(Associated Press)

A press conference held at the Meadows Museum on Tuesday announced and revealed newly discovered material related to art works stolen by the Nazis in World War II.

The two photo albums, full of photographs of stolen French art works and furniture, were donated to not-for-profit Dallas-based Monuments Men.

The organization seeks to raise public awareness of uncovering and protecting artistic and cultural treasures that may have been stolen or misplaced during a war or other conflict.

“[The albums] are key pieces of evidence taken from a crime scene,” said Monuments Men Foundation President Robert M. Edsel.

Monuments Men received the two albums from the heirs of two World War II soldiers who took the albums from Hitler’s own chalet in Bavaria.

Many other soldiers similarly stole tokens from Hitler’s homes and regime as souvenirs for their hard work in combat.

“These albums are just the tip of the iceberg for hundreds of thousands of cultural items still missing since World War II,” Edsel said.

The two albums are numbers 7 and 15 in a series showing the looted artwork.

The National Archives, who received the albums from Monuments Men Tuesday at the conference, already hold 41 similar photo albums.

One of the albums, Album 7, contains the images of 69 paintings from some of the earliest Nazi thefts, dating back to 1940.

“I hope discoveries such as these will encourage other members of the 989th Battalion and their families, as well as all veterans, to look in their attics and basements for any lost wartime items as they may hold the clues to unravel this unsolved mystery,” Edsel said.

Curently, George Clooney is developing a film based on the Monuments Men and their efforts to recover stolen art from around the world.