| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cultural property studies = Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz
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Cultural property studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index. |
| Contents |
They've sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind -- Habent sua fata libelli -- Countdown to surrender -- Protect and respect those symbols -- Of US safekeepers, Soviet trophy commissars and marauding soldiers -- Enjoy the war; the peace is going to be terrible! -- Hope deferred -- Going, going, gone -- Belle of the books -- The professor -- The Countess of Camarillo -- Ardelia -- From the ashes of the Phoenix -- Return of the wounded warrior -- Eyewitness -- Ten years later: proof, proof and more proof -- To err is human, to admit, divine -- The owl of Minerva -- The last, the worst dull spoiler, who was he? |
| Summary |
In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Art and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
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Art treasures in war -- Germany.
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Art treasures in war. |
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Germany. |
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Cultural property -- Germany.
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Cultural property. |
| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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Art.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Popa, Opritsa D. Bibliophiles and bibliothieves. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2003 (DLC) 2003019022 |
| ISBN |
9783110201901 (electronic book) |
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3110201909 (electronic book) |
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9783110177305 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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3110177307 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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3110177307 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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