Turnham guarded ‘Monuments’
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As then 22-year-old Pete Turnham walked through Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Bavaria with his sergeant, little did he know he was looking at some of Western Civilization’s most valuable art masterpieces.
Hitler and the Nazis had stashed artwork stolen from France and elsewhere in the castle, which was the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in California.
Turnham, a first lieutenant who led a 200-man infantry company Read more [...]