Press & Appearances
As a monumental man watches, the Archives gets an album made by Hitler's art thieves
May 8, 2014
The Washington Post
After U.S. Army Pvt. Harry L. Ettlinger got the confiscated stained-glass windows out of the Nazis’ secret salt mine, he took a walk down one of its long corridors and came to a bricked-up doorway.
Panel Discussion of Robert Edsel's The Monuments Men
February 19, 2014
C-SPAN
Robert Edsel talked about his book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures From the Nazis, in which he reports on the rescue and protection of historic pieces of art in Italy during World War II. The Nazi Army, who occupied Italy in 1943, looted numerous historic artifacts and artwork that dated from the Renaissance and the Roman Empire. In his book, the author recounts the Allied mission to reacquire the artwork and focuses on the efforts of two men, art scholar Fred Hartt and artist Deane Keller, who pursued missing works by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Donatello.