After World War II, the U.S. Army’s team of art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. They were known as the Monuments Men, but they also included women. In recent years, the female members have been coming into the spotlight. Video by Kendria LaFleur
DALLAS (AP) — After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her base in Berlin traveled to examine stolen works, tracked looting cases and investigated suspicious art dealers.
Decades later, Quessenberry and the other female members are getting recognition.
The Dallas-based foundation honoring the group updated its name in recent years to recognize their contributions, highlighted their work in a new exhibit at a national museum, and is set to publish for the first time in English a memoir in which one of the women describes spying on the Nazis while working at a Paris museum.