User:MyMoloboaccount/Sandbox/Kurt Forstreuter

Kurt Forstreuter was a Nazi party member and a German historian. He was involved with war crime in German occupied Poland during the war. He worked together with SS in plundering of Polish archives. During Cold War he defended his actions. He was preparing for plunder of Polish archives in 1939 before the war started, and under the cover of scholarly visits Polish collections were visited by delegations of Nazi researches who inspected them. One of the most valuable items Forstreuter helped to steal from Poland was Plock Bible-an illustrated bible manuscript from XII century. The three-member commission in which Forstrueter was involved had overseen the theft from Plock theologicl library 50,000 volumes, including 100 coming from XII and XIII century