fred hartt's dedication to italy didn't end with the flow war.66 during a horrific floods in november fred hartt like other monument officers traveled around the country, united states raising money to make available to the italians to try to help this disaster situation to begin repairs of works of art, this is something that last a lifetime, many of the other monuments officers' and apropos, being fred hartt's companion of 30 years, similarly labored with foreign officials to make sure fred had a chance to be buried in the church that he loved so much, overlooking the city, and in the course of my work over the last 17 years or so, last ten years full time i had a chance to meet 17 monuments officers', interviewed all of them and many of their family members. today there are five monuments officers' still living, one woman who is british, men and i asked each of them one question, is part worth a life and one of our monuments officers' who is living and to the question this way. >> i remember having a discussion with stewart leonard and berlin

fred hartt was there before deane keller.time deane keller arrive, it's too late for these works of art in the back into the city, standing next, inside this bill. one of the many hundreds of works of art. there were 38 other villas they were to learn containing similar works of art that had been moved out of the city by the superintendent. german field marshal albert kesselring was determined to avoid making mistakes he felt to be made in rome by hitler's order to not destroy the bridges of rome, and he was in the process of supervising the demolition charges that were being set on all the bridges in florence, trying to delay the allied advance. by the time the monuments officers and the u.s. fifth army, british eighth army arrived in the florence, all of the bridges with the exception of caravaggio was not destroy but although it was the lesser of the important bridges, the most important being a bridge that its design was influenced by michelangelo. hitler had been told that but he would have nothing of it. he was convince