TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,Elizabeth
TI  - The spoils of war: World War II and its aftermath : the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property 
SN  - 9780810944695
U1  - 940.531 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - H.N. Abrams in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
KW  - Destruction and Pillage
KW  - Cultural Property
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Protection (International Law)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945, Confiscations and Contributions
KW  - Cultural Property, Protection
KW  - Congresses
N2  - 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
ER  -