Author Robert Edsel discusses the life of a Jewish World War II Veteran born in Germany

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Harry Ettlinger is a German born Jew who was the last boy to celebrate his bar mitzvah in Karlsruhe, Germany before Kristallnacht. Robert Edsel tells the story of how Harry escaped Germany and eventually became a Monuments Man in the US Army. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. In what is perhaps the last major story of World War II that hasnt yet been told, a little-known Allied division was given the mission to find and protect European ...