Directory of World War II Resources

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• Museum Provenance Research

Resources in This Category

• Amber Room Organisation

  http://www.amberroom.org/
  Aims to investigate the remains of the Amber Room and other objects of art and culture missing since WWII.

• Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation

  http://www.kreisky.org/
  [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.

• Commission for Art Recovery

  http://www.commartrecovery.org/
  Organization that dentifies and locates art stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators, and registers claims for the victims of Nazi art theft.

• Enemy Property: The British Government Claims Scheme

  http://www.enemyproperty.bis.gov.uk/
  [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.

• Hitler's Capital

  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/hitler.htm
  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]

• Holocaust: The Plunder of Art Treasures

  http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-14-plunder-01.html
  Excerpt from the International Military Tribunal, Nurnberg: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume 1, Chapter 14.

• Loot for the Master Race

  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/loot.htm
  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]

• Lost Art Internet Database

  http://www.lostart.de/
  A government-sponsored German database of art objects either stolen by the Nazis or for which no legal proprietor has been found.

• Monuments Men Foundation

  http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/
  Men and women helped to recover works of art stolen by the Nazis. Tells their stories, lists works still missing, and documents more recent discoveries. [English, German, Italian]

• Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal

  http://www.nepip.org/
  Provides a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that were created before 1946, and changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945).

• Project for the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses

  http://docproj.loyola.edu/
  Official reports on the Nazis' seizure of cultural property in France, Russia, Europe, Occupied Territories, Neutral countries and Latin America.

• US National Archives Bibliography of Holocaust Era Assets

  http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/
  Provides categorized bibliographic citations, printed and online, dealing with Holocaust-Era Assets. Includes categories for looted art.

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