Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder

Nine years ago, I received a call from a well-respected historian who informed me that my father had played a leading role in one of history's greatest treasure hunts. He told me my father had been involved in the recovery of billions of dollars of gold bullion, silver, foreign currency, artwork and the possessions of Holocaust victims stolen by the Nazis and hidden in the closing days of World War II. The historian, William R. Wells II, said he had stumbled across my father's obit in the New Yo...