At the time the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful, doing everything they could to take the Jews valuables. It was all part of their ultimate plan to eliminate the Jews and only have people of “pure” blood in their communities. They were determined to take all of the Jews possessions, beginning with any Jewish owned business and from there they started taking art and valuables. It was mainly done by military units known as the Kunstschutz, although some plunder was acquired during the war. This essay will focus primarily on three things in relation to the Nazi Plundering of art. It will investigate the ways the Nazi’s tried to systematically loot the art and culture from the countries they conquered. We will focus on how, when the tide of war turned, the Nazis’s made it their primary goal to insure that no one else would recover these priceless pieces of art. Finally, we will focus on the Monument Men, an organization of men that made it their singular mission to find these missing pieces of history and restore them to their rightful
At the time the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful, doing everything they could to take the Jews valuables. It was all part of their ultimate plan to eliminate the Jews and only have people of “pure” blood in their communities. They were determined to take all of the Jews possessions, beginning with any Jewish owned business and from there they started taking art and valuables. It was mainly done by military units known as the Kunstschutz, although some plunder was acquired during the war. This essay will focus primarily on three things in relation to the Nazi Plundering of art. It will investigate the ways the Nazi’s tried to systematically loot the art and culture from the countries they conquered. We will focus on how, when the tide of war turned, the Nazis’s made it their primary goal to insure that no one else would recover these priceless pieces of art. Finally, we will focus on the Monument Men, an organization of men that made it their singular mission to find these missing pieces of history and restore them to their rightful