Records Regarding the Foreign Exchange Depository, 1947–1949

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Records Regarding the Foreign Exchange Depository, 1947–1949

1947-1949

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This series consists of memorandums, inventories, reports, receipts, and cables concerning the disposition of assets from the Foreign Exchange Depository (FED). The records were maintained by the Office of the Finance Advisor and its predecessor. The series includes the final report of the Currency Section, FED Group, Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.), of September 30, 1948; instructions concerning procedures for restitutions; records regarding the property of former inmates of the concentration camp of Dachau and deposits by or for U.S. military government personnel; inventories of shipments or deposits of collections of seized property, including those described as the silverware and effects of Eva Braun, mistress of Adolf Hitler, the so-called "Goering jewels," and funds seized from Pierre Laval, Premier of Vichy France. The series also includes monthly reports of assets held by the FED, 1948-1949; daily reports, September 24, 1948, through October 17, 1949, of actions taken by the FED Group concerning the disposition of individual shipments; a register of valuables in the custody of the FED revised to February 9, 1948; records regarding the shipment of monetary and non-monetary gold; and a report, dated March 27, 1948, of a board of officers appointed to establish pecuniary liability for the loss of gold coins and Allied military marks stolen from the FED in 1947.

3 linear feet, 1 linear inch

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