Without any attempt to reach an agreement between the two sides, the commission will be able to involve itself.Under the new ...

The German government has approved a new system to make it easier to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners. View on ...

The Federal Cabinet of Germany has approved a plan to reform the processes for the restitution of Nazi-looted art.

The new body will be easier to access and its decisions will be legally binding. But some lawyers and Jewish heirs are not ...

The German government on Wednesday signed off on a reform plan for the process of returning art looted by the Nazis, despite criticism from victims' families and lawyers.

In recent years, some of those efforts have paid off, as a swath of Nazi-looted art has been returned to the heirs of the original owners around the globe. But many of those restitutions occurred ...

During World War II, Adolf Hitler and his regime were responsible for an aggressive and methodical campaign to confiscate, hoard and destroy cultural assets. Special military art units were designated ...

Following the establishment of the Washington Principles on Nazi Confiscated Art in 1998, under which some countries are lagging, the Dutch government began developing a new restitution process.

The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of art were removed from display across Germany.

A trove of artworks hoarded by the son of Hitler's art dealer have gone on public display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Switzerland and the Bundeskunsthalle Museum in Germany. The collection had ...

Hitler, who was twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, is known to have sold his artwork in his youth. Dozens of works attributed to him, which were regarded by art experts as being of ...