"When tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions of people are murdered, they become a kind of faceless blur, a numbing statistic in the public's mind. By contrast, the specific images of famous Rembrandt or Picasso paintings were personally familiar to many Americans — and that familiarity engendered the sympathy needed to bring about intervention." -Rafael Medoff, The Monuments Men Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews Die
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