Imagine everything that represents your religion, culture, customs and traditions -- stolen and never to be seen again.
"The Rape of Europa," is a documentary based on the book by Lynn H. Nicolas. It offers a detailed description of Adolf Hitler's plan to steal, plunder and destroy the greatest pieces of art in the history of Western and Eastern Europe. Hitler saw it as a way to erase the very existence of those who were considered "undesirables" and eventually sent to Concentration Camps.
Hitler and his high ranking officers, most notably Hermann Göring, the head of Luftwaffe (The German Air Force) also pilfered the valuables as a way to house the artifacts in a museum that Hitler dreamt of building in Linz Germany as a personal legacy.
This movie also provided an unbiased view of the American troops who were assigned to locate and return the valuables as well as a few who helped themselves to these lost treasures.
This documentary did an excellent job of shedding further light on Hitler's evil and personal vendetta against an entire race of people whom he blamed for his shortcomings.
I brought my 14-year-old son to see the movie in order to gain a very valuable history lesson about the "evil that men do." Afterwards, I asked him what he thought once the movie ended.
His one question was "How can anyone do something like that?" I thought of what one of the retired soldiers who assisted in locating the valued treasures stated. To paraphrase the gentleman, "There are no words to describe what hate can do to a person and others."