Perspective Arts: The Search for Stolen Masterpieces 

Fascinating history. Thanks to all who put this sterling video together, and for having it available for free on YT.

It's a pity that National Library in Warsaw didn't have so much luck to be rescued. In 1944 Nazis have burned hundreds of historical manuscripts, priceless books, unique gems of print, even though they promised to preserve them. All what is left if a glass box of ashes you can see today displayed in Raczyński's palace in Warsaw that once hosted one of most exquisite cultural collections in Europe.

The Monuments Men were heroes of mine for the invaluable work they did.

Excellent documentary in every way.

It makes me ill to think of what we have today and think of all the historic buildings, castles, and churches. where these artworks were housed, were destroyed. Thousands of years of art, architecture, and furnishings, paintings, etc. were lost only 70 plus years ago!!!

Any country that invades another is gonna go for the pricey collectables of museums, galleries & wherever else they can find expensive treasures...just look at the U.S. when they went into Iraq, it was a free for all...I think the museums were actually made 1 of their top priorities. Also...the amount of stuff that was destroyed, vanished, still being black marketed, auctioned, etc in WW2 is unimaginable! These things r 1 of a kind. The artists that made them in thr 1st place can't just remake more, most of these works of art r hundreds of years old, they're priceless!....sad

Good, now do one on unrecovered art from the Soviet Red Army

Thank you so very much for your documentary! To add to their terrible crimes against humanity greedy Nazis not only were stilling priceless art , hunting and killing rightful owners with families but also making copies of it. In Lublin Ghetto Polish top artists drugged from homes in the middle of night for forced, free, labor worked like slaves in constant terror from Nazis painting day and night many copies of world art masterpieces freshly stolen . Unlike the story about Hans van Meegeren and his Vermeers we will never know how many Rubenses , Vermeers and others were painted in Lublin since Nazis made sure of it ...Those Artists were silenced forever with over 6 Millions Poles. Do you have any idea if Raphael's self- portrait know as Portrait of Young Man from Czartoryski Museum was ever recovered? Once more thank you so very much!

Well done!!! Blessings!!!

Hail the Monument Men! Enjoyed.

“Every mother deserves a Leonardo da Vinci!” I’ll remind my kids of that! 🤣

I am spare in my comments, however I must say THAT WAS ONE BRAVE LADY! May you rest in peace and thank you! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

A lot of former public or private treasure was plundered by allied or Axis forces, or is still lying in German caves and lakes, or cellars and attics around the world, or Swiss bank vaults, or secret collections or melted down. Some art auctioneers try to sell it with knowledge or suspicion, but the rightful owners or descendants fail to recover it - despite the Swiss banks once-and-for-all gesture of repatriation of just some of it. Disgusting.

Anyone interested in this subject should also read the book The Rape of Europa by Lynn H. Nicholas which goes into great detail about the stolen treasures carried out by the Nazis. One aspect that doesn't get mentioned is that about 300 works that were taken from German museums and private holdings by the Nazis were then taken to the United States (to the National Gallery in D.C.) as the American government feared leaving them in Germany would be at risk to more theft and would be returned "when a responsible government in Germany is formed." This of course created a great controversy at the time.

Excellent !!!

Brilliant!

Grande , this is mostly still unresolved. Things just keep popping up. Press on comrade!

thanks for this ❤

It’s an amazing feat!

Thank you so much for this documentary! I just read Mr Patrick MacFadden comment for which I am very greatful! Thank you Mr. Mac. Fadden! It would be wonderful to add what Stalin took from Wilno, Grodno, Lwow and basically half of Poland territory from 1939 with its land, lives of over 2 MLN Polish prisoners & their treasures , documents and priceless books from hearts of Polish culture for centuries in Wilno. Lwow, Grodno with not only documents from Polish history but Polish kings artifacts, art collections, their gifts to those universities, monasteries. All of this should be a subject of research . Since Hitler stole from all Europe , hunt for stolen treasures by Nazis become an international interest. Stalin however stole from Poland only and never answered not only for Katyn massacre on Polish cream of society, over 2 Mln Poles in gulags, annexing Wilno, Lwow, Grodno but also Russia never gave back what he stole from Poland. Like Hitler Stalin made sure that owners were killed. Also they were thousands of priceless today violins, cellos, bows stolen from Poland by Hitler and Stalin.Maybe at least Russia may give back Poland Henryk Wieniawski's Stradivari from Moscow Collection. ,,

So the sorry goes ... the Germans were not using the Abbey, but the Allies did not believe them, so they flattened it. I later knew a German who had been a soldier there and he said this was quite true ... until the bombing ... the ruins he said made far better cover than the standing Abbey would have. It seems it should have been saved for both historical and military reasons. Btw out of his unit of 60 men only 7 survived ... to then be sent to the Soviet Union ...

