Art looting, destruction, and protection during World War II : Soviet Union

Scott-Clark, Catherine and Adrian Levy. The amber room: the fate of the world’s greatest lost treasure. New York : Walker & Co., 2004.

Nicholas, Lynn H. The rape of Europa: the fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and Second World War. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Edsel, Robert M. Rescuing da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art: America and her Allies recovered it. Dallas, TX: Laurel Publishing, LLC, 2006.

Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden treasures revealed: Impressionist masterpieces and other important French paintings preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. New York : Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995.

This is the catalog to the 1995 exhibition at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg of Impressionist and Modern paintings taken from German private collections by the Soviets. A similar exhibition entitled "Twice Saved" was mounted at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1995 with paintings taken from German and Eastern European private collections, but no English catalog was published for it. As of 2014, none of the paintings shown in these two exhibitions have been returned to the heirs of the original owners. These works along with other contested objects, including Priam’s Gold from Troy, were nationalized as Russian state property under a 1998 law.

Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. Stolen treasure: the hunt for the world’s lost masterpieces. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.

Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Tracking the Trophy Brigade", in Artnews, Vol. 90, no. 4 (April 1991).