Prosecutor General informed on how work to identify and return to Belarus cultural values taken out by Nazis is progressing
During his recent meeting with students and lecturers of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio-electronics, Prosecutor General Andrei Shved reported on the work being done to identify and return to the country cultural values that were taken out by Nazis, the Prosecutor General's Office reports
Mr. Shved said that, on June 22nd, 1941, not only the Wehrmacht soldiers crossed the border of the Soviet Union, but also punitive units, which included representatives of a number of other nationalities.
Speaking about the work on the identification and return to the country of cultural values exported from the BSSR, as well as the compensation for a damage caused during the war, the Prosecutor General informed that 8,000+ articles of significant artistic value taken out by Nazis have been identified; their fate is still unknown.
