Artworks by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso were among hundreds in a Bavarian state collection that were knowingly stolen by the Nazis. During the Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945, experts say that ...

(JTA) — For years after World War II, the once magnificent Goerlitz Synagogue in Germany housed a family with goats and pigs. The roof of the Art Deco building was crumbling; the government came ...

But at the end of the war, with Nazi Germany in ruins, expert teams from the Red Army seized more than two and a half million art objects, some 12 million books and miles of archives. Among them ...

The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of art were removed from display across Germany.