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In this photo taken in Dallas on Dec. 2, 2009, Robert Edsel, founder of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, holds a lost album that once belonged to Adolf Hitler, part of a series compiled for Hitler featuring photographs of art he wanted for his 'Fuehrermuseum,' a planned museum in Linz, Austria. The book, taken by U.S. serviceman John Pistone during World War II from Hitler's home, is expected to be formally returned to Germany in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department in January. Stamped on the album's spine is 'Gemaldegalerie Linz' — Gemaldegalerie means picture gallery in German — and the Roman numerals for 13. The foundation was involved in 2007 in the restitution of two other albums that were part of a series documenting art stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families.