Chicagoan Richard M. Barancik, who was the last surviving member of “The Monuments Men,” a group that recovered millions of pieces of art that had been looted by the Nazis, has died.
“It’s a bittersweet moment that we knew was going to come, and we’ve arrived there. It’s done,” said Robert M. Edsel, founder and head of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation and author of “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History,” which was the basis for a movie starring George Clooney.
