Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art Michael Wiese Productions seventeen-year-old Mark Rodriguez was gunned

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Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art Michael Wiese Productions seventeen-year-old Mark Rodriguez was gunnedSalt Mines and Castles, originally published in 1946, is a first hand account of the work of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section of U. S. Forces, European Theatre (MFA&A), immediately following the end of World War II in 1945. Often simply referred to as the "Monuments Men," this group of unlikely soldiers included art curators, scholars, architects, librarians, and archivists from the U. S. and Great Britain. Their war time mission was to