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Wilhelm, German Crown Prince and son of Wilhelm II, with Adolf Hitler in March 1933. Beginning in 1925, some members of higher levels of the German nobility joined the Nazi Party, registered by their title, date of birth, NSDAP Party registration number, and date of joining the Nazi Party, from the registration of their first prince (Ernst) into NSDAP in 1928, until the end of World War II in ...
Organizations with information on a piece's history, museums in particular, often have a disincentive to share information that could assist in an heir's claim. [7] For organized looting, see: Art theft and looting by Nazi Germany; Art theft and looting by Japan; Art theft and looting by the Soviet Union
The Hitler family comprises the relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party, who was the dictator of Germany, holding the title Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
For Jewish heirs seeking to reclaim art stolen from their families during the Holocaust, decades passed before the extent of Nazi looting in Europe was widely acknowledged and documented and steps ...
The following is a list of notable people from A to E (last name) who were at some point a follower of the ideology of Nazism or affiliated with the Nazi Party. This is not meant to be a list of every person who was ever a member of the Nazi Party, some entries can be found elsewhere on the encyclopedia.
Franz Schwede – The first Nazi elected as Bürgermeister of a German City he was later Gauleiter of Gau Pomerania, Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Pomerania and an SA-Obergruppenführer. Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk – Reich Minister of Finance (1932–1945) and "Leading Minister" of the last cabinet of the Third Reich under ...
Switzerland's Basel Art Museum will pay an undisclosed sum to heirs of a German art historian, it said on Friday, concluding it bought works from his personal collection in the 1930s after he was ...
A Swiss museum says its delighted to receive more than $1 billion worth of paintings from a Nazi-art hoarder, but it also says it has some questions. Cornelius Gurlitt inherited several paintings ...