All was not well after the murder was over, Germany was in ruins and the Allies tried to regulate a nation that had been out of control for years and to restore a humane, somehow just order.
This also included dealing with the works of art stolen by the Nazi grandees or on their behalf.
Johannes Gramlich, research assistant at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, examined how the confiscated works of institutions and persons of the National Socialist regime were dealt with after the end of the war.