Central Files, 1945–1950

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Central Files, 1945–1950

1945-1950

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595554

This series consists of correspondence, cables, memorandums, reports, inventory forms and cards, restitution claims, bar lists, shipping tickets, balance sheets, worksheets, interrogations, payment orders, vouchers, registers, and other records regarding the deposit and release of assets. Records of interest include information relating to “Gold Pot” delivery, including an inventory and analysis of gold bars used to generate the Howard Report (named after Leland Howard, Assistant Director of the U.S. Mint Service and Chairman of the committee of experts who analyzed the gold held); restitution of non-monetary assets to the International Refugee Organization (IRO); the investigation of the Melmer deliveries, including information on the distribution of looted Shutzstaffel (SS) gold; interrogations of Reichsbank officials, including Emil Puhl and Albert Thoms; and documentation of prisoners of war and concentration camp victim effects, including a list of individual saving account records from concentration camp victims (file 940.304) and lists of Dachau prisoners (file 940.4052).

29 linear feet, 8 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

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