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During World War II, the Nazi party stole thousands of pieces of European artwork and other items of cultural significance. Some were destroyed, but after the war, many treasures were recovered by the Allies’ Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA). Hundreds, however, remain missing and there is an international effort to find them and return them to the heirs of the rightful owners. If you’re a movie buff, you can learn more about the Nazi plunder with these films: Woman in Gold (USA, 2015), The Art Dealer (France, 2015), Monuments Men (USA, 2014), Rape of Europa (USA, 2007).
Google Cultural Institute: World War II Looted Art
“The Third Reich’s Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, or ERR, was the main agency involved in the systematic looting of cultural treasures in Nazi-occupied countries.” In cooperation with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Google has created an excellent annotated slide show telling the story of the retrieval of many cultural artifacts. “Perhaps the most unlikely heroes to emerge from World War II, the Monuments Men (and women) were a multinational group of curators, art historians, and museum directors who saved artistic and cultural treasures from destruction.”
Monuments Men Foundation for the Preseveration of Art
“These monuments, works of art and cultural objects belong to all of us; they define our human identity.” Visit to peruse the list of artworks still missing from World War II (including paintings by Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Cézanne), read up on recent recoveries, and learn about the Monuments Men. “Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians, artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed.”
Rape of Europa
The official site of the 2007 movie of the same name, Rape of Europa includes The Story in Pictures, Historical Timeline, Recent Restitutions, and the story of the Monuments Men. “The men and women associated with the MFAA remained in Europe well after the end of hostilities in 1945. They established central collecting points which received and sorted the enormous amount of treasures recovered from war areas and more than a thousand hiding places to enable these objects to be restituted to their rightful owners. These efforts continued until 1951.”
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