Exploring the Effects of California’s New Holocaust Art Restitution Law
Background on Nazi Looted Art World War II represented one of the largest art theft operations in history with a staggering twenty percent of all European art looted by the Nazi Party. The residual effects of the illegal seizures of cultural objects still prompt the creation of new laws nearly eighty years later. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany implemented a regime of systematic persecution against the Jewish people, ultimately leading to the Holocaust, during which nearly six million Jews...