
www.holocaustassets.gov
- Project for the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses - Official reports on the Nazis' seizure of cultural property in France, Russia, Europe, Occupied Territories, Neutral countries and Latin America.
docproj.loyola.edu
- Restitution - Art - [Czech Republic] Database of works of art from public collections in the Czech Republic that come, or may come, from the property of the victims of the Holocaust.
www.restitution-art.cz/english/main.html
- The Art Newspaper - Looted Art - Selection of recently published articles on the subject of art looted during the Second World War. Also publishes a complete list of names of the dealers, museum curators, collectors and Nazi officials involved in trading art in occupied Europe, as reported to the US government in 1946 by the Office of Strategic Services.
www.theartnewspaper.com/looted/lootedart.asp
- The Central Registry of Information for Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 - A comprehensive website containing internationally available information and research relating to cultural property looted between 1933-1945.
lootedart.com
- The Schloss Collection: Non-restituded Works Looted 1943-1998 - Catalogue listing works of art from the Schloss collection not restituted as of July 1, 1997.
www.france.diplomatie.fr/archives/dossiers/schloss/index_ang.html
- The Spoils of War - [Germany] Biannual newsletter published by the German Coordination Office of the Federal States for the Return of Cultural Property.
www.beutekunst.de/bremen/bremen0.html
- US National Archives Bibliography of Holocaust Era Assets - Provides categorized bibliographic citations, printed and online, dealing with Holocaust-Era Assets. Includes categories for looted art.
www.archives.gov/research_room/holocaust_era_assets/bibliographies/bibliographies.html
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