Records of the Bureau of European Affairs -- General Records of the Department of State (RG 59) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]


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    Records of Component Parts of the Bureau of European Affairs 1944-1962
Briefing Books, 1944-1951 (Entry 1601) (Lot File 54D394)

                Box 3 "German Assets in Austria, 1947--Report by U.S. Delegation, Austrian  Treaty Commission; location: 250/63/08/07

Records of the Office of European Regional Affairs

Records Relating to the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency, 1948-1956
(Lot File 60D500)(still part of Entry 1601)

        Box #  File Title
        36  German External Assets (GEA)--General
                        Germany, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,
                                United States
            History of the German Reparation Program, 1949-
            Countries--General
            Czechoslovakia
            Greece
            India
            Satellites--General
            United Kingdom
            USSR
            German Patents
            Annual Report
            Reparations Accounts (Treasury)
            Chron File, US Delegation
            Reparation Summaries, Status Reports, 1948-1949
            Claims for Reparations
            Accounting Problems
            Final Report, 1951
            Administration, 1956
            Documents
        36-37  Minutes 70-265
        37-38  Documents 260-1601, Parts I-III; Documents 160-1601, Parts IV-V  location: 250/63/8/06

Records of the Office of European Affairs, 1935-1947 (Matthews-Hickerson Files)

Records of H. Freeman Matthews 1942-1947 and John D. Hickerson 1935-1947. Matthews was Chief of the Division of European Affairs, 1943-44; Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs, 1944; and Director of the Office of European Affairs, 1944-1947. Hickerson was Assistant Chief of the Division of European Affairs, 1937-1944, and Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs, 1944-1947 (Lot Files 54 D394 and 395) National Archives Microfilm Publication M1244: (Entries 374-380)
Files of John Hickerson
        Roll 7  File "Reparation paper - Edwin W. Pauley"
Files of H. Freeman Matthews
        Roll 11  File "Argentina"
        Roll 14a  File "Germany - Reparations"
        Roll 18  Files "Portugal," "Spain," "Switzerland"

Miscellaneous Office Files of the Assistant Secretaries of State for European Affairs,  1943-1957 (Entry 1274)(Lot File 59D233)

        Boxes 22-34 location: 250/49/16/01
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        26  German Assets [1954-1956] (two files) location: 250/49/16/01
        27-28  Country files on Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland [1948-1955]  location: 250/49/16/01

Records of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, 1941-  1953 (Entry 1172) (Lot Files 54D224 and 59D559) 

        Country Files
            Box #  File Title
            13  Germany- "Assets in Switzerland"
location: 250/49/3/04
            14  Germany- "Reparations and Restitution"
location: 250/49/3/04
            19  Sweden-"Looted Gold" location 250/49/3/05

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs Relating to Italy, 1943-1951  (lot File 54D328) (Entry 381)

        Boxes 1-10 location: 250/46/2/02
        Box #  File Title
        1  Agreements, Pacts, and Treaties location: 250/46/2/02
        2  Economic Matters, including Proclaimed List Vesting by Alien    Property Custodian and Gold location: 250/46/2/02
        4  Italian-Great Britain Reparation
            German Libraries-Background
            Negotiations-Disposition of German Libraries in Italy
                location: 250/46/2/03    6  313 German Assets
            315 Looted Property [1950] location: 250/46/2/03
        7  313 German Assets
            315 Looted Property [1951] location: 250/46/2/03
        8  522 Reparations [1950]
            522 Reparations [1951]  location: 250/46/2/03

Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs

Subject Files Relating to Italian Affairs, 1944-1956 (Entry 1285) (Lot File 58D357)

        Boxes 10-21 location: 250/49/15/06
        Box #  File #  File Title  location:
        12  519  Reparations 1952-1953 250/49/15/06
        14  522  Reparations 1953  250/49/15/07
        16  520.02 Albanian Gold 1954  250/49/15/07
        17  514  German Assets (Minutes) 1954 250/49/15/07
        18  520  Looted Property 1954 250/49/15/07
        19  520.01 Salzburg gold 1954  250/49/15/07

Subject Files on Austria 1945-1950 (Entry 1174A) (Lot File 54D331)
        Alpha-Numeric File

            Box #  File #  File Title
            3  A-50  Reparations [1945]
            4  A-711 Reparations [1946]
            6-7  A-400 External Assets, German Assets, Gold Pot [1948]; [1949]    location: 250/49/4/01

Austrian Desk Files, 1950-1954 (Entry 1174B) (Lot File 56D294)

        Alpha-Numeric File
            Box #  File #  File Title
            9  A581  German Assets in Austria [1953-1954];
                A584  Looted Securities [1953-1954] location: 250/49/4/06

Records of the Office of Italian and Austrian Affairs, 1949-1953 (Entry 1174C)
(Lot File 54D541)

