Rockwell illustrations from world war ii. chris: do you ever feel like you re in that warehouse at the end of indiana jones? we make that joke all the time. chris: we were there to see the status of nazi propaganda. 586 pieces seized during hitler s fall and sent back to the u.s. hitler s retreat at - - the luxurious mountain residents. chris: the man in charge of the operation, - -, appointed by president roosevelt. why was it so important to remove this art from germany postwar? they believed the presence of these pieces in german society could be essentially a powder cake that could kick off additional incidents of the nazi rise. chris: this painting, in the beginning, was the word.