The London gallery aims to ensure that they are not war loot and appeals for assistance in checking their recent histories

At the liberation of Paris, Picasso declared, “I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings.” This exhibition sifts the evidence

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

The Krupps go to war again

The paintings have been missing since 1945

A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution

A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis

He died aged 87

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow

Maus, the highly successful re-telling of the Holocaust, uses mice, cats and pigs as the protagonists

The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia

Conference papers of the 1988-89 touring exhibition are scutinised

After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books

They have already dug out several dozen armoured cars, field-guns, transporters and other vehicles

An irony that the American art world will enjoy after the Mapplethorpe censorship row: the N.E.A. is sponsoring a partial replay of the Nazi “Entartete Kunst” exhibition of 1937