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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2001 15(2):191-244; doi:10.1093/hgs/15.2.191
© 2001 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Twice Plundered or "Twice Saved"? Identifying Russia's "Trophy" Archives and the Loot of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted

Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

A dramatic element in Russia's current international relations centers on the restitution of archives that the Nazis plundered throughout Europe during World War II and that fell into Soviet hands at the end of the war. The following Investigation unravels many strands in this remarkable story. During the war the Reich Security Main Office and other German agencies assigned various parts of collections to a number of offices in Berlin and elsewhere, evacuating components to hideaways in Silesia and the Sudetenland as Allied bombing raids grew more destructive. The Stalinist inheritors of these troves also assigned collections and parts of collections to a variety of agencies and closed archives. Today specialists are challenged to associate components sundered and shuffled over decades, complicating calls by European countries for Russia to restitute these national records—calls that have thus far met with only partial success.


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