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By the time the Trophy Brigades working under the direction of the Arts Committee had finished sweeping the state museums and private collections in the Soviet Occupation zone, they had claimed an estimated 2.5 million artworks and 10 million books and manuscripts.Jan 6, 2020.
At the end of World War II, when Stalin's Red Army entered Berlin, it raided the museums and galleries along the way.
Over 2.5 million items were sent back to the Soviet Union.
In a gesture of friendship with Communist East Germany, the Kremlin returned some of the stolen art to its Communist allies in 1958..
By the time the Trophy Brigades working under the direction of the Arts Committee had finished sweeping the state museums and private collections in the Soviet Occupation zone, they had claimed an estimated 2.5 million artworks and 10 million books and manuscripts.Jan 6, 2020.
Approximately 20% of Europe's art was destroyed during the Nazi plunder.
The monument men, which were of course founded to protect European artwork from both Allied and Axis forces, did sieze over 700,000 pieces of art..
Still Missing: the Continued Restitution of Nazi Looted Art
Though the artworks covered here have been recovered, and some returned to the descendants of their rightful owners, it is worth remembering that over 30,000 pieces of art are still missing..
Degenerate Art
While, as is evident with the Munich art recovery, it wasn't all destroyed and much was in fact sold, it's known that in one bonfire on July 27, 1942 around 4,000 works were incinerated outside the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, including art by Klee, Miro, Picasso, and Dali.Nov 20, 2013.
The Nazis began hastily confiscating more than 20,000 works of modern art in 1937.
At that time, they made no plans for what would happen to the art.
A year later, the Nazis passed a law legalizing the sale of confiscated art.
They planned a large international art auction in Switzerland in June 1939.Feb 15, 2023.
A number of Hitler's paintings were seized by the United States Army (some believed to still be in Germany) at the end of World War II.
They were taken to the United States with other captured materials and are still held by the US government, which has declined to allow them to be exhibited..
Nazism and the acts of Nazi Germany affected many countries
During and after World War II.Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate several groups viewed as subhuman by Nazi ideology was eventually stopped by the combined efforts of the wartime Allies headed by the United Kingdom