[Cultural treasures that the Nazis looted from the USSR (PHOTOS)] This post was originally published on this site Hitler and other leading Nazis considered themselves to be art connoisseurs, and wanted to create a gigantic museum with masterpieces taken from all over the world, including books and manuscripts, musical instruments and sheet music, as well as paintings and sculpture, and ancient artifacts. Special SS detachments of looters were tasked with systematically confiscating cultural treasures and taking them to Germany. During the war over 400 Soviet museums sustained losses, and 115 million printed works from libraries were destroyed. The 18 volumes...
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