Eudaemon says:

This goes to show that, during World War II, the Allies weren’t altogether innocent of plundering, dirty tricks, even the murder of innocent civilians and soldiers who had surrendered (the Dresden bombings, and the Katyn Forest Massacre, for instance.) My father is a veteran of that war, and he has told me how, when he was in service, some American soldiers would gleefully brag about gunning down German farmers, who were just minding their own business out in the hayfields.

Anyway…when the Allies took over Adolf Hitler’s house, the Berghof, in the Alps, his monogrammed china, rare book and recorded opera collections (he loved Wagner), all mysteriously disappeared. They are no doubt in some “private American collection”, and the victor or his family are slavering over the spoils more than sixty years later.

Interesting.

Adam says:

Of course, the Germans were known for it, and it really was rampant. It was actually policy. I can see why the Russians are so hesitant to return what they are thought to have though. That mentality can be summed up in two words: Amber Room.