The spoils of war : World War II and its aftermath : the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property / Elizabeth Simpson.

By:

Simpson, Elizabeth

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1997Description: 336 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780810944695
0810944693

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DDC classification:

940.531 23

Summary: Explores the ongoing debate over the vast amounts of cultural property displaced as a result of World War II. Not only paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, but also archaeological artefacts, rare books and manuscripts, musical instruments and scores, religious objects and memorabilia of every description were seized by the Nazis, taken by individuals, or removed to the USSR by the Soviet army by the end of the war.

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Explores the ongoing debate over the vast amounts of cultural property displaced as a result of World War II. Not only paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, but also archaeological artefacts, rare books and manuscripts, musical instruments and scores, religious objects and memorabilia of every description were seized by the Nazis, taken by individuals, or removed to the USSR by the Soviet army by the end of the war.

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