Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men

Thomas Carr Howe interview excerpt


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Thomas Carr Howe (1904-1994) was the director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for nearly four decades. During World War II, Howe enlisted and was a U.S. Naval Lieutenant before being assigned to the MFAA Section, serving from 1945 to 1946 in Germany and Austria. In this audio clip, Howe talks about locating large caches of art work that had been looted by the Nazis in the salt mines and the postwar restitution efforts and returning the artwork to their countries of origin.
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Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments MenBy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution