Collecting Points

The Collecting Points were established in a number of German cities by the Monuments Men after World War II. Confiscated and looted objects and artwork were gathered in these locations in order to research, catalogue and ascertain their ownership. The objects were then returned to the owners or the country of origin for restitution to the owners.

• A
• Alt Aussee
• Altarpiece
• American Defense, Harvard Group
• Anschluss
• Anti-Semitism
• Arbitration
• Aryan
• Aryanization
• Auction
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Austerlitz
• B
• Bauhaus
• Birkenau
• Blue Shield
• C
• Chartres Cathedral
• Collaborator
• Collecting Points
• Cultural Heritage
• Curator
• D
• Dachau
• Degenerate Art
• Duomo
• E
• ERR
• Ethnocentrism
• Eugenics
• F
• Fresco
• Frieze
• G
• Genocide
• Good Faith Purchaser
• H
• Holocaust
• I
• Impressionism
• In Good Faith
• In Situ
• J
• Jeu de Paume
• K
• Kristallnacht
• L
• Lebensraum
• Linz
• Looting
• M
• M-Aktion
• Mass Media
• Mein Kampf
• Mezuzah
• MFAA
• Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
• Mural
• N
• National Socialist Party
• Nisei Officer
• Nuremberg Laws
• Nuremberg Trials
• P
• Patrimony
• Propaganda
• Provenance
• R
• Race Hygiene
• Renaissance
• Reparations
• Repository
• Restitution
• Roberts Commission
• ROTC
• S
• Scapegoating
• Sfumato
• Shtetl
• Spoliation
• Stereotype
• T
• Theresienstadt
• Treaty of Versailles
• Trophies of War
• Trophy Brigades
• U
• Unjust Enrichment
• W
• World Heritage List