Meet the "most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration"

I stumbled on the story of Evelyn Tucker (1906-1996) while poking around elsewhere and needless to say, it caught my attention.  Here's her Monuments Men Foundation entry, and her Wikipedia entry contains this nugget:

"She was described as 'the most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration,' she 'reported the missteps and mismanagement of her superiors and actively investigated the hushed subject of looting by American officers.' Her Final Status Report to the director of the USACA Section, Headquarters, United States Forces in Austria on February 16, 1949 detailed the significant number of art objects which had been relocated, against MFAA policy, to "officers' clubs and the personal offices of generals" and, contained this noteworthy commentary:

“It is a matter of regret to me that USACA did not attach enough importance to my handling of this delicate and explosive work, about which only I am familiar, to allow me to bring it to a successful conclusion.

Two years after her death in 1996, a 1949 letter from Tucker to U.S. State Department cultural affairs officer Ardelia Hall was found in Hall's archives and has since been used in cases to secure restitution for stolen property for surviving family members of Holocaust victims.

She sounds like a force to be reckoned with and I think she would be pleased to know that her work is helping bring restitution to families well into the 21st century.