National Archives & Monuments Men Foundation press event 5/8/14

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The National Archives and Monuments Men Foundation held a press conference on May 8, 2014 to unveil the last known leather-bound album of art works stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The Monuments Men Foundation donated this rare album known as "Hitler Album No. 6" to the National Archives in Washington, DC on V-E Day, the anniversary of the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

National Archives Prologue magazine story:
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2013/summer/monuments-men.pdf

http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/discoveries/err-album-6-returned-to-national-archives

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