Degenerate Art,” an exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris on the Nazis’ persecution of modern artists, is about culture wars and where they can lead.

During the Nazi dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945, experts say that at least 200,000 works of art were taken from their mostly Jewish owners in Germany, whether through direct ...

New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...

Claims on the Guelph Treasure stretch back nearly two decades, and Germany’s plans to change how restitutions are evaluated ...

Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany ...

Widespread newspaper coverage called the "Action against the Un-German Spirit" a success. The Nazi war on "un-German" individual expression had begun. As early as two weeks before, American ...

The early period of the war, 1939-41, was successful for the German army and there was little ill-effect on the civilian population. In fact, early military successes actually gave rise to ...

This was a non-aggression pact that included a secret agreement to divide Poland between the two countries This pact made war virtually inevitable, as it meant the USSR would not oppose a German ...