Activities of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg taskforce in Lithuania: the looting and destruction of Jewish cultural property (1941-1944)
ENOne of the most important Nazi organizations tasked with orchestrating the registration, confiscation, and removal of Jewish cultural property from the occupied countries to the Third Reich was the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg; ERR) headed by Alfred Rosenberg. A branch of this taskforce operated in Lithuania during the Nazi occupation as well. After the end of World War II, the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition began to search for and repatriate cultural property that had been removed, including Jewish cultural property, and return it to its rightful owners. In 1960, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany paid many countries compensation for the loss of works of art, but the Baltic States, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union by then, were not included. [p. 413].
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