A findings paragraph says the claims are allowed whatever the victim's nationality
What the document says“This Act also is intended to allow claims in accordance with the procedures under this Act for the recovery of artwork or other property lost during the covered period because, or as a result, of Nazi persecution, including by a covered government (as defined in section 1605(h)(3)(B) of title 28, United States Code) or an agent or associate of a covered government, regardless of the nationality or citizenship of the alleged victim”
A new paragraph (9) inserted into section 2 of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 1621 note). It states that the 2016 Act is also intended to allow claims for artwork or other property lost during the covered period because of Nazi persecution, including loss caused by a covered government as defined in section 1605(h)(3)(B) of title 28, United States Code, or by an agent or associate of one, whatever the nationality or citizenship of the alleged victim. The paragraph closes by saying this holds notwithstanding the domestic takings rule under Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U.S. 169 (2021). This law does not state what that decision held.
What the document actually says“This Act also is intended to allow claims in accordance with the procedures under this Act for the recovery of artwork or other property lost during the covered period because, or as a result, of Nazi persecution, including by a covered government (as defined in section 1605(h)(3)(B) of title 28, United States Code) or an agent or associate of a covered government, regardless of the nationality or citizenship of the alleged victim”
This law also lets people ask for art lost to Nazi harm. It does not matter what country the owner was from.
The old law had a gap. A court said a country taking from its own people was not covered. Congress says here that those claims count too.
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