This U.S. general who loved horses & studied at a cavalry school helped protect the Lipizzaners in WWII
His picture is 
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Kidnapped by the Nazis .... horses, (including the Lipizzaner stallions of the 
Spanish Riding School), were rescued during World War II by a group of people 
whose love of ...