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During World War II, there was a group of people who risked everything to protect priceless works of ____ from ruin.

In 1943, around ____ people from 14 different Allied nations* came together to form the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) program.

They were not ____ soldiers but scholars and experts of various kinds, such as professors, historians, and architects.

These ____ men and women volunteered to protect Europe’s cultural heritage and became known as the “Monuments Men.”

When the ____ was first formed, its main goal was to prevent the destruction of cultural landmarks.

The Monuments Men ____ the Allied forces not to bomb areas with museums, churches, or other culturally significant buildings.

They also visited areas that had already been destroyed to restore damaged architecture and ____ of art.

It wasn’t long ____ their role expanded.

During the war, the Nazis had ____ stealing works of art and other cultural treasures from countries across Europe.

They hid these treasures in places like ____, mines, and caves.

When the Monuments Men learned about this, they ____ looking for the stolen treasures.

Their search has since ____ called “the greatest treasure hunt in history.”

When Germany began to lose the war, the ____ objects came under threat.

Hitler ordered his ____ to destroy everything that could be useful to the Allied armies before they retreated from an area.

Some Nazi ____ believed that this included not just military and industrial equipment but everything of value—even the stolen works of art.

One of the largest ____ of stolen items was hidden in the salt mines of Altaussee, Austria.

Upon discovering its location, some of the Monuments Men rushed to the ____.

They hoped to ____ everything before it was too late.

Meanwhile, the Nazi leader who was in charge of the area tried to destroy everything by setting off large ____ inside the mines.

This could ____ been disastrous.

Luckily, some local miners found the ____ in the mines and came up with a plan to protect their livelihood.

They secretly removed the ____ explosives and put smaller ones at the entrances.

Once they went ____, the Nazi leader believed that everything was destroyed.

However, while the small explosions sealed off the entrances, they left the rest of the mines and the ____ of art unharmed.

When the Monuments Men arrived and ____ their way into the mines, they must have been amazed to see what was inside.

There were thousands of priceless objects, including paintings, statues, books, ____, and more.

The Monuments ____ thought it would take about one year to transport everything they found to a safe location.

However, because control of the area was going to ____ at the end of the war, they would have access to the mines for just two months.

With insufficient packing supplies and only a few trucks, the transporting mission seemed ____.

Not only that, but food was in short ____.

____ without eating proper meals, they worked up to twenty hours a day.

They used coats and gas masks as packing materials and did everything they ____ to accomplish this vital mission in time.

In the end, the Monuments Men succeeded in rescuing thousands of stolen ____ of art, including important pieces such as Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Johannes Vermeer’s The Astronomer, and Michelangelo’s Madonna of Bruges.

The efforts of the Monuments Men did ____ end with the war.

For ____ years, they continued the work of recovering cultural treasures and identifying where they had been stolen from.

In the end, the Monuments ____ returned more than five million works of art and objects of cultural importance to their places of origin.

Not everything that was stolen by the Nazis has been found, but ____ the Monuments Men accomplished is truly amazing.

Without this determined group, the search for stolen works of art might never ____ begun.

In addition, countless historical and cultural landmarks would have been lost forever ____ to the destruction of war.

It is worth remembering the Monuments Men’s contribution to the ____ of cultural heritage.

Thanks to their efforts, many incredible cultural sites and ____ of art have survived and can still be appreciated to this day.