A tragic fate: law and ethics in the battle over Nazi-looted art

Part one. Art and culture in occupied Europe

From there to here : legislated plunder in the Third Reich and the Allied response

Part two. The new era

The Washington Conference and its ethical parallels

Portrait of Wally and the politics of seizure

A new door opens : Maria Altmann and the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Landscape with smokestacks and early trends

The Max Stern estate

Part three. Out of time?

Bakalar and the defense of laches

California legislative amendments and the legacy of Jacques Goudstikker

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oskar Reichel, and provenance research

Prescriptive law in Louisiana

The Nathan heirs, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art

The knives come out

Part four. Back and forth

Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Léone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma

Legally present : a jurisdictional hook

The Pissarro of Lily Cassirer

Hungary and the Herzog Collection

Commercial activity or sovereign act?

Part five. The worst system in the world but all the rest

Progress or broken promises? : restitution claims procedures among the signatories to the Washington Conference principles

A tragic fate : conclusions and possibilities

Glossary of names, terms and concepts.