" When the Nazis took Paris, the director of the Toledo Museum of Art wrote to David Finley, director of the not yet opened National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to encourage the creation of a national plan, saying, “I know [the possibility of invasion] is remote at the moment, but it was once remote in France. "

― Robert M. Edsel , The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History