Documents

Acronyms
  • AA Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), Berlin 
  • AG Arbeitsgruppe (Working Group) 
  • AGR Archives Générale de Royaume (National Archives), Brussels 
  • AHC Ardelia Hall Collection 
  • ALIU Art Looting Investigatory Unit 
  • AMG Allied Military Government 
  • AMN Archives de Musées Nationaux (Archives of the National Museums), Paris 
  • AN-Paris Archives nationales de France, Site de Paris (National Archives of France, Paris Site) 
  • APA Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policy Office) 
  • ARA Algemeen Rijksarchief (National Archives), Brussels 
  • BA Bundesarchiv, former acronym; now BArch 
  • BADV Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen (Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues), Berlin 
  • BArch Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives) 
  • BArch-MA Bundesarchiv, Militärarchiv (Federal Archives-Military Archives), Freiburg 
  • BIA Bureau d’investigation artistique (Office of Art Investigation) 
  • BTG Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft (Brussels Trust Company) 
  • CADN Centre des archives diplomatiques de Nantes (Center for Diplomatic Archives in Nantes) 
  • CARAN Centre d’accueil et de récherche des Archives nationals (National Archives Center for Reception and Research), Paris 
  • CCP Central Collecting Point 
  • CDJC Centre de documentation juive contemporaine (Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation), Paris 
  • CEANA Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en la Argentina 
  • CEGES Centre d'Études et de Documentation de Guerre et Sociétés contemporaines (Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society), Brussels 
  • CGQJ Commissariat général aux questions juives (General Commissariat for Jewish Questions) 
  • CHAN Centre historique des Archives nationales (Historical Center of the National Archives), Paris; now AN-Paris 
  • CIR Consolidated Intelligence Report 
  • CRA Commission de récupération artistique (Commission for the Recovery of Art), Paris 
  • CVA Centrinis Valstybinis archyvas (Central State Archive), Vilnius 
  • DBFU Beauftragter des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP (Commissioner of the Führer for the Supervision of the Entire Intellectual and Ideological Schooling and Training of the NSDAP) 
  • DGER Direction général de l'ensignement et de la récherche (General Directorate for Study and Research), Paris 
  • DHM Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), Berlin 
  • DIR Detailed Intelligence Report 
  • DOS Dienst voor de Oorlogsslachtoffer (Service for War Victims), Brussels 
  • DSK Devisenschutzkommando (Currency Protection Commando) 
  • ERR Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Operational Staff Reichsleiter Rosenberg)
  • FDFA Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
  • FDHA Federal Department of Home Affairs
  • GA RF Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archive of the Russian Federation), Moscow
  • Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police)
  • GFP Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) 
  • HAG Hauptarbeitsgruppe (Main Working Group) 
  • IEJ Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute for Research on the Jewish Question), Frankfurt am Main, later Hungen 
  • IfZ Institut für Zeitsgeschichte (Institute of Contemporary History), Munich 
  • IISG / IISH Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (International Institute of Social History), Amsterdam
  • IMT International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
  • JHM Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historical Museum), Amsterdam
  • LV ABM Landesverwaltung der Archive, Bibliotheken und Museen (Provincial Authority for Archives, Libraries, and Museums)
  • MAEE Ministère des Affaires étrangère et européannes, (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs), Paris
  • M-Aktion Möbel-Aktion (Furniture Operation)
  • MBF Der Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich (Military Commander in France)
  • MCCP Munich Central Collecting Point
  • MEA Ministère des Affaires économiques (Ministry of Economic Affairs), Brussels
  • MEZ Ministerie van Economische Zaken (Ministry of Economic Affairs), Brussels
  • MFA&A Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives
  • MNR Musées Nationaux Récupération (National Museums of Recovered Artwork)
  • MVD Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
  • NACP National Archives of the United States, College Park, MD
  • NARA National Archives and Records Administration
  • NKVD Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
  • NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National-Socialist German Workers Party)
  • OAD Offenbach Archival Depot
  • OBIP Office des biens et intérêts privés (Office of Private Property and Interests)
  • OUSCCPAC Office of United States Chief Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
  • OKH Oberkommando des Heeres (High Command of the Army)
  • OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces)
  • OMGUS Office of Military Government, United States
  • OSS Office of Strategic Services
  • PA AA Politisches Archiv, Auswärtiges Amt (Political Archive of the Foreign Office), Berlin
  • PRO Public Record Office; now TNA
  • PS Paris-Storey
  • RA Collection des fonds des services de la récupération artistiques (Collection of fonds from art recovery agencies), MAEE fond designation
  • RG Record Group, NACP designation
  • RGVA Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv (Russian State Military Archive), Moscow
  • RIOD Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Royal Institute of War Documentation); now NIOD
  • RKO Reichskommissariat / Reichskommissar für das Ostland (Reich Commissar / Commissariat for Ostland)
  • RKU Reichskommissariat / Reichskommissar Ukraine (Reich Commissar / Commissariat for Ukraine)
  • RMbO Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories)
  • RSHA Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office)
  • RV Rose Valland, former MAEE fond designation
  • SEA Staff Evidence Analysis
  • SCL Sous-commission des livres (Sub-Commission for Books)
  • SD Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service)
  • SHAEF Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
  • Sipo / SiPo Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police)
  • SOMA Studie en Documentatiecentrum Oorlog en Hedendaagse Maatschappij (Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society), Brussels
  • SROA Service de remise en place des oeuvres d’art (Service for the Return of Works of Art)
  • SVG Service des Victimes de la Guerre (Service for War Victims), Brussels
  • TMI Tribunal militaire internationale (International Military Tribunal)
  • TNA The National Archives, London-Kew; formerly PRO
  • TsDAVO Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv derzhavnoi vlady ta upravlinnia Ukraïny (Central State Archive of the Highest Agencies of State Power and Administration of Ukraine), Kyiv (Kiev)
  • TsDAZhR URSR Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv Zhovtnevoï Revoliutsiï Ukraïns'koï Radians'koï Sotsialistychnoï Respubliki (Central State Archive of the October Revolution, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), now TsDAVO
  • TsGAOR SSSR Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Oktiabr'skoi Revoliutsii Soiuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Central State Archive of the October Revolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), now part of GA RF
  • TsGOA SSSR Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi osobyi arkhiv Soiuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Central State Special Archive of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), now part of RGVA
  • TsKhIDK Tsentr khraneniia istoriko-dokumental'nykh kollektsii (Center for the Preservation of Historico-Documentary Collections), now part of RGVA
  • TVK Treuhandverwaltung für Kulturgut (Trust Administration for Cultural Assets)
  • UNIDROIT Institute for the Unification or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (Institut International pour l'Unification du Droit Prive)
  • URO United Restitution Organization
  • USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
  • YIVO YIVO Jewish Research Institute, before 1939 in Wilno, Poland; after 1939 in New York
  • ZBHS Zentralbibliothek der Hohen Schule (Central Library of the Hohe Schule NSDAP)
Conference Programs


