This week, Ira spoke with Robert Wittman, author of author of Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures and The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich. He also finds time to be a keynote speaker at meetings and conventions across the country, as well as a zoom lecture series he is doing on Thursdays, September 8-29 for the University of Pennsylvania museum. In this eclectic episode of Ira’s Everything Bagel, Robert talks about why he decided to join the FBI and how he was assigned to specialized training in cultural property crime; why it’s a a $6 billion industry every year; the two most valuable pieces recovered; why, after leaving the agency, he decided to write Priceless; his success in finding top Nazi Alfred Rosenberg’s diary, which went missing after the Nuremberg trials; and why he wrote the story of the search and included the translation of it in The Devil’s Diary.

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