Nazi Thieves , Allied Heroes, and the Greatest Treasure search in History to tell the amazing true story of the seven museum curators and art historians who went behind enemy lines during the second World War on a mission to take back some of the world's greatest art work. With war going on in Europe, the Nazis have managed to sneak out some of the huge art collections on the continent. While the Third Reich begins to fall, the German army gets demanding orders that in the event of Adolf Hitler's death, they have to destroy every piece of art that they have. Wanting to stop a millennium of skills from going up in flames, United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a suggestion by Frank Stokes (Clooney) to form a task force comprised completely of art experts to enter Germany, recover the works of art, and ensure they are returned to their rightful owners.
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Some over-the-hill art experts, designers, historians and other scholars form a division to get back as many of the stolen art works as possible. The plan becomes even more persistent when the team learns about Hitler's "Nero Decree," which orders destruction of the artworks if the Third Reich falls. Trying to hurry, the men risking their lives to protect some of mankind's greatest achievements.
During World War II, the Nazis killed the greatest art heist in history. It was left to a special Allied military unit to get Europe’s priceless cultural treasures back. Decades before territorial ambitions and Aryan supremacy took over Adolf Hitler, a very different passion consumed him—art. But after Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts rejected a teenaged Hitler for his “unfitness for painting,” his dream of becoming an artist was destroyed . The hand that had easily painted watercolors would soon be brought up in a Nazi salute and take over Germany with a strong
Some over-the-hill art experts, designers, historians and other scholars form a division to get back as many of the stolen art works as possible. The plan becomes even more persistent when the team learns about Hitler's "Nero Decree," which orders destruction of the artworks if the Third Reich falls. Trying to hurry, the men risking their lives to protect some of mankind's greatest achievements.
During World War II, the Nazis killed the greatest art heist in history. It was left to a special Allied military unit to get Europe’s priceless cultural treasures back. Decades before territorial ambitions and Aryan supremacy took over Adolf Hitler, a very different passion consumed him—art. But after Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts rejected a teenaged Hitler for his “unfitness for painting,” his dream of becoming an artist was destroyed . The hand that had easily painted watercolors would soon be brought up in a Nazi salute and take over Germany with a strong