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вЂњThis is all about doing the right thing,вЂќ Kennedy said.Д®dsel started his foundation in 2007 to honor and continue the work of the original Monuments Men, the roughly 345 men and women from 13 nations who helped Allied forces protect cultural treasures during World War II. Christian Kennedy, special envoy for Holocaust issues at the State Department, said the agency is happy to help return objects taken during the war.

вЂњItвЂ™s really important that as people go through their attics and they find the things that grandpa brought home, people are aware that something as simple as a book of pictures could have a cultural significance,вЂќ Kline said.ДЄmbassador J. Kline, a Washington-based lawyer who specializes in art restitution and works for the foundation. Souvenir hunting was routine by soldiers during the war, and problems arise when people try to sell rather than return culturally important items, said Thomas R. вЂњHans MakartвЂ™s вЂPest in FlorenzвЂ™ (Plague in Florence), for example, the first picture of album XIII, Hitler got as a gift from Mussolini!вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s absolutely clear!вЂќ she wrote in an enthusiastic e-mail to the AP after reviewing scanned photographs of the album. She said she recognized paintings in the album along with the volume number and title. It still has a sticker from the bookвЂ™s binder in Dresden.Д«irgit Schwarz, a German art historian from Vienna who has written books about Hitler and art, including a book called вЂњHitlerвЂ™s MuseumвЂќ describing the albums in the series, is convinced the album is authentic. Stamped on the albumвЂ™s spine is вЂњGemaldegalerie LinzвЂќ - Gemaldegalerie means picture gallery in German - and the Roman numerals for 13.

COMPETETIVE UNITS IN MEN OF WAR 2 SERIES

Seeing it convinced him that Pistone had one of the missing albums of the series on the planned museum. Its founder, Robert Edsel, who while living in Italy for a time after selling his oil and gas business became interested in what was done to protect art in World War II, traveled to Ohio this fall to examine PistoneвЂ™s album. The friend discovered after some Internet searching that the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art was involved in 2007 in the restitution of two other albums that were part of a series documenting art stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families.

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