Texas Officer Swipes Priceless Art Treasures

From Germany on Jun. 19, 1945, Lt. Joe Tom Meador wrote to the folks back home in Whitewright, Texas to ask “if my packages are getting home.”Two months earlier almost to the day, the 87th Armored Field Artillery occupied the medieval town of Quedlinburg 100 miles southwest of Berlin in the last weeks of the Second World War. During a routine search, “an intoxicated soldier,” acc...

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