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When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, in addition they seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In the eve of the Allied invasion, Basic Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to safeguard these ancient riches. In May 1944 two improbable North american heroes-artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt-embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of absent art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli.
