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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-08 11:30 AM
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Did anyone watch "The Rape of Europa" last night on PBS?
http://www.rapeofeuropa.com/

It was about the Nazi's stealing art during ww2 and it was really interesting.

And they highlighted this group as well

http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/

About the Monuments Men:

The “Monuments Men” were a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations who comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section during World War II. Many were museum directors, curators, art historians, and educators. Together they worked to protect monuments and other cultural treasures from the destruction of World War II. In the last year of the war, they tracked, located, and ultimately returned more than 5 million artistic and cultural items stolen by Hitler and the Nazis. Their role in preserving cultural treasures was without precedent.

The Monuments Men remained in Europe for up to six years following the conclusion of fighting to oversee the complicated restitution of stolen works of art. During that time they played instrumental roles in rebuilding cultural life in the devastated countries of Europe by organizing temporary art exhibitions and musical concerts. Art and culture mattered greatly then – today – to the Monuments Men.

Upon returning home, many of the Monuments Men and women had extraordinarily prominent roles in building some of the greatest cultural and educational institutions in the United States. They became directors and curators of world renowned museums such as the Met, the MOMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and many others. Other revered institutions, such as the New York City Ballet, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts, were the tangible results of ideas of the Monuments Men.


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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-08 12:29 PM
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1. My mom, who's not much of a PBS viewer, CALLED me to tell me about this.
If even she found it outstanding, I know it must've been good. We missed it, but I'm hoping for a weekend re-run. She's asked for the DVD set for Christmas.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-08 12:31 PM
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2. It really was excellent, so many details. I'm thinking about buying it for my Stepmom
for Christmas as well.

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