Title: The spoils of war
Description: 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.
Subjects: Destruction and pillage, Cultural property, World War, 1939-1945, Protection (International law), World war, 1939-1945, confiscations and contributions, Cultural property, protection, Congresses