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The Bibliographic Database of German Publication on Russia, the Soviet Union and its Successor States (RussGus) contains about 170.000 records from 1974 to 2003 and collects publications of different document types: books, dissertations and other university publications, articles from journals and newspapers including reviews, maps etc. The lists of personal and geographical subjects are located here and here.
| ID | bstz1388 |
| Title | An Amber Light on Wartime Loot |
| Published | The New York Times, vom 19.07.1997, S. 18 |
| Form | newspaper article |
| Soundex | A0617; L5420; W0726 |
| Classification | Über die 1996/1997 aufgetauchten Fragmente des Bernsteinzimmers und ihre Rückgabe |
| Abstract | Fifty years on, the fate of uprooted and missing works of art still embitters belligerents in World War II. In May, President Boris Yeltsin courageously vetoed a new Russian law that would allow the country to keep "trophy art" seized from Nazi Germany. The Russian Parliament overrode his veto in June, but Mr. Yeltsin has vowed to challenge the law in the Constitutional Court. Nationalists and Communists contend that the art is merely compensatiom for the enormous losses of Russian cultural treasures, such as the renowned Amber Room, taken from a Czarist palace by German looters, its postwar whereabouts unknown. Uncannily, in the midst of the argument, two items apparently belonging to the Amber Room - an 18th-century stone mosaic and a lacquered wooden chest surfaced in Germany, the first break in this case. Germany now has a chance to reciprocate President Yeltsin's veto by pressing the search, and returning any Amber Room relics. |
| Note | aus: Internationale Bibliographie über das Bernsteinzimmer. Международная библиография публикаций о Янтарной комнате. International Bibliography of Publications about the Amber Room. Hrsg. Peter Bruhn. Berlin 2003: Berichtsjahr 1997, Nr. 1388, s. RussGus-BernStZ |
| PURL | Citation link |
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