Rape of Europa, The

Joan Allen narrates this stunning, comprehensive, educational, and gut-wrenching documentary, which is based on Lynn H. Nicholas book, that magnificently chronicles through interviews with art and cultural historians, art dealers, attorneys, museum curators, archivists, Holocaust survivors, and monument men and archival news footage, photographs, and film clips the unprecedented devastation that the Nazis wrought on the art world as they systemically destroyed and plundered countless thousands of pieces of priceless artwork, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, religious artifacts, antiquities, and furniture, that were housed in museums and private residences throughout Europe and Russia and the efforts by thousands of people and art connoisseurs during WWII to save the artwork and postwar efforts to return the artworks to their original owners.
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