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Content. Next a Panel Discussion about robert edsels the Monuments Men about recovering and protecting european cultural artifacts that the nazis stole during world war ii. This is about an hour and 30 minutes. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there we go. Okay. Roberts second book is entitled the Monuments Men allied heroes, nazi thieves, and the greatest Treasure Hunt in history. This panel tonight will discuss those allied heroes the monuments named, the nazi thievebut not thethieves and tht Treasure Hunt in history. With the ambassadors staff on the panel on the legal also touch on som...

Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to th...

Interviewed and answered questions about his book which is now a major motion picture. In the book, he tells the story until al lied classes i started asking friends in europe and they said you live here, you should know. And it evolved this way having out of questions i could not seen at the beginning writing three books about it. Now a feature film and the foundation continuing the work. It has been a privilege to represent these heroes. And it has been an amazing experience. Why did you move . I was 39 and i had an understanding how quickly 39 becomes 59. I wanted something meaningful. It w...

You have a book here, any thought of conducting a tour . The m t the Monument Foundation did that and is doing that. We call it in the footsteps of the Monuments Men and its something we are going to be doing to italy in 2015 and also to europe so people can follow the story as they took place in italy and also in the Monuments Men. We had on humans accompany us when we were on the trip last year and one of the stops we made was at the cemetery to the grave of the monuments officer who was one of the two killed during combat. Host monumentsmenfoundatio host monumentsmenfoundatio n. Org is the ...

He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book ...