A New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources: World War II Provenance Research Seminar
United States National Archives, Washington DC, May 2011

Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects

S. 2212: Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act
United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2012
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2212is/pdf/BILLS-112s2212is.pdf

Exhibition Catalogs


Gute Geschäfte,  Kuntshandel in Berlin 1933-1945
Aktives Museum, Berlin, 2011
http://www.aktives-museum.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Extern/Dokumente/Folder_mail.pdf

Legal Cases


The Detroit Institute of Arts v. Claude George Ullin
Decision of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, March 2007

http://128.197.153.21/artlaw/events/10-21-08-doc1.pdf

Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Court Judgement, September 2009
http://www.lootedart.com/O0KFQ5958471


USA vs. Portrait of Wally, A Painting by Egon Scheile
Court Judgement, September 2009
http://www.lootedart.com/O0KFN5106061

MoMA vs. Grosz
Court Judgement, January 2010
http://www.lootedart.com/O41BRQ982751


Hans Sachs Poster Collection Case
Decision of the Kammergericht, February 2010
http://www.lootedart.com/O5SV3A226231

Grosz v. Museum of Modern Art
Amicus Brief, June 2010

Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation 
US Appeal Court Ruling, August 2010

Dunbar v. Seger-Thomschitz
Decision of the US Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, August 2010

Bakalar v. Vavra
Ruling of US Court of Appeals Second Circuit, September 2010
http://www.lootedart.com/OHFM3Q979231

Andrew Orkin v. The Swiss Confederation, el. al.
Decision of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, January 2011
http://www.comartrecovery.org/sites/default/files/dismissdecision.pdf

Reports and Surveys


The Department of State Bulletin: "The Recovery of Cultural Objects Dispersed During World War II"
Ardelia Hall, August 1951
http://www.commartrecovery.org/sites/default/files/CFAR%20POLALND%20RECOVERY.pdf

