Launched on April 10, the Lost Art Internet Database is a collaborative project of the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("Lander"). The site "registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism." At the site users can currently conduct simple or advanced...

While investigations into secret cash donations to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), actually began in 1995, only recently has the scandal come into public light. In November, the German parliament voted unanimously to open a full-scale investigation into the campaign funding scandal. A few weeks later, on December 16, Kohl admitted that he...