Germans and Bayeux tapestry to their loot of Europe's art treasures.

Germans and Bayeux tapestry to their loot of Europe's art treasures. The story of William the Conqueror's conquest of England, embroidered in the 11th century for Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, was stolen by the Germans in 1940 from a museum in Bayeux, famed French tapestry city liberated from the enemy by the Allies in June 1944. This is one panel of the tapestry which is 231 feet (70 meters) long and 20 inches (50 centimeters) wide. German invaders have stolen art treasures valued at more than $1,500,000,000 from Europe's cultural centers, including a collection of 12 paintings from the Naples Museum worth $3,000,000. Several hundred seizes Belgian, Flemish and Netherlands paintings now hang in a German Museum.