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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: America and the Return of Nazi Contraband
• Subtitle: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures
• Author: Michael J. Kurtz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 290
• EAN: 9780521849821
• ISBN: 0521849829
• ID: 02046962
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 521 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. March 2006

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