Sgt. Harold Maus of Scranton, PA examines an album of engravings by Albrecht Duerer that was found in a vault containing numerous other art treasures that were looted by the Nazi regime. (Date: April 17, 1945. Photographer: Donald R. Ornitz. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)

Sgt. Harold Maus of Scranton, PA examines an album of engravings by Albrecht Duerer that was found in a vault containing numerous other art treasures that were looted by the Nazi regime. (Date: April 17, 1945. Photographer: Donald R. Ornitz. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)

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