Introduction

This episode focuses in on the second world war. How did artists, curators and arcevists at places like the louve museum in paris protect some of the world's greatest masterpieces from the nartes? As art historian and best selling author laura morelli explains, the nares had a ded ted, sprawling, heavily funded department that was specifically given the job to steal and hoard precious art. They even had their own natcy theft division. But there was one paiting that they couldn't find, one that hitler, the failed artist desperately wanted. And despite a cat and mouse chase that lasted the entirety of the war, they never got their hands on