Tag Archives: WWII

Sounds like a game? Nope – Just History

Recently I read an amazing article in the February issue of the Simithsonian magazine about the Monuments Men – soldiers assigned to reclaim the treasures stolen by the Reich during WWII.  “Ettlinger’s Nuremberg assignment evaporated without explanation, and he was plunged into a thoroughly unexpected sort of war, waged deep in Germany’s salt mines, castles, [...]