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Lynn Nicholas
Abduction of Europe. The fate of European cultural values during the years of Nazism

Publisher: Logos, 2001
Jacket, 640 pages
ISBN 5-94010-068-6
Circulation: 3000 copies.
Format: 60x90/16
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The Second World War was unprecedented in the history not only in scale fighting, casualties and destruction. Equally unprecedented, cruel, murderous and cynical acquired surrounding the war process of moving cultural property. The looting, confiscation, Nazi cleansing, sale of works of art and historical artefacts that belonged to Holocaust victims, Nazi Germany combined with a systematic looting of museums, national and private cultural treasures of the occupied countries.
In his book on the vast factual material submitted to the fate of Europe's cultural heritage during the war years, describes the activities set up in Germany's military and bureaucratic machine for robbing people and culture that highlights a book by Lynn Nicholas, the author managed to not only describe the events of that time, but also penetrate into the the inner world of people involved in them - both those who encroach on another's cultural heritage, and many artists, curators and connoisseurs of art who joined the invaders in an unequal dramatic confrontation for the sake of the future of European culture. This has made the "Rape of Europe" in an intelligent bestseller, made the work of Lynn Nicholas, a handbook for the few devotees who dedicated themselves to the difficult problems of restitution of cultural property.

For historians, culture experts, art historians, all interested in history and art.