From May 1945 Thomas Carr Howe served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives officer in Germany. He describes recovering looted paintings from the monastery of Hohenfurth in Czechoslovakia, the salt mine at Alt Aussee and Bavarian castles, finding the Rothschild jewels and Göring’s collection, and returning treasures to the countries they were taken from.
A first-hand account of the real Monuments Men at work. Download the free EPUB.