Where Have All the Volumes Gone? A Contribution to the Discussion of 'Captured Cultural Property' and 'Trophy Commissions.'

During and after World War II, "trophy commissions" organized the systematic removal of German library holdings and art to Soviet libraries, archives, and museums. Discusses the organized transfer of cultural property, motives for transfer, German property in Russia today, and suggests that Germans and Russians should aid each other in locating and returning missing property. (PEN)