Wasn't it some mouldy old Roman who asserted that civilization was only three meals away from anarchy? It would happen here too.

Artbrooks is right. Combat soldiers are not policemen. Protecting the museum was not their concern; winning the war was. A lot of antiquities were destroyed in Germany too during the Allied saturation bombing there during WWII.

This is just one more tragedy on top of a greater and greater pile of them. I hope all those bored people who had their shit in a knot looking forward to this thing to break up the monotony will be satisfied now.