How a young group of American spies saved Greece’s precious artifacts
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Shortly after the occupying Nazi army goose-stepped into Greece in the spring of 1941, officers of the Wehrmacht entered Athens’ neoclassical National Archaeological Museum. Their goal: To take possession of a treasure of antiquities — a statue of Zeus, the Mask of Agamemnon and thousands of other pieces — and return all to the fatherland as their leader had ordered. Along with his “Final Solution” for the Jews — some 70,000 would be exterminated in Greece alone — and his desire to eventually
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