New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish ...

(JTA) — For years after World War II, the once magnificent Goerlitz Synagogue in Germany housed a family with goats and pigs. The roof of the Art Deco building was crumbling; the government came ...

But at the end of the war, with Nazi Germany in ruins, expert teams from the Red Army seized more than two and a half million art objects, some 12 million books and miles of archives. Among them ...

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.

Germany’s federal government has set up a new arbitration court to simplify the process of returning property stolen during the Nazi regime. The court is intended to make the final decision in a ...