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Albums cataloging Nazi-looted art presented to National Archives
The discovery of two albums detailing stolen French art that the Nazis were to take to Germany for Adolf Hitler's personal collection was announced Thursday at the National Archives. The leather-bound albums contained photographs of art by Hubert Robert and Francois Boucher.
Allen Wallenstein, chief archivist of the United States, called it, "One of the most significant finds related to Hitler's premeditated theft of art and other cultural treasures to be found since the Nuremberg trials." American troops found 39 similar albums near the end of World War II and used them as evidence against Nazi war criminals during the trials. The historians believe there may have been up to 85 of these albums put together by the Nazis for Hitler and for their purposes. The Nazis looted hundreds of thousands of cultural items throughout Europe over the span of the war, mostly confiscating art from world-renowned Jewish-owned art collections.
Soldiers filled 30 rail cars for the first shipment from France to Germany. That initial shipment contained Vermeer's "Astronomer," now on exhibit at the Louvre in Paris. All of these documents meant to demonstrate their loyalty, their proficiency.
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I think that this is very cool. It is very interesting to know that there were old arts hidden by the Nazis and this is very cool becuase these pieces of art contain alot of history and can give us more information about WWII. I think that the soldiers should still keep searching for more arts because these are very important for us it gives us alot of information about the past and about Hitler. Art gives alot of detail especially the kind of drawings that the albums contain it gives us details of what the people thought and felt in those days especially during the days of war and the days of the holocaust.