Działania RFN w latach 1998-2014 na rzecz zwrotu dóbr kultury zrabowanych ofiarom narodowego socjalizmu
Activities of the Federal Republic of Germany for the restitution of cultural goods stolen from the victims of National Socialism in the years 1998-2014

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the most important political, legal, organizational and financial measures taken at alllevels of the German state since the end of the twentieth century in order to intensify provenance research regarding cultural goods that are currently held by the German public institutions, but also citizens, businesses and other private entities. The particular aim of this research is to identify cultural goods stolen by the Nazis from their rightful owners. The author describes the recent endeavours in this regard for which the immediate impulse was the so-called Schwabing (Munich) art discovery. The article also discusses the most famous cases of restitution in recent years and their evaluation in Germany, as examples of the implementation of the new state restitution policy and also as yardsticks of changes in public attitudes to this issue.

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