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Volunteers outside the USA: Thomas Carr Howe died in 1994. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 50 years; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
This is Public Domain in the U.S.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68150"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of this assignment, I was engaged in field work which included the recovery of looted works of art from such out-of-the-way places as a monastery in Czechoslovakia, a salt mine in Austria, and a castle in Bavaria. Later, as Deputy Chief of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, Office of Military Government, U. S. Zone, I participated in the restitution of recovered art treasures to the countries of rightful ownership.
This book is primarily an account of my own experiences in connection with these absorbing tasks; but I have also chronicled the activities of a number of my fellow officers, hoping thereby to provide the reader with a more comprehensive estimate of the work as a whole than the resumé of my own duties could have afforded." (Summary by Thomas Carr Howe, Jr. (from the author's note))
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[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 10
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[*]Original publication date (if known): 1946
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Art, Design & Architecture
Keywords that describe the book: art, stolen, monuments men, nazis
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For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:"Section # of Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European art. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Salt mines and castles, by Thomas Carr Howe. Section Title."
"Section (or Chapter) # of Salt mines and castles by Thomas Carr Howe. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
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