It assembled participants from a 1995 New York symposium, The Spoils of War—World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, along with others, and built on the Nazi Gold conference which had been held in London in December 1997.
Den samlade bland annat deltagare från det 1995 hållna symposiet "The Spoils of War—World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property" i New York och byggde vidare på en konferens om naziguld, som hållits i London i december 1997.