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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Compensation Files and Provenance Research: Status and Perspectives of a Multilayered Fact-Finding Process
DESCRIPTION:Provenance research involves fact-finding in many respects. In order to identify Nazi-looted art in collections, objects must be examined, and archival sources located and evaluated so that circumstances of persecution and expropriation can be exposed and the basis for restitution created. Projects for basic research provide important contextual knowledge for the classification of these individual case studies, including the development of source materials, research into actors such as art dealers and collectors, and an examination of the structures of persecution and asset seizure. This research touches on overarching issues in the history of time, economics, social history, Holocaust studies, exile research, and the practice of "compensation" after 1945.
Among the most important sources for provenance research are the so-called "reparation files," or post-war restitution and compensation files. These files are currently of particular relevance due to the central indexing and digital accessibility of all files in the reparation theme portal, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Finance. This would provide historical research with a source material of unprecedented magnitude, thanks to digital humanities tools.
The planned section aims to discuss the possibilities arising from digital indexing for research using the example of provenance research. Using current projects as examples, forms of using the reparation files will be presented and the potential for future expanded access will be discussed: What new methodological approaches can be pursued and what new research questions can be developed? What challenges does fact-finding based on digital tools pose, what gaps can it fill, and what ambivalences can it resolve?
 
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