Museum
Militärhistorisches Museum der
Bundeswehr (German Federal Army Museum of Military History)
Successor of the Heeresmuseum Dresden (closed 1945/6).
Research into Nazi-confiscated cultural
property in the museum's collection
Research undertaken
by the museum indicates that there is no looted cultural property in its present
collection. The museum states however that they do not know if such objects were
allotted to the museum between 1933-45 and whether they were not then stored in
safer places in Bohemia during the war. There are rumours that a Czech castle was
used to store museum property between 1939-45 but the information is very scanty.
No documents survive to clarify this. There is also the possibility that
museum property was taken away by the Soviet Army in 1945. Again there are no
documents that could illuminate this.
Research into cultural property missing from
the museum
Part of the collection of the Heeresmuseum
Dresden was destroyed and/or looted during the Second World War. The museum has
compiled lists of items removed by the Soviet Army in 1945-6, including military
decorations, seals and stamps of the Saxon Army, paintings and prints, as well
as historical arms, uniforms and insignia. A small part of the collection was
returned between 1955 and 1959, but went to other collections in Dresden and
East Berlin due to the closure of the Heeresmuseum in 1945-6. Some items are
thought to be located at the St. Petersburg Museum of Artillery as well as in
other museums of the former Soviet Union.
Contact
Details
Militärhistorisches Museum der
Bundeswehr
Olbrichtplatz 2
01099 Dresden
Tel: +49 (0) 823 2800
Fax:
+49 (0) 823 2805
Email: MilHistMuseumBwEingang@bundeswehr.org
http://www.milhistmuseum.de/
Source
Central Registry
Archives, Correspondence, 3 December 2002
<http://www.milhistmuseum.de/>, accessed 17 December 2002