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America and the Return of Nazi Contraband - The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures (Hardcover)
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America and the Return of Nazi Contraband - The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures (Hardcover)
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The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation
of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world. In the
ruins of the Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings,
books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture, from the mediocre to
the priceless, hidden in thousands of secret hideaways. This 2006
book tells the story of how the American military government in
Germany, spearheaded by a few dozen dedicated Monuments, Fine Arts
and Archives officers and enlisted men, coped with restoring
Europe's cultural heritage. Caught up in often bitter diplomatic
wrangling during and after the war, the American restitution effort
struggled to uncover what the Nazis had hidden and to equitably
return all that was found. Based on the pioneering study of
cultural restitution first published in 1985, America and the
Return of Nazi Contraband presents insights into how the American
government and Jewish organizations managed the painfully difficult
problem of heirless Jewish cultural property.
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