"The City of Vienna has returned 5,880 works of
art that were stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs,
according to Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, city councillor of cultural affairs. Since 1999 the origins of a total of 70,000
pieces in the city’s collections – stolen between 1938 and 1945 – have been
researched.
This resulted in the restitution of 3,025 objects
from the Wien Museum and 2,855 books from the Vienna City Library at the
Rathaus. In 2011, the City changed the time spectrum for works of art eligible
for restitution, meaning that those purchased from Germany by the Wien Museum
between 1933 and 1938 will be investigated in the next step of the process."

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