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remains of the murdered Jewish owners. But the officials are not thinking about the rightful owners, and do no research on ownership. They divide the treasure among themselves. They hold art fairs, at which officials and museums can buy. A painting from Göring's collection finds it way to the
Petersberg (the German government's official guesthouse), the Canaletto copy from Hitler's collection hangs on the wall of the German Parlamentarischen Gesellschaft (Parliament Association) in Bonn.
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looting networks included much information about the creation of the Göring
Collection. A special detailed report, entitled "Consolidated Interrogation Report Number 2: the Göring Collection", focused on the art dealing networks supporting Göring's acquisition of looted art. The reports were marked classified and inaccessible for many years until they were declassified and published many years after the war.
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While some artworks have been returned to families of Nazi victims, many of the artwork seized have never been returned to their pre-Nazi owners. In 2015 it was discovered that some of the paintings in the Göring collection that had been recovered by
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In the past twenty years, there have been numerous attempts to inventory Göring's collection of looted art. Berlin's German
Historical Museum published the full inventory of Göring's collection in 2012, but the site no longer appears to function. Jean-Marc Dreyfus published the catalog in book form
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was one of the most powerful Nazis. Convicted of war crimes, he was sentenced to death at
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After the withdrawal of the
American forces, hectic times start in the Staatsgemälde-sammlung (State Paintings Collections), in the Ministry of Culture and in the Munich branch of the Oberfinanzdirektion (Finance Ministry). The Germans own the thousand of art works that not rarely are the only
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