Videos - Nazi Plunder

70 YEARS ON,
SEARCHING FOR ARTWORK LOOTED BY THE NAZIS
PBS Newshour 2016 (10.11)
For many Jewish families whose artwork was stolen by the Nazis during World War II, the theft was compounded by murder in concentration camps. For the children and grandchildren of survivors, finding the missing art can be an international decades-long search through archives and across continents, into the archives of museums, galleries and auction houses.
NewsHour’s Phil Hirschkorn reports.

WHERE THE NAZIS HID
$3.5 BILLION OF STOLEN ART
Smithsonian Channel 2009 (8.32)

In the spring of 1945, with the
Third Reich crumbling, the Nazis
hid their stolen art in a sealed
salt mine. But when U.S. troops arrived, they found the opening
to the mine had been destroyed.

HEIRS DEMAND LIST OF
STOLEN NAZI ART
CNN 2013 (4.10)

NAZI LOOTING: THEFT AND RECOVERY
Shauna Isaac
Talks at Google 2018 (50.40)
The Nazis looted over 20% of European Art
during WWII, confiscating art from museums
and Jewish families throughout Europe. The effects
of Nazi looting are still evident today as looted objects continue to resurface. In this talk, Shauna Isaac gives a history of Nazi looting, its lasting impact and a personal account of her family's efforts
to recover their own looted artwork.

RETURNING ART STOLEN BY NAZIS IS DIFFICULT.
CNN (5.44)
The search is on for owners of some 1,400 masterpieces found in Munich. CNN speaks to an expert
about the challenge.

SECRETS OF THE NAZI TREASURE
World at War 2017 (50.14)
Set in the Austrian Alps is a deep lake that has enthralled the world for decades: Lake Toplitz. It is said that a large collection of documents and the remains of a treasure trove can be found in its depths.
These items were allegedly stowed away by Adolf Hitler and his senior followers just before the end of World War II in the wake of the Holocaust.
Now, a massive effort is underway to find it.

NAZI TREASURE HUNTERS
Channel 4

About the Show

Hitler had a dream to amass the world's greatest
art collection: a dream that became
a nightmare for Europe.
This series joins the people who hunt it down
and return it.

WHY ART RESTITUTION MATTERS |
MONICA DUGOT | TEDXYESHIVAUNIVERSITY
TEDX Talks 29116 (16.96)
How does the reclaiming of Nazi-stolen artworks bring justice to the victims of the Holocaust? International Director of Restitution at Christie’s, Monica Dugot, explains why she feels the work she does every day is helping restore a past that has since been destroyed.

Monica Dugot is Senior Vice President, International Director of Restitution at Christie's, coordinating restitution issues globally from her New York base in the Chairman’s Office. Ms. Dugot and her global team work with specialist departments and with the art law group to investigate provenance between 1933 and 1945; to identify possibly spoliated but unrestituted objects; and to help in resolving restitution claims for works consigned for sale. Prior to joining Christie's, Ms. Dugot served for almost eight years as Deputy Director of the New York State Banking Department's Holocaust Claims Processing Office (HCPO), where she coordinated the Art Claims branch of the HCPO's work and assisted owners and heirs in seeking to recover art collections
that were lost or looted during the Nazi era.

ADVENTURES IN DISCOVERING LOST NAZI ART
Arthur Brand |
TEDx Talks 2015 (19.39)
Rediscovering looted or supposedly lost art objects is one of the key objectives why Arthur Brand often goes undercover, endangering himself. As an art historian Arthur will be talking about his recent adventure in discovering lost Nazi art including the works that were ordered by and made for Hitler himself. For him, the most important thing is not punishing the people that do this but getting the art back.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

FOUND NAZI GOLD HIDEOUT THAT INCLUDED
GOLD TEETH FILINGS
American Heroes Channel 2016 (3.32)

GOLD AND VALUABLES

PSYCHOANALYSING
HITLER'S RARE, CONTROVERSIAL PAINTINGS
Channel 4 Documentary 2018 (3.43)

NAZIS BURN MARXIST BOOKS
British Movietone 2015 (1.16)
Burning of non-German literature before the Berlin Opera House is latest phase of campaign. Night shots of procession. Shots of bonfire. Burning books. Procession with flaming torches. Torches onto fire. Goebbels speaking and shouting "Heil Hitler". Shots of books being thrown into fire.

STOLEN WORDS: THE NAZI PLUNDER
OF JEWISH BOOKS
US LibraryOfCongress 2016 (1.01.02)
Mark Glickman discussed his book, "Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books," an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world--tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from
European Jewish families and institutions.

THE BOOK THIEVES:
THE NAZI LOOTING OF EUROPE'S LIBRARIES
& THE RACE TO RETURN A LITERARY INHERITANCE
US LibraryOfCongress 2018 (59.58)

Anders Rydell discussed his book, the story of the systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries by Nazis during World War II, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. Through extensive new research, Rydell reveals the untold story of how the Nazis began to compile libraries of their own that were used to wage an intellectual war on their enemies. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, communists, liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons and other opposition groups
were appropriated for Nazi research and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners.

NAZI-LOOTED BOOKS STILL FAR FROM HOME
US LibraryOfCongress 201 (59.58)
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted tells the tale of large collections of books confiscated by the Nazis from individuals and institutions during the 1930s and early 1940s and secreted away in storage facilities around the Third Reich. Grimsted discussed the logistical and legal issues involved in repatriating the confiscated books to the heirs of their original owners.

THIS MAN BETRAYED NAZIS
BY STEALING LOOTED JEWISH VALUABLES
Smithsonian Channel 2017 (2.35)
In April 1944, the Nazis began to systematically terrorize the Jews living in Hungary. Shortly afterwards, they forced them to hand over their valuables – worth an estimated $350 million.

MAN FIGHTS NAZI PLUNDER
National Geographic 2018 (6.39)
An important museum in Madrid and Claude Cassirer battle over ownership of a $20 million painting that Nazis
seized from his grandmother.

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