What happened to the stolen art during ww2?
What happened to the stolen art during ww2? Confiscated artworks were often saved for private Nazi and German collections, while some pieces were sold to buyers through neutral countries like Switzerland to raise capital for purchasing additional art pieces and to purchase materials for the Nazi war machine.
What happened to many art pieces during World War 2?
Disposal of Confiscated Art and Pieces Still Lost The Nazis began hastily confiscating more than 20,000 works of modern art in 1937. At that time, they made no plans for what would happen to the art. A year later, the Nazis passed a law legalizing the sale of confiscated art.