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    <![CDATA[The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War]]>
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    <![CDATA[Every few months you'll read a newspaper story of the discovery of some long-lost art treasure hidden away in a German basement or a Russian attic: a Cranach, a Holbein, even, not long ago, a da Vinci. Such treasures ended up far from the museums and churches in which they once hung, taken as war loot by Allied and Axis soldiers alike. Thousands of important pieces have never been recovered. Lynn Nicholas offers an astonishingly good account of the wholesale ravaging of European art during World War II, of how teams of international experts have worked to recover lost masterpieces in the war's aftermath and of how governments &quot;are still negotiating the restitution of objects held by their respective nations.&quot;  ]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Lynn H. Nicholas]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[My one complaint about this book proved to be a huge distraction.  The author assumes that her readers know the biographies and intracacies of position of all of the players (and they are many) in this incredibly complex, interwoven history.  In order to fully comprehend the course of action, one mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31658947">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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