DVDs & Streaming Videos
To locate DVDs use the Library Catalog or browse the shelves in the library. Use the Guide to Streaming Videos to learn what is available at KU.
- Hitler’s MuseumWest Long Branch, NJ: Kultur, 2009. This documentary relates the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art - The Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck, which for the Belgian people represents a national shrine. 103 minutes. DVD
- The Rape of Europa[Venice, CA] : Menemsha Films, [2008], c2006. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II. 117 minutes. DVD
- Man Fights Nazi PlunderA National Geographic report of the battle between an important museum in Madrid and Claude Cassirer over ownership of a $20 million painting that Nazis seized from his grandmother.
Selected Art Museum Repatriation Projects
- Metropolitan Museum of Art's Provenance Research ProjectHas an emphasis on art work looted by Nazi's that may have been acquired by the museum.
- National Gallery of Art World War II Provenance ResearchPhotos and history for eleven paintings in the collection that were looted during the war.
- The J. Paul Getty Museum's Research on Museum Collection Provenance, 1933-45Research on the provenance (history of ownership) of works in its collection during the period 1933 to 1945, that is, from the rise to power of the Nazi party to its defeat.
Books on Holocaust-era Theft
Rescuing DaVinci by Dallas: Laurel Pub., c2006. Gathers together nearly 500 photographs documenting Nazi theft of tens of thosands of artworks from European museums and private collections and details the painstaking efforts of Allied armies to recover and return the items.
America and the Return of Nazi Contraband by Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. In the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings, books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture hidden in thousands of secret hideways. This book reveals how the American Military Government in German, spearheaded by a few dozen dedicated Monuments Fine Arts and Archives (MFA&A) officers and enlisted men, coped with restoring Europe's cultural heritage. Caught up in often bitter diplomatic wrangling during and after the war, the American restitution effort struggled to unearth and return what the Nazis had hidden.
Lost Lives, Lost Art by New York: Vendome Press, 2010. The compelling stories of fifteen Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance.
Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection by Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Inc., 2012. This book explores the formation of the Nazi art collection and the methods used by Goring and his party to strip occupied Europe of a large part of its artistic heritage.
Web Information
- International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural PropertyLinks researchers to archival materials consisting of descriptions of records and, in many cases, digital images of the records that relate to cultural property that was stolen, looted, seized, forcibly sold, or otherwise lost during the Nazi-era. Cultural property documented in these records covers a broad range from artworks to books and libraries, religious objects, antiquities, archival documents, carvings, silver and more.
- Looted Valuables: Holocause Assets CollectionPart of the Holocaust website posted by the National Archives and the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
- Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal ProjectProvides a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945).
- Lost Art Internet DatabaseThe Lost Art Database is run by the Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg, Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property. It was set up jointly by the Government and the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany and registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners.