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-'''Looted art''' has been a consequence of [[looting]] during war, [[natural disaster]] and [[riot]] for centuries. Looting of [[art]], [[archaeology]] and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act, or may be a more organized case of [[unlawful]] or [[unethical]] pillage by the victor of a conflict.+
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-"Looted art" is a term often reduced to refer to artwork [[Nazi plunder|plundered]] by the [[Nazis]] during World War II in Europe. However, the Nazis were neither the first nor the last to loot art on a large scale. The [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] is on record with the following quote:+
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-:"The plunder and looting of art and other treasures was not limited to the Third Reich. ... The Soviet and American armies also participated, the former more thoroughly and systematically, the latter at the level of individuals stealing for personal gain."+
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-''[[The Herald-Times]]'' even claims: "[[Napoleon]] was a model for Hitler in terms of art looting." Bloomberg Radio also makes it clear, that many of the worlds greatest artworks were taken from their rightful owners.+
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-[[Plunder]], [[booty]], [[Cultural appropriation|appropriation]] and [[spoliation]] are related terms that have been used for several hundred years to describe the process of looting. Many references still associate the term looted art with the World War II period, recent legal frameworks and treaties use the term spoliation in connection with the "large number of cultural objects and works of art looted by the Nazis and others during the Second World War and the Holocaust Era from 1933-1945". The term "Trophy art" is used for the cultural objects, which were taken by the Red Army and the Soviet [[Trophy Brigades]] from occupied Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II. It is a translation from the Russian "Трофейное искусство".+
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-Related terms include [[art theft]] (the stealing of valuable artifacts, mostly because of commercial reasons), [[illicit antiquities]] (covertly traded antiquities or artifacts of archaeological interest, found in illegal or unregulated excavations), [[provenance]] (the origin or source of a piece of art), and [[art repatriation]] (the process of returning artworks and antiques to their rightful owners).+
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