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On April 27, 1945, President Harry S Truman designated Presidential Special Assistant Edwin W. Pauley as his personal representative, with the rank of ambassador, to head the U.S. delegation to the Allied Reparations Commission considering German reparations. At the Crimea Conference the major powers had agreed that Germany would be "obliged to the greatest extent possible to make reparations." After negotiating the formula and methods for exacting reparations, Pauley led the U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan in late 1945 and a third mission concerning Japanese assets in Soviet occupied Korea and Manchuria in 1946. On March 7, 1947, Pauley transferred to the Department of State and was designated Special Advisor to the Secretary of State on Reparations.
General Records 1945-1948 (Entry 1106A)
Boxes 1-9 location: 250/48/32/03
European Mission Subject Files 1945-1947 (Entry 1106B)
Boxes 10-20 location: 250/48/32/04
Box # File Title
10 Alien Property Custodian
Complete Index to Files European Mission-ACR [provides a document level description of all files in this series]
Austria location: 250/48/32/04
11 Cable Index
Cables (8 folders)
Commission Papers
Claims (Individuals)
Captured Currency
Claims and Procedures location: 250/48/32/04
11-12 Committees location: 250/48/32/04
12 External Assets
Council of Foreign Ministers location: 250/48/32/04
13 Farben, I.G.
Foreign Economic Administration
Externals Assets
Safehaven [contains United Nations Declarations; Swiss Report; Note Presented to Spanish Government; Internal Memoranda and Reports on Safehaven Objectives; and, Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS). location: 250/48/32/04
14 France
Greece
Gold [included are, among other things, a June 29, 1945 memo from DuBois to Paul concerning assets (including "Hungarian Gold"); a July 2, 1945 cable from the Secretary of State to Pauley stating percentage reparations should include France, U.S. advocates a minimum of %50 for USSR, and gold not to be demanded by U.S.; a July 12, 1945 memo from Monckton to Paule on restitution of works of art; a July 18, 1945 note used for discussion with President at Potsdam giving reasons for the restoration of identifiable gold to banks in liberated nations; a July 26, 1945 transmittal note from Kindelberger to Pauley concerning report on treasures held at Frankfurt; a August 4, 1945 letter from Paul to the President concerning disposal of gold captured in Germany; a August 13, 1945 cable from Pauley to the Secretary of State on the share of France in reparations and restitution of captured gold; a August 14, 1945 telegram from Clayton to the Secretary of State advocating the "Gold Pot" theory of disposal of captured gold; a August 8, 1945 cable from the Secretary of State to Pauley concerning the retention of a lien on gold looted from occupied countries by Germany with a view towards settling U.S. claims against such countries; and a August 20, 1945 cable from Truman to Pauley indicating that State Department opinion should prevail in the matter of handling gold captured in Germany and all correspondence on the matter should be addressed to the Secretary of State.]
Italy location: 250/48/32/05
15 Memorandum on the Provisions of the Berlin Protocol Relating to Reparations location: 250/48/32/05
16 Poland
Protocol-Berlin, Copies of
Protocol-Berlin Conference
Progress Report, ACR
Reparations Plans
Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
German Report-Bennett
Known German-Owned or Controlled Firms in the European Neutrals and Latin America as of April 1, 1945
Report to the Secretary of State: German Reparations for Council of Foreign Ministers Conference November 1947 by Edwin W. Pauley
location: 250/48/32/05
17 German Reports
Preliminary Studies of Reparations from Selected German Industries, FEA Report, 317pp. May 1945
German Reparations Report
A Report on German Reparations to the President of the United States February to September 1945, Edwin W. Pauley
location: 250/48/32/05
18 Mueller Documents location: 250/48/32/05
19 Restitution
Reparation Shares
Reparations (4 folders)
"Problems of German Reparations," OSS Report December 30, 1944
Rumania location: 250/48/32/05
20 Speer Papers
Stateless Persons
War Booty location: 250/48/32/05
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