SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION
GREAT ART TREASURES AUSTRIANS FOIL NAZI PLAN (Rec. noon.) VIENNA, December 27. Dr Herman Michl, director of the Austrian Natural Histoiy Museum, revealed that the Austrian Resistance Movement saved 7,ooo'great paintings looted from Europe’s art galleries from destruction by the Nazis. Dr Michl said that art treasures were stored in the salt mines at Altaussee, near Salzburg. The Nazis planned to blow up the mines with eight one-ton bombs when they decided that the Avar was lost last March, but the Austrians discovered the plan by chance and removed the detonators, rendering the bombs harmless.
The treasures included about 20 Rembrandts, Michelangelo’s ‘ Madonna,’ and carvings and paintings from Monte Cassino Abbey.
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Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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