235 Alps Skiing; The Monuments Men Today

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🗓️ 20 February 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rick chats with one of the original "Monuments Men," a German-born Jew whose family escaped to America and now helps repatriate the treasures of Europe from the caves and castles where the plunder was stashed and later gets tips for planning ski trips to the Alps, where the slopes have some of the most impressive vertical drops anywhere. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	You don't have to be a jet set or to find just the right ski slopes for you in the Alps.
0:04.0	If you're in San Moritz, you're going to be skiing from Champaign-Bar to Champaign-Bar,
0:08.0	you don't even need to take your skis off.
0:10.0	Scottsman, Don White, now lives near the slopes in northern Italy.
0:13.4	He joins us in a moment to fill us in on the alpine ski scene.
0:16.6	And nearby in Bavaria, a storybook castle had a dark story during World War II when Nazis
0:22.1	used it to store thousands of stolen art
0:24.0	treasures. Coming up, we'll meet Harry Ettlinger. As a German-born American soldier,
0:29.1	he helped retrieve Europe's great art from Hitler's hidden storage faults and reminds us what happened to his native Germany.
0:35.0	We have to respect each other human being and we have to respect each other in our culture.
0:41.0	Or we will no longer exist as an organized form of civilization.
0:47.0	He's joined by Robert Edzel who runs the Monument's Men Foundation which keeps their work going.
0:53.0	Winter Fun in the Alps and saving Europe's art in World War II.
0:56.0	It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.0	Imagine entering the massive chambers of a salt mine in rural Germany and finding thousands of art treasures from all over Europe stashed away by Nazi thieves.
1:09.0	Coming up today on travel with Rick Steeves, the story of the Monument's men gets personal.
1:15.1	They're the enlisted men in the Allied forces who helped restore the Nazi plunder to its
1:19.5	rightful owners.
1:21.1	In 1945, Harry Etlinger was a 19-year-old American soldier, eager to help the allies
1:26.4	in his native Germany.
1:28.5	Harry's ability to translate German led him to work in the abandoned offices of Hitler himself.
1:33.6	He joins us in just a bit, along with the head of the Monument's Men Foundation, to tell us how
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