Great Treasure Stories of World War II - Hardcover

Alford, Kenneth D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1882810864 ISBN 13: 9781882810864

Verlag: Savas Woodbury Publishers,U.S., 2000

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Book by Alford Kenneth D

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World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history, but the tragedy did not end on the battlefields. During the war, Germany--and, later, the Allies--plundered Europe's historic treasures. Between 1939 and 1945, German armed forces roamed from Dunkirk to Stalingrad, looting gold, silver, currency, paintings and other works of art, coins, religious artifacts, and millions of books and other documents. The value of these items, many of which were irreplaceable, is estimated in the billions of dollars. The artwork alone, looted under Hitler's direction, exceeded the combined collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre. As the war wound to its conclusion in 1945, occupying forces continued the looting. The story of these celebrated works of art and other vanished treasures--and the mystery of where they went--is a remarkable tale of greed, fraud, deceit, and treachery, Kenneth Alford's Nazi Plunder is the latest word on this fascinating subject.

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This heavily illustrated account tells the story of the gold, jewels, and art treasures stolen by the Nazis and how they were recovered at the end of the war.

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• Verlag: Savas Woodbury Publishers,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1882810864
• ISBN 13: 9781882810864
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256