After Soviets pilfered Germany following WWII, loot ended up in hands of Rothschilds
After the end of World War II, millions of archival documents were taken to the Soviet Union from Germany. Of these, many can only be guessed about the content, which, of course, gives rise to rumors. But not all the "trophies" remained in Russia. Some of them were later exchanged by the Rothschilds. So what documents are we talking about?
There and back
The export of archival documentation from Germany to the USSR became part of the compensation after the surrender of the fascists. There were even those responsible for this - trophy brigades, which were ordered to take everything that was of any value. It was necessary to act quickly, and therefore sometimes it was not possible to determine the true meaning of a document. In order not to be mistaken, the soldiers preferred to take almost everything. That's why it's unclear how many "trophies" exactly got into the territory of the Soviet Union. Obviously, several tens of thousands.
Thus, Anatoly Vilkov, Executive Secretary of the Interdepartmental Council on Cultural Values Relocated to the USSR as a Result of World War II, said that according to the results of the inventory conducted in 2001, more than 247 thousand objects of art, archeology, numismatics and rare books, as well as 266 thousand archival cases taken out of Germany, have been preserved in federal museums, libraries and archives of Russia. The figures could be much higher, but in the middle of the last century Moscow returned about three million cases to the GDR, the content of which is currently lost (they were not previously copied, and their inventories are not available).
Profitable exchange
The Rothschild family had an impressive amount of documents, which became known only in 2001. It turns out that representatives of the dynasty exchanged an archive consisting of more than 400 cases for the period from the XVII to the XX century. It included business documentation, marriage contracts, biographical materials, correspondence, including almost two thousand letters from Austrian Chancellor von Metternich to Solomon Rothschild.
This archive got to the Germans in 1938 during the occupation of Austria, and after the collapse of the Third Reich it was taken to the USSR as a restitution.
In return, the Russian side received four and a half thousand letters from Emperor Alexander II, which were owned by bankers, which he wrote to his beloved, Princess Katerina Dolgoruka.
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At the same time, even the rest of the archival German documents today is a little-studied layer of information, the volume of which is amazing. Historians working in this direction are sure that these materials will certainly help to learn more about the fate of 3.4 million Soviet prisoners of war in Germany.
Source: https://russian7.ru/post/kakie-trofeynye-dokumenty-tretego-r/