March 1939 Frey seizures (1939-1942) Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce seizures, 1940–1945 Mühlmann Agency seizures, 1939–1945 Einsatzgruppen unit seizures, 1939–1945 SS-Ahnenerbe unit seizures, 1939–1945 Panels from the Ghent Altarpiece theft, 10 April 1934 Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 World War II, 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 Gosford House fire, 1940 Castle Howard fire, 9 November 1940 The Blitz, 7 September 1940 – 21 May 1941 Bridgewater House bombing, 11 May 1941 Bombardment of Manila, December 1941 Bombing of Bremen, 1942 Palazzo Archinto (Milan) bombing, 1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, 17 January – 18 May 1944 Ovetari Chapel bombing, 11 March 1944 Destruction of Warsaw, 1944–45 Royal Castle, Warsaw explosion Bombing of Dresden, February 1945 Battle of Manila, 3 February – 3 March 1945 Schloss Immendorf fire, May 1945 Friedrichshain flak tower fire, May 1945 Ashiya District air raids, 5–6 August 1945 Quedlinburg medieval art theft, 19 April – June 1945 Soviet looting, 1939–1945 Kronberg Castle looting, 5 November 1945 Arno Breker Sculpture Destruction, 1945- Arshile Gorky studio fire, 1946 Alfred Stieglitz Gallery theft, 1946 Musée de Beaux Arts de Strasbourg fire, 13 August 1947 Coleshill House fire, 1952 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) fire, 15 August 1958 American Airlines Flight 1 plane crash, 1962 Dulwich College Picture Gallery theft, 30 December 1966 Izmir Archaeology Museum theft, 24 July 1969 Oratory of San Lorenzo theft, October 1969 Stephen Hahn Gallery theft, 17 November 1969 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft, 4 September 1972 Musée Albert-André, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, theft, 12 November 1972 Invasion of Cyprus church thefts, 1974 Russborough House art theft #1, 1974 Palais des Papes Picasso theft, 31 January 1976 Corridart installation destruction, Montreal, 1976 Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro fire, 8 July 1978 Varig plane disappearance, 30 January 1979 L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art theft, 15 April 1983 Kunsthaus Zürich incendiary attack, 1985 Musée Marmottan Monet theft, 28 October 1985 Russborough House art theft #2, 1986 Neue Nationalgalerie theft, 27 May 1988 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, 18 March 1990 Lincoln's Inn theft, 16 September 1990 Houghton Hall theft, 30 September 1992 Windsor Castle fire, 20 November 1992 Uffizi car bombing, 1993 Moderna Museet theft, 8 November 1993 The Scream theft, 12 February 1994 Kunsthalle Schirn theft (Frankfurt art theft), 28 July 1994 Stéphane Breitwieser: 172 museum thefts, 1995–2001 Oklahoma City bombing (Murrah Building collapse), 19 April 1995 Galleria Ricci Oddi theft, 18 February 1997 Louvre theft, 3