The story of the US Monuments Men

New research challenges Russians’ claim that they own many cultural valuables from the independent state

How artists and the arts fared under the Vichy regime and the German occupation of France, 1940-44

Ostensibly disparate films illuminate art after the end of World War II

Shakeouts of Nazi-looted occurring increasingly in the marketplace

Work is expected to start next month

The inventors of a new technique for dating paintings say it can prove whether a work was made before or after 1945

They dispute claims made by Julius Schoeps on Picassos in their collection

Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m

Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m

Marei von Saher claims they are Nazi loot, while Norton Simon believes it has legal title to the paintings

Nearly 80 pictures, including works by Cranach and Kauffmann, were seized from the German embassy in London

The late collector Heini Thyssen forced himself to forget his family’s Nazi involvement, but so did the countries that vied for his and his father’s pictures in the 1980s. This well documented book gives the details

Last month we reported that a Nazi picture in the London gallery was taken by British soldiers at the end of World War II. We have now discovered that other works of art were also removed

We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art

Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele

A short history of nazi loot restitution efforts

The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II

The vast collection of sculptural works removed on the outbreak of World War II are now back on view in the newly-restored building

Results of survey lay bare how the US fell short

These essays emanate from a series of Polish conferences

Marilynn Alsdorf had hoped the case would be thrown out of court

Christie’s follows Sotheby’s and appoints a director of restitution

But the 139 works go to Dutch State, not collector’s heirs

Alexander Sokolov does not seem interested in returning looted art

A legal loophole may enable the restitution to Germany of a collection taken to the USSR by a Soviet army officer in 1945