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The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million European Jews by Adolf Hitlers Nazi Party. The horrors of the Holocaust have documented been many times. Even those that were not killed, mutilated, or starved in concentration camps were stripped of their citizenship and their identities. The Nazis did not stop there, though. Hitler, in his quest to build an empire, planned and executed the most extensive theft of art and cultural treasures in history.A group of art historians, museum curators, scholars, and others with an expertise in art accepted the enormous responsibility of traveling to the front lines of World War II in an effort to protect art before it could be stolen or recover the art that fell into the hands of the Nazis. Even more lent their expertise when the fighting ended, remaining in Europe for years after the war was over. They were called Venus fixers by the troops but have since come to be known as the Monuments Men. Acting on orders from General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had the backing of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, many of the Monuments Men and women put their lives on the line for art. By doing so, they preserved not just paintings, sculptures, a

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Author

Brinkley, Howard, HistoryCaps

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781483989396

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.6 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14