the nazi " monuments men" and the" germanic Europe" (1 Viewer)

[Poppo]

Also the nazi had their " monuments men". A department of the Wehrmacht organized after 1943 to rescue the works of art distributed on the Italian territory, from Venice to Milan from Rome to Florence. Of course it was not to protect them from flights of the Luftwaffe but the Anglo-American bombing that in Italy, although over the years there have forgotten, leave on the ground 70,000 victims, mostly civilians, and whole town centers. Remember, among the monuments targeted by 'air from the four-engined allies, the' useless devastation of 'abbey of Montecassino.

"Italians do not harbor any interest in prehistoric research," wrote in 1937 Himmler to Walther Wust "they seem totally disinterested to figure out where they came from, which from a political perspective may be for them perhaps correct. Therefore I confer the task of building a section of the 'Ahnenerbe to study Italy and Greece in their relations with Arianism indogermanic. It must prove that the Romans, like the Sunnis, the Umbrians, the Volscians, the Latins, the Etruscans, the Sicilians have come to south like migrating tribes indogerman. "

It would be similar to contemporary representations present in Sweden, thus confirming the 'hypothesis that we are all products of the same civilization, which has migrated from northern Europe until almost lapping the Mediterranean.

 

[RPZ]

A German film, Die Gruenen Teufel von Monte Cassino, addresses the saving of historical art and artifacts from the Abbey prior to the allied bombing. Also a good read from the German perspective of the battle of Cassino, and the bombing of the Abbey is Neither Fear nor Hope, by General Fredolin von Senger and Etterlin.