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 some of the more contemporary efforts by the United States government to address the loss and return of what in the late 19 90s we began calling the holocaust era assets. In a way whats been done since the 1990s is following in the steps of the monuments named. Using the records they created as the guide past and using them to help turn history into the justice and expression that i stole from the am
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 person who valued violence but also had a notion of a new society. This is certainly not a medieval vision but a new vision. Mussolini before he came to power had been a radical socialist. He had been reading social meeting and it was the outbreak of world war i that he had the division with the socialist party or for the war and he wanted italy to enter the war. He founded the fascist movement an
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 like to end with the idea that einstein had it right in my opinion. He left german prior to hitlers armament buildup and maintains the reason he left as a scientist was because he wasnt going to work for a raw and r rabid nazi militia. He is one of the people with power that petitioned truman not to let operation paperclip happen but to no avail. And my last picture is this. This is an old german pr