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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2025
For centuries, art has been one of the spoils of war, often taken by the victor--and often destroyed in combat. What rules govern how art is treated in and after times of armed conflict? This chapter considers practical and ethical challenges of protecting art and antiquities in times of war and how attitudes toward protection of cultural property have evolved, leading to the Hague Convention of 1954; how art has been treated as part of war reparations; legal and ethical issues applicable to the recovery of art in the aftermath of World War II, particularly in light of the Holocaust and the Third Reich’s historically unprecedented, large-scale dispossession of art; and international efforts to coordinate the return of art wrongfully taken in the years prior to and during World War II
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