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Where things get illegal is when soldiers invade enemy territory and then steal what does not belong to them. This is the act of either pillaging or looting, both of which are illegal.
Pillaging and looting are very different from spoils of war. Pillaging is a war crime on an international scale. Looting is common after natural disasters, such as when people steal televisions from their local electronics store because the store is flooded and there is no one present to supervise the store. Spoils of war, however, is enemy property that soldiers capture or seize legally.
In other words, once the U. The taking of that property is legal because the property becomes a perk of winning the war. For instance, if U. One of the many horrors resulting from World War II was the sheer number of cultural artifacts that Nazis looted as they occupied more and more of Europe.
The Nazis looted millions of books and valued cultural items from private homes, museums, and libraries. Though Allied forces decimated many German cities, the Nazis were still able to hide much of their own valued property in places like remote monasteries and mines before the enemy could destroy it.
Many of these items never returned to Germany and instead spread all over the world, depending on who ultimately found them. Immediately following the war, the U. An example of spoils of war took place back in the early s and is still a relevant issue today.
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