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...Julia Voss The article discusses the development of restitution politics after the Gurlitt case. First, it summarizes the events that led to Cornelius Gurlitt's will to give his collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern in May 2014. Second, it compares the handling of the Gurlitt case to previous...

...Konstantin Akinsha During World War II the Soviet Union did not join the Allied restitution effort. Instead, more than two and a half million objects (not counting millions of books) were transported to the Soviet Union from its zone of occupation in Germany and from other European countries...

...Lawrence M. Kaye This article examines the problems associated with the restitution of Nazi-looted art in the United States by focusing on some of the leading cases. Although some legal battles have been won by the heirs of Holocaust victims and others are ongoing, many have been unsuccessful...

...Jonathan Petropoulos Recent books and film treatments of the Allies' restitution efforts have tended toward the triumphalist. The recovery, safeguarding, and return of looted works has become a story of good overcoming evil. This article seeks to complicate that narrative. The Monuments officers...

.... It also raises a host of legal and ethical questions about restitution and what one might call belated transitional justice for stolen art and its former private or public owners. The Gurlitt story was so toxic that it cast glaring light on the failures of German Vergangenheits­ aufarbeitung...

... of a response to a question posed in Hölderlin’s elegy “Bread and Wine” (1801): “What is the purpose of poets in destitute times?” 128 Sebald cites this same poem in hidden form in his prose fiction, and it is this very question that he addresses in “An Attempt at Restitution,” delivered the year Austerlitz...

... website clearly delineates the motivations and aims of the project: https://www.no-humboldt21.de/resolution/english/ (accessed September 20, 2022). It might be added that Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy’s clarifying response to the restitution of cultural artifacts from countries formerly under...

... but to show me how certain theoretical positions could devolve into such moralizing. Andy coined the phrase “the moral capital of suffering,” a Nietzschean recognition of the strategies of power that corrupt liberation movements; infect historical claims to restitution by victims of anti-Semitism...

..., crime, and repression in the professional and biographical journey of Hildebrand Gurlitt. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 “degenerate art” looted art Hitler's art dealer World War II restitution References Bargatzky Walter . 1965 (1945) . “Bericht über die Wegnahme...

... to the Princes Czartoryski Museum. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Polish claim Gołuchów makata restitution Stephan Komornicki looted art References “Book of Deposits of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, established October 20, 1924.” 1924 –. Archives of the Princes Czartoryski...

...—the Greek empeiria, the Latin experientia, from which the word expe- rience is derived. The “restitution of experience against its empiricist deforma- tion,” demanded in the final lines of “Scientific Experiences,” required the development of a method that could confront such deformation directly.4...

... of rhetorical interactions. The intermittence of consciousness—constituting itself, as Edmund Husserl had argued, but also continually restituting itself and correcting its interruptions—is for Weatherby structurally comparable to the intermittence between data and instructions in the otherwise unified...

... and thought pose, as an aspect of experience that an uncritical science has lost the ability to articulate and analyze. In 1968 Adorno bequeathed to his German students and American readers “a kind of restitution of experience against its empirical treatment” in the form of a theoretical program. Even...

... that the United States and the USSR engaged in as Germany became a front line in the great postwar geopolitical contest, and enmeshed also in the related, fraught question of negotiations between Konrad Adenauer’s West Germany and David Ben-Gurion’s Israel around the issue of restitution payments...

... in a post-Wende restitution case, the claimants—the descendants of the Nazi architect couple—won the legal battle, and the house was returned 29. On Fritz and John Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck’s father, see Wolfgang Emmerich, Kleine Litera- turgeschichte der DDR (Cologne: Kiepenheuer, 1997), 99, 313–14...

...” state. Yet lam- entation vanishes in the messianic world, in which humanity has been redeemed and language restored (Tb, 2:215).65 The restitution of intact language is, according to C. J. Thornhill, also the quintessence of Benjamin’s notion of redemption.66 Redemption is understood...

... .” In A Heavy Legacy and Wiedergutmachung : Compensation and Restitution in Austria; The Final Balance of the Schüssel Government , edited by Karner Stefan and Iber Walter M. , translated by Binder Otmar , 161 – 200 . Innsbruck : Studienverlag , 2019 . Larndorfer Peter . “ Das...

... to the lost property, revealing the potential of interior photos taken shortly before emigration to serve as legal evidence for restitution claims that typically cannot produce such material testimony. 74 While we cannot know whether the photos were taken with a thought to a future claim, they suggest...

... criminals, initiated restitution and became a solid supporter of Israel, while the East German regime slavishly followed Mos- cow’s lead in spouting anti-Semitism and embracing anti-Israel policies. More determined and efficient than the FRG in purging Nazis from public life, the official GDR mostly...

... Dannemann that for Lukács “the lost paradise of the past may function as a contrast medium; nevertheless, the vision of a simple restitution is not being considered.”49 The “political” reading of Arato and Breines that I examined in the third section also leads to shortcomings. Even if one cannot...