Ms Junz looks at the wealth of those citizens she can identify as Jewish on the basis of contemporary documents and is able to make informed estimates as to how that wealth was held: in commercial enterprises or in financial assets, a significant part of which was foreign (one of the surprises is how frequently individuals in the 1930s owned foreign securities).

ECONOMIST: Victims of Nazism

The first exhibition of the film and the documents associated with his Lima piece are part of the inaugural show of the new Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, a striking new building designed by Zaha Hadid.

ECONOMIST: The absurdist art of a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist

Documents disclosed by the opening of Soviet archives and though America's freedom of information legislation mean that contemporary history is continually being revised.

ECONOMIST: C.V. Wedgwood