        Austria Alpha-Numeric File 
            Box 4 File A-400 External Assets, German Assets, Gold Pot[1950]  location: 250/49/4/01
        Austria Numeric File
            Box 8 File 585 External Restitution (Individual and Program)
            Box 8 File 586 Internal Restitution location: 250/49/4/02
        Italy Decimal File
            Box 9 File 315 Looted Property location: 250/49/4/03

Decimal Files Related to Italy and Austria, 1953-1958 (Entry 3092)

        Boxes 1-3 location: 250/62/32/01
        Box #  File # and File Title or Subject
        1-2  Alien property claims related toAustria, 1957-1958
        3  514 Italy, German Assets 1957

Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs (Entry 1282)
(Lot File 58D71)

        Subject Files Relating to Italy, 1953-1956
       
        Box 6 location: 250/49/15/05
        File #  Title
        514  German Assets in Italy
        514  German Assets in Italy-Correspondence
        514  German Assets in Italy- IARA - Third Countries
        514  German Assets - American War Damage Claims 1955
        519  Reparations
        520.02 Albanian gold (Monetary Gold)
       
Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs

Subject Files Relating to Austrian Affairs, 1954-1956 (Entry 1283)  (Lot File 58D72)

        Box 7 location: 250/49/15/06

        File #  Title
        320  German Assets in Austria
        391  Looted Property & Art

Subject Files Relating to the Austrian Occupation and Peace Treaty 1949-1955
(Entry 1284) (Lot File 58D223)

        Boxes 7-9 location: 250/49/15/06
        Box #  File #  File Title
        7  412  German Assets in Austria
        8  585  External Restitution
            586  Internal Restitution
         586  Austrian Reparations to Israel July-Dec.1953

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs

Records of the Spanish and Portuguese Desk Officers 1942-1955 (Entry 1400)
(Lot Files 59D108)

        Boxes 1-11 location: 250/49/28/04
        Box #  File Title  location:
        3  1954 German Assets, Portugal  250/49/28/04
        7  1956 German Assets  250/49/28/05
        9  1957 German Assets in Spain  250/49/28/05

Alpha-Numeric Files of the Swiss-Benelux Desk, 1951-1962 (Entry 3091)

        Boxes 1-15 location: 250/62/31/05
        Box #  File # and File Title
        11  N.19.8 Dutch gold pool claims location: 250/62/31/06
        14-15  contain numerous files on the Interhandel case, relating to  Switzerland, 1953-193; location: 250/62/31/07
        15  S.6C.3 Return of German assets, 1957-1961
            S.7.2A Swiss banking secrecy problems, 1956-1959
            S.10.2 Claims and trials location: 250/62/31/07

Miscellaneous German Files, 1943-1954 (Entry 1174E)(Lot File 55D371)

        Subject File
            Box #  File Title
            6  Reparations
                Restitution - German Internal location: 250/49/4/04

Records of the Office of German Affairs

Alpha-Numeric Files Relating to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1962
(Entry 3090)

        Boxes 1-14 location: 250/62/31/03
            Boxes 5-12 contain information on German assets in the United States and  Vested Assets in the United States 1949-1961 location: 250/62/31/03

Records of the Office of Eastern European Affairs

Records Relating to Economic Affairs, 1943-1963 (Entry 3087)

        Boxes 1-4 location: 250/62/30/07
        Box #  File Title
        1  Claims and Blocked Assets, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia
            Gold and foreign exchange reserves
            Poland claims, 1957 and before  location: 250/62/30/07
        2  Poland claims 1958-1961
            US Polish claims negotiations, 1960  location: 250/62/31/01

Miscellaneous Office Files, 1952-1960 (Entry 1276) (Lot File 76D232)

        Boxes 41-42 location: 250/49/16/03
            Box 41 contains information on Tripartite Gold Commission (1958), Polish  Claims

Records Relating to Czechoslovakia 1958-1963 (Entry 3082)

        Boxes 1-5 location: 250/62/30/05
            Box 1 File C-400.2 Tripartite Gold Commission

Records of the Eastern European Division (Czechoslovakia), 1946-1950 (Entry 1173A)  (Lot File 54D426)

        Box #  File # and Title
        2  C-400 Restitution [1948]
        3  C-400 Restitution [1949] location: 250/49/3/06

Records of the Central European Division, 1944-1953 (Entries 381A,B,C)

These records were maintained by the Division of Central European Affairs formed in January 1944, to handle U.S. relations with Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. As part of the Office of European Affairs, this Division consisted of a German Branch and an Austrian-Czechoslovakian Branch. The mission of the Division was to direct the daily conduct of relations with these countries. In order to fulfil this assignment, the Division evaluated information from various sources, prepared studies, tried to anticipate major problems, coordinated U.S. policy with other agencies, and worked with Allied and Occupation authorities.

The bulk of the records were created between 1944 and 1949, and deals primarily with the occupation of Germany, the problems of Austria, inter-Allied relations, economic and financial questions, legal and political affairs, and reparations. Included are files on external assets, reparations, restitution, restitution claims, and claims against Germany.
Boxes 1-5 location 250/46/2/04


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