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World War II German troops robbed how much treasure?4000 boxes of cultural relics 10,000 paintings went where?
During World War II, the German army could be said to have swept across Europe, and every time it captured a country, the German army would plunder treasured works of art through various means, and for this reason, Germany set up a special force, and one of their tasks was to plunder the cultural relics of various countries.
After Germany's annexation of Austria, the German army looted 32 boxes of jewelry hidden in Vienna after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire; after the surrender of Poland, it took only about six months, the German army received all the cultural relics of Poland; before the invasion of France, the Germans had already developed a catalog of cultural relics to loot, and they almost emptied the Louvre in France; during the Patriotic War, the Soviet Union **** there are 400 museums were the German Army ransacked ......
According to post-war declassified information, as of July 1944, the German army*** looted 4,174 boxes of cultural relics from Western Europe,*** counting more than 20,000 pieces, of which more than 10,000 paintings of absolute masterpieces. To transport the artifacts back to Germany, the German army*** used more than 130 railroad wagons.
Before their imminent defeat, the German army went to great lengths to hide the looted artifacts, but in the end, with the rapid advance of Soviet and Allied forces, many of the artifacts were simply too late to be transferred, and there was no place to do so. For example, G?ring collected a large number of artifacts, and before the Soviets approached Berlin, he burned some of them and transferred the rest to Feldenstein, and it wasn't long before the Allies drove in, and he commandeered four wagons to transport the artifacts to the small border town.
The most shocking was the artifacts found by U.S. troops in a mine shaft in the German village of Merckx, which was piled high with 7,000 bags full of the stuff, as well as a variety of framed masterpieces of paintings, uncountable amounts of gold and silver.
No one knows exactly how many artifacts the Germans looted throughout World War II. So far, there are still a lot of German looted cultural relics and treasures whereabouts unknown.