At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western
world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art
treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he
planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate"
works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often
unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors,
curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked
their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of
years of culture.
