Property Rights in Wartime

This book examines the violation of property rights in the two World Wars and in the interwar period centering on three keywords: sequestration, confiscation and restitution. It was originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Autorentext

Daniela Luigia Caglioti is Professor of Contemporary History in the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici at the Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.

Catherine Brice is Professor of History, Emeritus at the Université Paris-Est Créteil- CHREC, Créteil, France.

Inhalt

Introduction-Property rights in wartime: sequestration, confiscation and restitution in twentieth-century Europe 1. Between occupation, exile and unification: sequestered and 'abandoned' properties in Serbia and Yugoslavia during and after the First World War 2. From protection to liquidation. The case of the Milanese jurists and enemy alien property (1915-1920) 3. Private property or enemy property: how parliament confiscated the property of the stateless of German origin in Belgium (1918-21) 4. Expropriating the dead in Turkey: how the Armenian quarter of zmir became Kültürpark 5. Categorisation. Classification. Confiscation. Dealing with enemy citizens in the Netherlands in the aftermath of World War II (1944-1967) 6. German property and the reconstruction of East Central Europe after 1945: politics, practices and pitfalls of confiscation 7. Neither citizens nor Jews: Jewish property rights after the Holocaust, a tentative survey 8. The 'Return of Beauty'? The politics of restitution of Nazi-looted art in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, 1945-1998