The Real-Life Heroes Who Inspired the Movie Monuments Men: Their Lives in Photos
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George Clooney’s newest film, Monuments Men, follows the exploits of an Allied platoon of seven “Monuments Men” who enter Germany during the end of World War II to rescue art stolen by the Nazis.
The movie is based off of the real life “Monuments Men," a group of more than 300 men and women from thirteen countries who worked together to protect and recover the stolen cultural artifacts. Their ranks ranged from museum directors to architects — and they would ultimately help return more than five million artistic and cultural items plundered by the Nazis.
