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Old September 24th, 2007, 02:15 PM
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Default Tale of those who recovered European art

"How an obscure group of 350 men and women helped save Western civilization from the Nazis' unprecedented and systematic looting and destruction of Europe's great paintings, monuments and other cultural treasures."

"Mr. Edsel also met with filmmakers who had the film rights to the story and decided to co-produce a documentary, The Rape of Europa, based on the author's book of the same name."

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Default Re: Tale of those who recovered European art

This brings to mind the 1960'ish movie 'The Train'. Starring Burt Lancaster, and supposedly based on a true story (NOTE: based on a true story - Hollywood-speak for 'Well....the WAR really happened!') Hollywood aside, it's still a really good movie about a French resistance attempt to stop a train carrying looted artwork to Germany.

I enjoyed it.

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Excellent story. Incredible treasures!
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