Returned from Russia : Nazi archival plunder in Western Europe and recent restitution issues
During the Second World War, various Nazi agencies competed for the plunder of occupied Europe's archival heritage. This volume brings together reports by individuals who took part in the negotiations for the return of those twice-plundered archives, among those the archives of the IIAV. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted reveals her story of the seizure and dramatic fate of those records in Nazi and Soviet hands and the post-1991 political battle within Russia over their restitution. In the second half of the volume, the stories of individual countries are told, with the focus on the returned archives of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, together with the Austrian Rothschild archives. Appendices present the legal instruments for the return of these of these 'displaced' twice-captured archives, and identify the present locations of all of those that have recently come home from Russia, some of them long believed lost. Military and security records, documents from early Masonic lodges for the memory of centuries past, new memorials to those who perished in the war and the Holocaust - all are covered in this book. Includes bibliogr. ref., index. XXII, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
- Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, historicus.
- NIOD Bibliotheek
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- ocn907178030
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.
- Cultural property--Repatriation--Soviet Union.
- Archives--Europe, Western--History--20th century.
- Archives--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Restitution--Soviet Union.
- Cultural property--Repatriation--Europe, Western.
- Restitution--Europe, Western.
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