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2014., [Publisher not identified] Call No: DVD Fic Monuments Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect mankind's greatest achievements.
![The monuments men [DVD] (2014). Directed by George Clooney.](/Library/images/~imageCT78686.JPG "The monuments men [DVD] (2014). Directed by George Clooney.")
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(2006)., Menemsha Films Call No: DVD 709.043 R216r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
![The rape of Europa [DVD] (2006). Directed by Richard Berg, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The rape of Europa [DVD] (2006). Directed by Richard Berg, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen.")
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1994., Knopf Call No: 709.043 N597r Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: THE RAPE OF EUROPA takes the audience on a journey through seven countries telling a story of greed and warfare that threatened the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art. Young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a campaign to rescue and return countless art works displaced by the war. Joan Allen narrates this chronicle about the battle over centuries of western culture.
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Call No: DVD Fic Woman Gold Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
![Woman in gold [DVD] (2015). Directed by Simon Curtis](/Library/images/~imageCT80004.JPG "Woman in gold [DVD] (2015). Directed by Simon Curtis")