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The Monuments Men
Where is the Art?
A US Military Officer in charge of finding Stolen Art talks to a Nazi officer who hid the art. This is based on a real operation where the US saved stolen art before it could be destroyed by the Nazis as they retreated into Europe.
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Video Transcript
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like to ask you a few questions
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so wise
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why'd you blow the mind
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what was in the mind
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so
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I think
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you know the war is over
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congratulations
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we believe that there are pieces of Art in that mind that we've been tasked to find
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just take him out
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what will you offer me for my answer
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as you say the war is over
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I followed my orders have committed no crime according to the Geneva conventions I will be
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released and sent home
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I was told that before you were sent here
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you ran one of those camps
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who told you that little bird
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you're not Jewish Lieutenant
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no
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then you should think me
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you know I don't smoke either
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my first cigarette
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and I want to remember this moment
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let me go home soon
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get a nice apartment in New York and they have west side
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is the deli down the street called SIDS
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every morning
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I'll walk there and I get
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a cup of coffee and a bagel and
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read the newspaper
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I think about it every day that I'm here be the first place I go when I get Stateside
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I'm going to be sitting there you do you wanna
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sit melman's toasted onion bagels
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and reading
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a tiny article in the New York Times
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page
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18
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it says that you Colonel back in your were hanged for your crimes you committed during the war
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even buried in unmarked grave
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and then I'll think about my cigarette
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I'll think about you sitting there with that stupid look on your face
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no
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just my coffee
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leave the paper Force indirect fission
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I never think of you again
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sure you don't want that cigarette
