What should be Returned?

In our dealings with a historically burdened past, injustice seems to attach not only to history as such, but also to very concrete objects. If they were looted, extorted from the victims or even lost, it is common sense today, that they have to be returned to their original owners even many decades after their loss. Sophie Schönberger, an expert in art and cultural law, explains the parameters, difficulties, but also opportunities that characterise this process, using three examples shaping current debates in Germany in different ways: the restitution of Nazi looted property, the handling of colonial objects and, finally, the compensation claims of the Hohenzollern family.