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| | TIME.com: Home from the Salt Mines -- Jun. 17, 1957 -- Page 1 |
 | | The director of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, Dr. Ernst Buchner, was ready for World War II the day it came. |
 | | The Alte Pinakothek was damaged by fire bombs in 1943, had its roof blown off in July, 1944 and, on Dec. 17, 1944, took three direct hits, was reduced to ruins. |
 | | A few years later, more than 200 of the Alte Pinakothek's best paintings went on an extended European tour, to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. |
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