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During World War II, Nazi Germany carried out the greatest art theft in history.
Led by Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg and the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Task Force (ERR), the Nazis stole over one million art pieces from across Europe. Many of the plundered “ownerless cultural goods” were destined for a proposed Führermuseum in Linz.
At the urging of art conservator and Navy reservist George Stout, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt established the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA), with the aim of protecting cultural treasures from the violence of warfare and returning stolen works to their rightful owners.
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April 15, 1945
The 90th Division of the U.S. Third Army discovered this cache of Reichsbank wealth, SS loot and Berlin museum paintings that were removed from Berlin to a salt mine vault in Merkers, Germany.
Image: National Archives
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