Collection of papers relating to the Art Looting Investigation unit of the U.S. War Department's Office of Strategic Services, 1945-1946.

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Collection of papers relating to the Art Looting Investigation unit of the U.S. War Department's Office of Strategic Services, 1945-1946.

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Collection contains 33 reports, memos, transcriptions issued by or collected by the Art Looting Investigation unit of the OSS, 1945-1946. Most of the material consists of reports generated by the unit: Detailed Interrogation Reports of German personnel involved in the theft and sale of confiscated art; a detailed report of the activity of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg in France, responsible for confiscating Jewish-owned collections in France. According to the report this was the "most elaborate and extensive art looting operation undertaken by the Germans in World War II." Other reports include one on the amassing of the Hermann Göring art collection and another on the Hitler Museum and Library. A Final Report by the unit provides a summary of the field operations 1945-1946 and includes an extensive list of names, with biographical information, of people involved in the confiscation or sale of art. Also included in the collection are lists of dealers involved in the confiscation, sale, or repatriation of art. A few papers are English transcriptions of Nazi reports and memos. Some reports have annotations. Most are marked confidential.

.83 lin. ft. (2 boxes) + ADD (6 boxes)

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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

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Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946

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Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001

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