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Quotes by Robert M. Edsel

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Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with the cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here.”1 Forty-three thousand troops were ferried across the English.
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Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man’s creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man’s struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.
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He had no idea that the world was entering an economic depression, or that hard times bring recriminations and blame. Privately, Harry’s parents worried not just about the economy, but about the rising tide of nationalism and anti- Semitism.
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Possessed by the grasp of quality and connoisseurship, he knew and measured the worth of man’s visible heritage and determined, in the midst of constant change, to preserve and enhance that heritage so that it might be visible to anyone with eyes to see.”30.
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Those who had benefited from the false stories of Altaussee had been working behind the scenes to defeat the petition. Without.
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He was a modernizer, in other words, who never forgot the importance of the individual people behind the machines. His.
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More than anything, the Nazis robbed families: of their livelihoods, their opportunities, their heirlooms, their mementos, of the things that identified them and defined them as human beings.
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The identity and infrastructure of the nations of Europe had to be rebuilt, and the restitution of artwork was a vital component.
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A good start, a willingness – even eagerness – to work beyond the call of duty, a sense of fair play, and a recognition of opportunities before and when they arrive.
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There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight. -Jaques Jaujard.
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