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And sister whom he had been close to refer to him as napoleon nest. Also for the 17 years he was pope he never allowed anyone to sit down at the table when he ate, not even a cardinal. And this by the way was different than some of his predecessors and a continuing tradition that all of his predecessors had obeyed. The popes vision of the church and of the world was basically a medieval one in which there was only one True Roman Catholic Church and all to his teachings and lines of authority. Mussolini as i alluded to before was in many ways his opposite. The anticleric, the rabblerouser, the ...

In 1997 and 1998, he oversaw the production of two government report about Operation Safe haven and these reports were quickly produced ae not well received in some places. So, ambassador, can you tell us what prompted the Clinton Administration to want to have these reports produced, and what was the outcome of these reports . Well, first, robert has dope an enormous has done an enormous service through his book. But i want to try to put it in an even broader context, and that is its a great tribute not only to the Monuments Men, but to the United States army and the United States of america....

Romans and the insignia that we see in rome and the mona lisa in the loop taken on one of napoleons ventures. What established it was a sufficiency and organization. With respect to artwork, it is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were stolen and 8000 of which are personally selected by adolf hitler for a museum that he planned after the war in his hometown. But artwork was only a part of it. So for example homes and businesses, jewelry, insurance policies and Bank Accounts. Let me just mention these and we will come back to these a little bit later it will be found for an article in the wa...

Dealers. And as the fuhrer was accumulating power, he was accumulating thousands of art works, many plundered from jews and museums. When gurlitt died, his reclusive son cornelius inherited them. Did you have any idea he has so many paintings in that apartment . I tell you what nobody had any idea about this. Masters like matisse, chagall, and otto dix worth more than a billion dollars today. So, who do these masterpieces belong to now . Thats our story tonight. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im morley safer. Im bob simon. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. I still struggl...

Remarks. You could see one part of Army Intelligence telling the pentagon we cannot bring this guy to the United States. He was a nazi and turned a colleague over and this was a u bad act but then the pentagon says we need him. And he came. There he is as the first director of the jfk space center and still every year they give out the kurt debus award. And i interviewed the head and said what about kurt debus who wore the ss uniform to work and turned over a colleague and he was a nazi . What do you say to that . And the answer was no one has ever asked me that question before. So, i would li...