National Socialist provenance research at the Vienna University Libraries

At the beginning of the 21st century a newly found interest in coming to terms with the history of goods stolen by the Nazis emerged. The Viennese University Library was the first university library in Austria to begin systematically looking for stolen books that had found their way to its shelves and stacks during the Nazi era and afterwards. Since then hundreds of thousands of books have been investigated, expansive research has been conducted and many books have been returned to heirs and legal successors. As a service to further research and for the history books the results have been made public.