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Feb 7, 2014 · The Monuments Men movie depicts the Allied effort to protect, recover, and return priceless artifacts damaged in World War II or looted by the Nazis. Here's the real story of the desperate effort ...
Feb 10, 2014 · Walter Garfield (John Goodman) is inspired by Walker Hancock, described by Edsel as a “renowned sculptor of monumental works.”. Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville) is based on Ronald Balfour, a...
Oct 14, 2023 · George Clooney's character in the movie, Frank Stokes, was based on George Stout, who played a role in creating the Monuments Men, as claimed by The National WWII Museum.
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- Was The only Duty of The Monuments Men to Recover and Protect Looted Artworks?
- Was The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program The Idea of George Stout?
- Did The Monuments Men Really Have to Go Through Basic Training?
- Did The Real Monuments Men Ever Work Together in A Group?
- Did The Men Really Learn Key Information from A Chatty German Dentist?
- Did Hitler Really Order That The Art Be Destroyed Should He Die?
- Did Hitler's Order That The Art Be Destroyed Ever Go Into Effect?
- Did Any of The Monuments Men Actually Die?
- How Many Times Was The Mona Lisa Moved in An Effort to Protect It?
- Did They Really Find Gold Fillings Like in The Movie?
No. In addition to recovering looted art and ensuring its safe return, when possible, to its rightful owners, the members of the MFAA (Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives) program also protected vulnerable museums and churches, and worked with other military units and officials to dissuade Allied bombers from destroying targets of significant cultur...
Yes, but in a more roundabout way than in the movie. Though George Clooney's Frank Stokes character's real-life counterpart, George Stout, was instrumental in the creation of the real Monuments Men (the book calls the MFAA his "brain child"), his influence wasn't as direct as the movie implies. In conjunction with his colleagues at Harvard, Stout w...
Yes. Many of them were already reservists, but others, who had no military experience, did go through Basic Training. That training often took place in England prior to entering the field.
No. Unlike the film, "...the (Monuments Men) never worked together in a group," says historian Lynn Nicholas, author of the first scholarly examination of the story, The Rape of Europa, published in 1994. -USAToday.com
Yes. In researching The Monuments Men true story, we discovered that by the end of March 1949, Robert Posey (Bill Murray in the movie) had developed a severe toothache. With the nearest army dentist being a hundred miles away in France, he and Lincoln Kirstein (portrayed by Bob Balaban) tracked down a German dentist. The talkative dentist ended up ...
Yes. Through the issuance of the 1945 Nero Decree, officially titled the "Demolitions on Reich Territory Decree," Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered that if he died or Germany was about to lose the war, then the nearly 5 million pieces of stolen art were to be destroyed, along with factories, supply depots, transportation and communication facilities...
No. Despite the two criteria Hitler set in the Nero Decree having been met (his death and Germany on the verge of losing the war), the decree was never actually implemented. Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments, was given the order, but he had become disillusioned with Hitler toward the end of the war and persuaded Nazi generals to ignore t...
Yes, but not quite as romantically as they do in The Monuments Men movie. In the film, Monuments Man Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville) bravely sacrifices himself in a failed effort to save Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges. In real life, this did not happen. However, two Monuments Men did perish in the war. Ronald Balfour, 41, who is in fact the rea...
During the war, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was moved six times before she was returned to the Louvre. The painting was certainly an item that the Germans would have loved to have gotten their hands on. The Nazi's had created "shopping lists" of items that were earmarked for priority "removal" and transport back to Germany. Museum officials, alon...
Yes. The book describes a soldier at Merkers salt mine showing Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley a bag of gold fillings that had been pulled from the teeth of Holocaust victims. Other reports describe the discovery in more detail, citing chests full of gold fillings, similar to what is seen in the movie. -MonumentsMen.com
Jul 11, 2020 · The movie was written based on the book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Hunt in History, by Robert M. Edsel. The film takes a number of artistic liberties, however. National Archives A Monuments Man rifles through a collection of stolen Torahs at the Offenbach Collecting Point.
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The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett. The film is based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter.
Feb 7, 2014 · George Clooney (center) stars alongside Dimitri Leonidas, John Goodman, Matt Damon and Bob Balaban in the World War II drama The Monuments Men, inspired by the true tale of an...
