There’s a line in the 2014 movie The Monuments Men that goes: “They’d tell us that with this many people dying, who cares about art. They’re wrong… You can wipe out a generation of people. You can burn their homes to the ground and somehow, they’ll still come back. But if you destroy their achievements and their history, then it’s like they never existed.”
During World War II, a specialised Allied unit of over 345 experts from 13 nations rescued over 5 million art and cultural masterpieces stolen or hidden by the Nazis. We need another group of Monuments Men now. In Iran.
Published – March 06, 2026 05:57 pm IST
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