Saving Art From the Nazis

During the second World War, Hitler ordered his commanders to take sculptures, paintings and other art works from museums and individual collectors to fill a giant museum he was planning to build. Much of this art work was lost, and much more notable architecture was destroyed during the course of Nazi expansion. Robert Edsel, who heads up The Monuments Men Foundation, talks about the Allied effort to protect and recover works of art.

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