The German Lost Art Foundation runs two databases that are continuously updated and maintained. Both are important tools for scholars and for provenance research as a whole, but they are also intended for use by those with political responsibility, members of the art trade and the interested public. The aim is to enable people to make use of data and research findings, document the seizure of cultural property and collections as a result of persecution and not least create a basis for the return of cultural property to those from whom they were once taken.