photo: Monuments Men Foundation

Monuments Man and architect Captain Walter I. Farmer, the director of the Wiesbaden Collecting Point, is the only real life character to appear in The Roses Underneath. When I began work on the novel some four years ago, little information existed online about the individual Monuments Men or their work. After trying for months to research the Wiesbaden Collecting Point, which is the setting for the book, I located a copy of his memoir, The Safekeepers: A Memoir...