Send us a textTo learn more, please visit the websites for the Max Stern Restitution Project, the HEAR Act, the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Zurückgeben Foundation and Almost Lost: the Heinemann Legacy (Before, During, and After the Holocaust).Show Notes:1:30 Max Stern Art Restitution Project 2:30 Dr. Max Stern5:00 Stern’s restitution efforts8:00 Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition9:50 Sales under duress10:15 Auctions at cut-rate prices as an encouragement to the German people13:15 Rug in the office of Angela Merkel 14:20 Russian exhibition of looted German objects16:00 German Lost Art Foundation 17:00 Mosse Art Research Initiative - partly funded by German Lost Art Foundation18:10 Thieves able to give good title under German law20:40 Hilde Schramm - German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens, daughter of German architect/Nazi Party official Albert Speer21:20 The Zurückgeben Foundation - organization started by Schramm21:45 City of Lüneburg, Germany honored Jewish Heinemann family whose objects were looted 22:45 Heinemann family donated looted objects back to the Lüneburg Museum23:20 Holocaust Expropriation Art Recovery (HEAR) Act 24:40 Second Circuit decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art25:00 Doctrine of Laches27:40 New focus of research on difficulty of being honest about genocide restitution28:30 Theft of works from Ukrainian museums33:20 Dehumanization as part of genocide34:00 Denial of wrongs committed in genocide35:00 Russia’s prior theft of Ukrainian cultural heritage35:20 World’s tolerance / denial of genocide36:20 Need for empathy36:30 What is a bystander36:50 Spain’s policy as an allegedly neutral party during WWII38:00 Concept of justice38:45 Andrew Smith - The Met’s reasoning 40:45 British Museum’s policy that Elgin Marbles are part of UK heritage42:40 HEAR Act’s legislative intent ignored by the Court43:45 Picasso’s The Actor was a gift to the Met44:20 Vienna case of painting looted from Alma Mahler (Edvard Munch's "Summer Night at the Beach") restituted in 2001 by Belvedere Museum to Mahler's granddaughter, Marina46:30 Alan Robertshaw - neutral area that serviced U boats47:20 Alan Robertshaw - 1995 abolishment of UK’s market overt - English legal concept from mediaeval times that allowed subsequent ownership of stolen goodsPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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