The so-called “Monuments Men” (art protection officers / Cultural Heritage Protection officers) made up the special unit MFAA (Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives) and served in the armed forces of the Western Allies from 1943 to 1951.

My customers often ask me for book recommendations to further their knowledge about the Second World War and its aftermath. So I would like introduce the very well written historical novel, Rule of Law, by Winton Higgins.

As reported in the German press, a prominent Nazi war criminal, chief of Hitler’s infamous Secret State Police (Gestapo), Heinrich Müller, was buried in a Jewish cemetery in central Berlin in 1945.