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This is a photo of the Mona Lisa being unwrapped after returning to her rightful place in the Louvre after the second world war. One of the things that the Third Reich was known for was the looting and pillaging of private art collections, with over 200,000 works thought to have gone missing during the war. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was listed as one of the paintings that Hitler himself wanted, and it was Jacques Jaujard, the director of France’s National Museums who ensured that the Mona Lisa, along with the rest of the contents of the Louvre stayed safe for the duration of the war. The pieces they rescued included the 4000 year old artifact known as the Seated Scribe, the huge 16-by-24 foot painting of Gericault’s “The Raft of Medusa”, and massive statues such as “Winged Victory” that weighs over three metric tons. When the Mona Lisa first left the Louvre and went into hiding, she was transported in an ambulance, on a stretcher with elastic suspension to minimize jostling.