The monuments men and women were members of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) program, active from 1943 to 1951. Composed of about 345 men and women from more than 10 countries, the MFAA was run by the Allied powers during World War II to preserve cultural and historical items and landmarks. Despite severely lacking resources, the monuments men and women were able to find and retrieve more than five million items, many of them artworks that had been stolen by the Axis forces.
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