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    Nazi plunder (German: Raubkunst) was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries...
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  • about Nazi gold (German: Raubgold, "stolen gold") concerns how much of it Nazi Germany transferred to overseas banks during World War II. The Nazis looted...
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    some 12 million pigs and 13 million sheep were seized by Nazi forces. The value of this plunder is estimated at 4 billion Reichsmarks. This relatively low...
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    World War II plunder of Poland The looting of Polish cultural artifacts and industrial infrastructure during World War II was carried out by Nazi Germany and...
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    considered necessary for the "securing" of German national interests. Nazi plunder included private and public art collections, artefacts, precious metals...
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    pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt] , lit. 'defence force') were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine...
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    compared to the Nazi plunder carried out by Nazi Germany and has been called "the single biggest collective art heist since the Nazis pillaged Europe...
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    German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied...
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    (2008). "Book Review: Götz Aly: Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State". Genocide Studies and Prevention. 3 (2): 267–268...
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    of international companies have been accused of having collaborated with Nazi Germany before their home countries' entry into World War II, though it has...
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    The Holocaust (redirect from Nazi Holocaust)
    the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews...
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  • plunder, appropriation of other people's wealth through public laws Nazi plunder, art theft and other items stolen during World War II as part of the...
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    powers but when the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September, Nazi Germany was prepared and quickly intervened. German troops seized control...
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    litigation for years by Bondi's heirs, who claimed that the painting was Nazi plunder and should have been returned to them. In July 2010, the Leopold Museum...
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    During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...
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    The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (German: Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented...
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    The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the...
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  • Looted art Monuments Men — Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program Nazi plunder Gurlitt Collection, around 1500 works amassed by Hildebrand Gurlitt "FBI...
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    there was no repudiation of Nazism, the Nazi Party was not banned, leading Nazis were not detained, and the symbols of Nazism remained in place. Because...
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    European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945...
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    The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to...
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    experts from around the world. The Rape of Europa, a documentary about the Nazi plunder, also included material about Altmann. Her life story and battle to reclaim...
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    Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard...
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    September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning...
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  • artworks Lost film Lost literary work Lost television broadcast Nazi gold Nazi plunder McCullough, Helen Craig (1988). The Tale of the Heike. Stanford:...
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    the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Unlike occupied Japan, Nazi Germany was stripped of its sovereignty and former state: after Germany formally...
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    progressed, the Nazi party elite ordered the confiscation of cultural property throughout various European countries. In the Soviet Union, Nazi plunder of cultural...
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    lest Veronese's painting about the Marriage at Cana become part of the Nazi plunder collected during the Second World War. In the early 21st century, on...
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    The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany (under Adolf Hitler) ordered, organized, and condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in...
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  • hundreds of Serbian and Montenegrin villages, killed many people, and plundered the Kosovo and neighboring regions. The three Baltic republics of Estonia...
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