and apropos, fred hartt companion of 30 years similarly labored with florentine officials to make surechance to be buried in the church ladylove so much, overlooking the city. this is the tombstone where fred is very. over the course of my work the last tenures full time i had a chance to be 70 monuments officers' coming to women i have interviewed the medium the members of today there are five still living one woman is british and forbid it i have asked each of them one question, among others is art worth of life in one monuments officers' is of the question this way. >> i remember having a very lengthy discussion with the berlin apartment one night. what is of value a work of art or a human life? i would say the human being here he say a work of art. so we have another drink and another drink. i said would you give your life to save the cathedral? he said sure. then he said it actually i have that choice to make because there were bombs placed around the cathedral and as a bomb disposal expert i was the one that had to take them and dispose of them. he won the argument that way [laug

fred hartt and dean heller risk their lives on numerous occasions walking through booby-trapped buildings trying to protect these works of art. in fact, two officers in northern europe, a story i described in "the monuments men" were killed. they were there on the front line doing their job. they came back after the war, many of them resumed their careers, someone onto even bigger and better things. and i daresay there's not a museum our major cultural institution in this country that doesn't have a connection with the monuments officer. i want to let you see a couple of the prominent people and institutions that they represented in the years that followed. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we don't have any monuments officers nearby that were able to make it tonight. one, in fact, does live not too far from philadelphia. however, we're very fortunate and it's such an honor for me to introduce to you all dean heller's other son and his wife are with us here tonight. thank you very much. [applause] i recall reading a quotation by president kennedy that said a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produc

fred hartt and dean heller risk their lives on numerous occasions walking through booby-trapped buildings trying to protect these works of art. in fact, two officers in northern europe, a story i described in "the monuments men" were killed. they were there on the front line doing their job. they came back after the war, many of them resumed their careers, someone onto even bigger and better things. and i daresay there's not a museum our major cultural institution in this country that doesn't have a connection with the monuments officer. i want to let you see a couple of the prominent people and institutions that they represented in the years that followed