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Bibliography

This bibliography of books and reports provides a comprehensive overview of World War II era provenance history and related issues.

Hector Feliciano. The Lost Museum. Basic Books, New York, 1997.

Michael J. Kurtz. Nazi Contraband: American Policy on the Return of European Cultural Treasures, 1945-1955. Garland, New York, 1985.

Sophie Lillie. Was Einmal War: Handbuch der einteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Czernin, Vienna, 2003.

Lynn H. Nicholas. The Rape of Europa. Knopf, New York, 1994.

Jonathan Petropoulos. Art as Politics in the Third Reich. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2000.

Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha, and Amy L. Walsh. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research. American Association of Museums, Washington, DC, 2001.

Helen J. Wechsler, Teri Coate-Saal, and John Lukavic, compilers. Museum Policy and Procedures for Nazi-Era Issues, American Association of Museums, 2001, http://www.aam-us.org.

Report of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) Task Force on the Spoliation of Art during the Nazi/World War II Era (1933-1945), Washington, DC, June 1998.

Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era. American Association of Museums, November 1999, amended April 2001.

Plunder and Restitution: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims' Assets: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, Washington, DC, 2000.

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