| Items Reported As stolen or forced purchases during the Nazi Period: 1933-1945 |
| These are the items with photos, which are claimed to have been "looted" by the Nazis in Germany from 1933, and throughout Europe to 1945. Some claims were simple thefts, others were of forced sales at reduced prices: sometimes the reduced prices were the result of nothing more than the consequences of a worldwide Depression, at other times they were reduced at the point of a gun. More items can probably be identified through a combination of descriptions and inventory numbers, but we have chosen to only list items with photographs available to us. |
| Museums in Europe have declared a large number of items known to have been seized by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg or ERR (see stamp below), but that remain unclaimed by the heirs of the original owners. We are posting photos of these in the hope that someone recognises them. Found Nazi Loot |
| Far more items are still missing, and are being sought by museums and the heirs of the original owners. Some of these have photographs to accompany claims, and these are listed here: Greek and Roman Bronze figurines, plus some copper artifacts A cabinet of assorted Greek and Persian ceramics, Roman glass & Egyptian Alabaster vessels A variety of Egyptian antiquities including canopic jars, sculptures etc Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Syrian glass The 4th century glass Cologne Chalice Early Corinthian Greek Pottery Black Figure Greek Pottery Greek Pottery Cups, mostly Red Figure Red Figure Greek Pottery including a rhyton by Brygos Painter Greek white ground pottery, lekythoi Arretine Ware bowls and fragments A Roman fresco Greek and Roman Stone Sculptures Greek and Roman terracotta figurine and sculptures A Byzantine mounted solidus of Jovian Roman, Frankish and later fibulae, buckle Roman and later pins |
