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Just because you’re sleeping with @guywalters...
...doesn’t mean you get a discount on this week’s Hunting Evil epic.
More than 200 of Walters’ Mitties gathered this evening for the opener.
Who were the hunted, the helpers and the hunters?
A great question was asked about...
More than 200 of Walters’ Mitties gathered this evening for the opener.
Who were the hunted, the helpers and the hunters?
A great question was asked about...
...looted art and the mystery of the Amber Room.
The best book, in my opinion, on the looting of works of art during WW2 is...
The best book, in my opinion, on the looting of works of art during WW2 is...
...The Rape of Europe by Lynn H Nicholas.
The scale of theft was staggering and, although much was recovered from salt mines at, for eg, Altaussee in Austria, and then restituted, much was not. The consequences continue to be felt today.
Woman in Gold is a good movie.
The scale of theft was staggering and, although much was recovered from salt mines at, for eg, Altaussee in Austria, and then restituted, much was not. The consequences continue to be felt today.
Woman in Gold is a good movie.
There were two WW2 units that the @BritishArmy Cultural Property Protection Unit (CPPU) considers as its antecedents: the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Branch and the Art Looting Investigation Unit.
They wrote ‘end of war’ reports on...
They wrote ‘end of war’ reports on...
...their activities which have informed the roles of the CPPU - together with the Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017, which ratified the Hague Convention (1954) and its two Protocols, and best practice from Allies.
If you want to read about the units, @RobertEdsel wrote Monuments Men and Saving Italy, both of which I recommend.
And....
And....
...George Clooney made a movie (not a documentary!).
