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Gardner Museum Thefts: Special Agent Geoff Kelly

To learn more about the missing works and watch additional interviews regarding the theft click here. 

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La Guerra conto l’arte - The War Against Art

The War Against Art was published in September 1944 and compare before and after photographs of buildings, monuments and art bombed in Italy during the Second World War (1). 

The entire book can be viewed here.

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Very interesting read!

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"Entartete Kunst, Ausstellung der NSDAP im Haus der Kunst am Königsplatz, 1938" by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H02648 / CC-BY-SA. via Wikimedia Commons

Max Nordau & Degenerate Art 

The Nazis adopted the term “Entartete Kunst” or “Degenerate Art”, from the author Max Nordau book “Entartung” (Degeneration), published in 1892. Nordau theorized that modern and avant-garde art must be derived from sick and deranged minds that had the potential to corrupt the view of an entire generation. Paul Schultze-Naumburg, a Nazi party member, later built upon a more sinister hypothesis of Nordau’s theory in his book Art and Race. Read more about it here. 

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Preservation of Historical Monuments

Memorandum from General Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding preservation of historical monuments in Europe. May 26, 1944. [Eisenhower's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Bradley Omar N. ; National Archives ID #7505528]

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Otto Dix. The Trench, 1920-23.

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Former Nazi Party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg in the witness box at the International Military Tribunal war crimes trial at Nuremberg.

Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Woman in Gold Official Trailer (2015) aka the provenance of the Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt

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Mapping the ERR's Looting

A map showing the activities of the ERR in occupied Europe from the collection of Yad Vashem Photo Archive via Yad Vashem Photo Archive

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Robert Bereny. Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, c. 1927-1928. Gergely Barki, 43, a researcher at Hungary's National Gallery, noticed Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by 20th Century painter Robert Bereny while watching TV with his daughter Lola in 2009. Barki recognised it immediately from a faded black-and-white photo dating from a 1928 exhibition archived in the National Gallery.

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Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi (1943)

Education for Death is a U.S. Government contacted animated propaganda film produced by Walt Disney and directed by Clyde Geronimi. The short is loosely based on Gregor Ziemer's non-fiction book of the same title.

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Empty Veronese picture frame after the evacuation of the Louvre in 1939. Photo Source: Lynn Nicholas

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Claude Oscar Monet. Landscape at the evening, chalk - paper, 17.5 cm x 35 cm.

THE MONET IN THE SUITCASE

Monet's Landscape at the evening, has been reported found on the Lost Art Internet Database under the category: "Koffer fund" ("Suitcase works"). The landscape was found September 5, 2014 in Cornelius Gurlitt's suitcase of in the hospital where he died May.

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"Hilter's Albums" Documenting Looted Art During Nuremberg War Crime Trial 

"These albums, created by the staff of a special task force, the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, or ERR, document the unprecedented and systematic looting of Europe by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The ERR was the main Nazi agency engaged in the theft of cultural treasures in Nazi-occupied countries." The album documents the seizure of 21,903 artworks.

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Restitution: The Documentary 

On September 1st 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. By the end of World War 2 over 30 million people including 6 million Jews had been killed. Polish Jewry was all but wiped out. Post-war Poland was still a very bad place to be Jewish. There have been attempts at restitution in the past, but to no avail. 

Restitution: The Documentary will start filming in Poland in October 2014. Support in making it a reality, any donation will go a long way to ensure this projects success. 

Click to donate

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"X-Ray of Hitler's Brain" Anti-fascist propaganda cards, c. 1942.