todaysdocument: Who were the Real Monuments Men? German loot stored in church at Ellingen, Germany f

todaysdocument:Who were the Real Monuments Men?German loot stored in church at Ellingen, Germany found by troops of the U.S. Third Army. 4/24/45. Can’t make tonight’s The Monuments Men talk with Robert Edsel at the National Archives? (Watch it online on the usnationalarchives Ustream channel). Or want to brush up on your history in advance? Read about the real “Monuments Men.”Made up of art historians, museum curators, archivists, and architects, the men and women from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFA&A) Section of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, aka the “Monuments Men,” were assigned to protect Europe’s cultural heritage. Learn about individual Monuments Men in the recent series on the Text Message blog:Walter Kirtland Hancock, Hometown Hero: St. Louis’s Monuments ManRonald Balfour, A British Monuments Man Killed in Action Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, An Unlikely Monuments Man Walter J. Huchthausen, A Monuments Man Killed in ActionSeymour J. Pomrenze, A National Archives Monument Man Mason Hammond, the First American Monuments Man in the Field Edith Standen, A “Monuments Man” in Germany 1945-1947 Karol Estreicher, The Polish Monuments Man S. Lane Faison, An Office of Strategic Services Monuments Man Sir Hilary Jenkinson, An Archivist Monuments Man Walter Horn, A Monuments Man InvestigatorDouglas Cooper, A British Art Historian and Collector Monuments ManRead up on the author of many of these pieces: Greg Bradsher: Monuments Men expert at the National ArchivesMore on the Monuments Men at:Media Matters » The Real Monuments MenPrologue: Pieces of History » Nazi Art Looter’s Diary, Long Missing, Found and Online for the First TimePrologue: Pieces of History » You won’t see this in the Monuments Men movieMonuments Men and Nazi Treasures by Dr. Greg Bradsher, via Prologue MagazineHi-res and public domain images relating to looted artDr. Greg Bradsher’s extensive online finding aid to these materialsIn 2011, the National Archives launched the International Research Portal to Nazi-era records, providing digital access to millions of Nazi-era cultural property–related records through a single portal for the first time.The Eisenhower Library has a number of records related to the Monuments Men.Oh, I can tell you a lot about Jenkinson since we’re in the same line of work. Jenkinson believed that the job of the archivist was to passively save everything that was brought to them, an archival theory that is nowadays considered very passé, especially given electronic records. Modern archivists actually actively seek and sometimes create records to make sure they fill gaps in the historical record and don’t keep everything ever - because sometimes a useless piece of paper really is a useless piece of paper and we have tiny budgets and not enough space.…sorry for the post hijack. -- source link

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