America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures, Michael J. Kurtz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 288 pp., 75.00
“The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world,” writes Michael Kurtz in his study of America's role in the return of looted cultural treasures. Kurtz published a book on the same topic in 1985 and has now expanded...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 142-144 |
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| Summary: | “The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world,” writes Michael Kurtz in his study of America's role in the return of looted cultural treasures. Kurtz published a book on the same topic in 1985 and has now expanded and updated his research and findings, incorporating the newest research. There is good reason for the new edition, as he points out. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the opening of the archives of Eastern Europe, demands by survivors and their heirs for restitution, and a wider recognition of the sheer extent of the looting, a heightened awareness and renewed interest have emerged. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn016 |