Appendix 2

The following list is limited narrowly to post-1991 Russian legal instruments relating to cultural valuables of foreign provenance seized and transported to the Soviet Union from Germany and Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, or in the immediate postwar period. Widely known in Russia as the “trophy” valuables, officially those cultural objects (art, books, and archives) are usually referred to in Russia more euphemistically as “cultural valuables displaced [or relocated] to the USSR,” although most frequently translated in a European context as “displaced cultural valuables.” The term “displaced” is used here, and may include some cultural property and archives that came to the USSR during the war itself, as well as those removed from Germany and Eastern Europe by Soviet authorities at the end of or immediately after the war. Many items involved were actually twice captured, or “twice saved,” as the saying goes in Russia, having been first captured by the Nazis, mostly from “enemies of the regime,” and then captured a second time and “safeguarded” by the Soviets

Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Cultural heritage · Cultural property · Economic history · Nazism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Spanish Civil War · Trophy · World War II · Archaeological Research and Protection · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts

• Restitution as Diagnosis

  Konstantin Akinsha•New German Critique•2017

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• The Spoils of War. World War II and Its Aftermath

  Marion F Deshmukh, Marion Deshmukh et al.•German Studies Review•1999

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