The Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution has finished processing all of the 2,307 applications that it received for in rem restitution of public property.
The Austrian National Library today restituted 2,255 books – which it had acquired unlawfully during the Nazi period and are now considered “heirless” – to the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, in accordance with the provisions of the Art Restitution Act. It …