Property Restitution, Compensation, and Preservation, Competing Claims in Post-Communist Europe
Delissa Ridgway (United States Foreign Claims Settlement Commission), Stuart E. Eizenstat (Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade), Washington, DC, July 1996
http://www.archive.org/details/propertyrestitut00unit


Segundo Informe de Avance, "Posible Circulación en la Argentina de Obras de Arte Robadas por Agentes del Tercer Reich en Europa"
Comisión para el Esclaracimiento de las Actividades de Nazismo en la Argentina (CEANA), Miguel Angel Navarro, José Emilio Burucúa, Buenos Aires, July 1998

Proceeding of the Washington Conference On Holocaust-Era Assets
US Department of State, April 1999
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocaust/heac.html


Mission d'étude sur la spoliation des Juifs de France : Rapport général
La Documentation française, April 2000
http://lesrapports.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/BRP/004000897/0000.pdf

Rapporto Generale
Commissione per la ricostruzione delle vicende che hanno caratterizzato in Italia le attività di acquisizione dei beni dei cittadini ebrei da parte di organismi pubblici e privati, Rome, April 2001
http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/DICA/beni_ebraici/

Final Report of the Independent Commission of the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War
Independent Commission of the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War, Zürich, 2002
http://www.uek.ch/en/index.htm


First Global Report on Restitution of Jewish Property 1952-2004
Steering Committee on Restitution of Rights and Jewish Property, Jerusalem, 2005
http://www.lootedart.com/web_images/artwork/Globa001.PDF
http://www.lootedart.com/web_images/artwork/Globa002.PDF

Nazi-Era Stolen Art and U.S. Museums: A Survey
Claims Conference and the WJRO, 2006
http://www.claimscon.org/forms/U.S._Museum_Survey_Report.pdf

Guidelines for implementing the Statement by the Federal Government, the Länder and the national associations of local authorities on the tracing and return of Nazi-confiscated art, especially Jewish property, of December 1999 
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, 2007
Deutsch:
English: http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/_Anlagen/BKM/2009-03-26-handreichung-englisch-barrierefrei.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2

Rapport Final


Schema
Commissie voor de schadeloosstelling van de leden van de Joodse Gemeenschap van België voor hun goederen die werden geplunderd of achtergelaten tijdens de oorlog 1940-1945, Brussels, February 2008

Rapporto Sull'Attivita 'della Commissione per Il Recupero del Patrimonio Bibliografico della Comunita' Ebraica di Roma, Razziato nel 1943
Commissione per il Recupero del Patrimonio Bibliografico della Communità Ebraica di Roma, Razziato nel 1943, Rome, February 2009
http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/USRI/confessioni/rapporto/rapporto_finale_attivita_Commissione2.pdf

Report on the Activities of the Commission for the Recovery of the Bibliographic Patrimony of the Jewish Community of Rome Stolen in 1943
Commision for Recovery of the Bibliographic Patrimony of the Jewish Community of Rome Stolen in 1943, Rome, February 2009
http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/USRI/confessioni/doc/rapporto_finale_eng.pdf

Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A World-Wide Preliminary Overview
Holocaust Era Assets Conference, June 2009
http://www.claimscon.org/forms/prague/looted-art.pdf

La Spoilation des Bienes Juifs au Luxembourg, 1940-1945
Commission spéciale pour l’étude des spoliations des biens juifs au Luxembourg pendant les années de guerre 1940‐1945, June 2009

Report 2009
Advisory Committee on the the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War, 2009
http://www.commartrecovery.org/sites/default/files/Report2009.pdf

FDHA/FDFA report on the state of work on Nazi-looted art, in particular, on the subject of provenance research
Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA)/Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), November 2010
http://www.commartrecovery.org/sites/default/files/SChweizBerichtEnglish.pdf

Report of the Spoilation Advisory Panel in Respect of an Oil Sketch by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 'The Coronation of the Virgin', Now in the Possession of the Samuel Courtauld Trust
The Right Honourable Sir David Hirs, December 2010
http://www.commartrecovery.org/sites/default/files/SpoliationPanelDecision.pdf

Reconstructing the Records of Nazi Cultural Plunder: A Survey of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, 2011
http://www.iisg.nl/publications/errsurvey/errsurvey_total-110322.pdf


Research Papers

The Odyssey of the Turgenev Library from Paris, 1945-2002 Books as Victims and Trophies of War
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, 2003
http://www.iisg.nl/publications/respap42.pdf

Street Scenes and Other Scenes from Berlin - Legal Issues in the Restitution of Art after the Third Reich
The German Law Journal, Anna Blume Huttenlauch, October, 2006
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