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Nazi plunder (German: Raubkunst) was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany. Jewish property was looted beginning in 1933 in Germany and was a key part of the Holocaust .
The German Nazi Party stored art, gold and other objects that had been either plundered or moved for safekeeping during World War II at various storage sites. These sites included salt mines at Altaussee and Merkers and a copper mine at Siegen .
It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Germany and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Union, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork by the Nazis has resulted in the loss of many pieces being scattered ...
The discovery of more than 1,500 artworks in a flat in Munich serves as an inconvenient reminder of one of the unresolved wrongs of the Third Reich.
Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt (28 December 1932 – 6 May 2014) was a German art collection owner. The son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art gallery director and Nazi-era dealer of looted art who worked for Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring, [1] Gurlitt inherited from his father a collection of over 1,400 artworks known as the Gurlitt trove or Gurlitt Collection, a small number (less than 20) of ...
While some artworks have been returned to families of Nazi victims, [16] many of the artwork seized have never been returned to their pre-Nazi owners. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In 2015 it was discovered that some of the paintings in the Göring collection that had been recovered by Monuments Men were given to the families of Nazis instead of being returned ...
Nazi plunder included private and public art collections, artefacts, precious metals, books, and personal possessions. Hitler and Göring in particular were interested in acquiring looted art treasures from occupied Europe, [ 10 ] the former planning to use the stolen art to fill the galleries of the planned Führermuseum (Leader's Museum ...
Paul Cassirer, a German Jewish art dealer, played a key role in bringing van Gogh artworks to Germany before the war. [40] [41] While French museums owned only three van Goghs before WWII, van Gogh was, according to Felix Krämer, co-curator of the 2019 exhibition Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story, the most popular modern artist in Germany ...