The Monuments Men By George Clooney

The Monuments Men, directed by George Clooney, is a 2014 film based on World War II. This movie reveals another crime the Nazis were committing which was the theft of many famous art masterpieces and hiding them inside different mines all around Germany so no one could find them. To stop the Nazi thieves from taking priceless masterpieces away from anyone else, the United States created a unit containing seven men to retrieve the masterpieces and return them to where they belonged; they were known as the monuments men. Once the monuments men heard about Hitler’s plan to destroy every piece of art he stole, it was a race against time. The team would sacrifice their lives to save the artwork from any destruction, but is risking your life for a piece of art worth it? At the beginning of the movie George Clooney’s character, Frank Stokes, gives a speech to his men before going out to find the missing art, in that speech he states, “That your lives are more important than a piece of art”. Although, as the movie progresses and men begin to die it becomes clear that some people would die to save a piece of art. For instance, when Donald died from a Nazi soldier, it was to try and save the Bruges Madonna and Child from being taken by them. I believe this was a turning point for the monuments men, after losing a friend who tried to save the Bruges
Claire Simone had worked in the Jeu De Paume museum in Paris where many famous pieces of art were shown. She had a book which kept track of where every piece of artwork went when it left the museum and was even color coded. She helped the monuments men by giving them not only that book, but she gave them information she found while spying on the Nazis inside the museum. She helped lead the men to the castle known as Neuschwanstein, where some of the sculptures from the Jeu De Paume were