There's a small movie we couldn't get on Reel Talk, but it's well worth checking out. "The Rape of Europa" is a documentary recounting the looting of Europe’s great art museums; all part of Hitler’s twisted, demented schemes to create a great museum for himself. He, of course, had been rejected as a penniless artist from a prestigious art institute and it was one of the many grudges he carried all his life.

I never knew that the Louvre’s treasures were painstakingly carted off to the countryside as the German army approached in 1940. One person interviewed is the daughter of one of the Louvre’s curators at the time, talking casually of having the Mona Lisa hidden in their country home, the painting is referred to as "she."

The movie tells a little-known aspect of world war two. Many of the paintings looted remain lost to this day, with many in the hands of some museums and collectors who don't have the right to possess them. When the daughter of a pre-war Jewish family finally retrieves her parents' treasured painting at a Utah museum, she fights back the tears she's been holding in for decades. It’s playing right now in New York, slowly expanding across the country.

Find out where at therapeofeuropa.com.