Hold in your hands the price of peace and see it crumble and fall between them

The Dutch bank is so happy that all their tons of stolen gold bars been found never returned home, but made great highways in the USA.

I am trying to say how pleased I am that the Germans were so careful and thorough but I make no sense to myself.

映画「The Monuments Men」の邦題は「ミケランジェロ・プロジェクト」。 映画のストーリーを考慮してミケランジェロを特に強調したのかもしれないけど。 美術品が現在も継承されている背景には、複雑な要素が絡んでいる。 どういう経緯で惨禍を免れたかの着眼で、さらに観賞価値が違ってくる。 複製や再生品よりもオリジナルの１品ものを重宝するのは、関わるいろいろな人の思いや時代背景が投影されるから。

Very interesting story, but I had to watch it with my sister, because it's got no captions. Considering the obvious quality of the video work...

Now make a Doc about England, Frace, Italy...has returned Stolen Art from Africa

They should have accept him as art student

THE THUMBNAIL! Hah!! SMH

The sculpture on far left at 13:30 is grotesque without trying to be. It says nothing beyond the fact that both it's creator and collector knew nothing about art nor anatomy!

So Perspective, why isnt this called the monuments men. Surely this was made Before the movie.

Most owners are dead , descendants should receive the art back. Also the real estate and anything else.

And where did the museum's get it from or should I say stole it from???

The immense greed and for what? Art! Every piece represents a life which then affects the lives of others. These are all stained with the blood and cash of millions for one of the deadly sins GREED definition having more than one could ever need! That no one gets to appreciate the beauty and story behind each and every person lost to history and their immaterial priceless value which took away the quality of lives for billions over decades to come. Who would have foreseen that!?! Allowed it all from just naiivite? No power and loss of humanity begins when inanimate objects value more to the few than the blood and flesh and mind stripped off others - vampires or leeches? Or bats and viruses??? Once existing is hard to over come. That's the power of addiction. The whirlwind of being driven by 'self' value measured in inanimate or synthesized materials that accumulated dirt, grime and birth diseases. Now man wants that toxic life to be sent out into space to infest other untouched 'godly' places that only the 'god' knows. When will man learn?

Please Would you add the captions to your videos

Russia has the rest of the missing items, unfortunately we will never find that much more

What about music? Is there famous music stolen and found?

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Young boy in the cop

Is it true a moment man died defending Mary and David in Bruges like the movie showed it ?

No wonder we’re a people with amnesia

Such a terrible loss to humanity.

Thanks RU-vid for being so desperate to keep shuffling my queue around that I'm commenting on the wrong video! Too many programmers in the kitchen.

5:05 That man is obnoxiously wealthy

How does this compare in scale with the Spanish plunder of South and Central America or England’s of India and North Africa? Which museums hold more stolen art from where?

watch the Amis,they took all sorts of things home with them also.

Saying that this business of stashing away are was just German greed is just a wee bit overdone. The primary reason the art was stashed in such great quantities was to prevent it from being destroyed in the widespread and indiscriminate bombing of German cities. God only knows how much great art was destroyed that way. Consider, for example, what happened to the Dresden Cathedral.

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All the missing art was not just stolen by Nazis. Many others plundered. All glory goes to the winner.

Too bad the Vatican couldn't be searched. Lots of rooms full of secrets & treasures.

5:40 is the cringest statement I've heared pretty much ever. Fascinating documentary tho.

How did the Nazis ever know where these were? Insurance?

John pham getting pay 40000

Now do the British

close frens and family try plot on us

i wish the movie they made was better

Now what about the 8 million works of German art, historical documents and titles stolen and destroyed by the allies, that STILL is locked away ajd kept awya from Germans?

What about the stolen art the British and Americans took from the Egypt, the Middle East, Rome, Greece ? The stolen gems in the British royal jewelry collection. Yea, let's talk about stealing.

Learn some history not only social media

If you were in their shoes would you have grabbed a classic painting or two for yourself ? Comon you can tell me. I wont tell anyone. I know I would have.

We were better off with the germans than the soviets

That guy has nice legs, no wonder he was painted... Lol.

Americans and Soviets stole lots of art too.

At 40:06 Looks like a Biden.

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Leave it to the historians to be hard headed and have no care for safety other than to rescue art. Tracks for my profession really.

Hmmmmmmm, Germany had the habit of securing artwork in safety until after hostilities & then returning it to the institutions from whence it came, so because Germany was scheduled for defeat in WW2 & occupied by the ZOG Gvts that conspired to bring it into a war again, it was unable to return the art work before the Americans & Russians plundered it.

as if the ordinary GI knows anything about Art

I like art myself but the prices of these material things is beyond sense. We protect these relics but place no value on the land, animals and flora that is being destroyed daily. Pity we can’t save our earth with such fervour.