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Court Denies Heirs' Claims Over Stolen WWII Art
Posted on 3 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (AP) A federal appeals court has dismissed claims against the German government by heirs of an art dealer whose collection was seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. Fred Westfield, a retired Nashville professor... Read More

Austrian Jews Say They Have Sued Israeli Archive
Posted on 24 May 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

VIENNA - (AP) Austria's Jewish community says it's taking an Israeli archive to court to force it to return a trove of historical documents. President Ariel Muzicant says the Vienna-based group filed a lawsuit in an Israeli court about three weeks... Read More

U.S. Investors Sue, Seeking Pay For Pre-WWII German Bonds
Posted on 7 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MIAMI - (AP) More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine... Read More

Lawsuit Filed Over $100 Million Art Collection Held By Hungary Since The Holocaust
Posted on 28 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Heirs to the Herzog Collection, the largest private art collection in Hungary before World War II, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia July 27 to seek the return of artworks they say have been illegally... Read More