06 February 2023, Brandenburg, Potsdam: The public reading room in the Brandenburg State Archives, photographed at a press event. As part of a research project, around 42,000 files from the Asset Recovery Office of the Berlin-Brandenburg Chief Finance President have been digitized and processed since 2020. The files document the systematic exploitation by the National Socialists of persons persecuted as Jewish or hostile to the law. The results of the project open up the possibility of digitally indexing clues to the locations of looted art and cultural assets. Photo: Bernd Settnik/dpa