Nazi Art Tours America

An American post-war victory lap.

US soldiers admire Manet's Wintergarden, discovered in the salt mines of Merkers, Germany. April 25, 1945.

Army Col. Henry McBride had been dispatched from Washington in November 1945 to assess the conditions under which the Army’s Monuments Men were storing looted Nazi art at Germany’s Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point.

McBride was well-suited for this …