The first in-depth study of the restoration and conservation field in the National Socialist era has revealed a new perspective on the physical manipulation of cultural property under the regime. Questions about the use and abuse of conservation and restoration have unearthed previously concealed connections between the regime and cultural property. These links were bypassed by previous scholarship—scholarship that has largely focused on charting the looting of covetable and high-status items. Past scholarship has also left untouched the role of conservation and restoration in propaganda, revanchism, and the relationship between population and regime.