1st Edition
Property Rights in Wartime Sequestration, Confiscation and Restitution in Twentieth-Century Europe
Introduction—Property rights in wartime: sequestration, confiscation and restitution in twentieth-century Europe
Daniela Luigia Caglioti and Catherine Brice
1. Between occupation, exile and unification: sequestered and ‘abandoned’ properties in Serbia and Yugoslavia during and after the First World War
Dmitar Tasić
2. From protection to liquidation. The case of the Milanese jurists and enemy alien property (1915–1920)
Cristiano La Lumia
3. Private property or enemy property: how parliament confiscated the property of the stateless of German origin in Belgium (1918–21)
Frank Caestecker
4. Expropriating the dead in Turkey: how the Armenian quarter of İzmir became Kültürpark
Ellinor Morack
5. Categorisation. Classification. Confiscation. Dealing with enemy citizens in the Netherlands in the aftermath of World War II (1944-1967)
Marieke Oprel
6. German property and the reconstruction of East Central Europe after 1945: politics, practices and pitfalls of confiscation
Kornelia Kończal
7. Neither citizens nor Jews: Jewish property rights after the Holocaust, a tentative survey
Ilaria Pavan
8. The ‘Return of Beauty’? The politics of restitution of Nazi-looted art in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, 1945-1998
Bianca Gaudenzi
Biography
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.
