Projekt

In Moscow in November 1942, a state special commission was authorized to compile a list of art and cultural objects that could be proffered as equivalents to Russian art treasures that had been lost as a consequence of the German attack. A special committee of the USSR Council of Ministers, composed of art historians and museum specialists, based on the division of labor with a so-named Red Army "Prize Task Force" during the western advance, acquired art objects that would be suitable for compensating for Russian art losses. After the end of the war, the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) "Trophy Administration" took over this task. This trilateral research project is an attempt to analyze the praxis of the looting of cultural goods and reconstruct the history of the transfer of German cultural goods to the Soviet Union using testimonies and documents from project partner country archives. "German art and cultural goods" is understood in its heterogeneity: individual exhibits and collections from private, state and public museums and art galleries; archives, libraries, archaeological and natural science monuments, as well as objects of material culture that are culturally meaningful.

• Prof. Dr. Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast

  Europa-Universität Viadrina
  Frankfurt (Oder)
  Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien
  Frankfurt (Oder)
  

• Dr. Tatiana Timofeeva

  Lomonosov Moscow State University
  Moskau
  Russland
  

• Prof. Dr. Wladimir Sacharow

  Moskau
  Russland
  

• Dr. Dmytro Burim

  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  M.S. Hruschewskyj-Institut für ukrainische
  Archäographie und Quellenkunde
  Abteilung für Studien und Publikationen der
  ausländischen Quellen zur ukrainischen Geschichte
  Kiev
  Ukraine