Saving Madonna

Saving Madonna

It is 1 February 1945 and the Battle of the Bulge is over. Much of the Belgian village of La Gleize, where the Waffen SS of Kampfgruppe Peiper became trapped, is destroyed. Walker Hancock of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section – one of the so-called Monuments Men – aids civilians in finding a safer place for the Madonna of La Gleize as the church no longer has a roof. For more posts on WWII and the Bulge, see my Facebook page. (Courtesy Walker Hancock Collection)

2016-09-23T13:55:54+02:00