Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917- (RG 407) [The War Department and the Army Records]


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During World War II the Adjutant General's Office provided, in War Department headquarters and at the major echelons in the Army, several administrative services.

Records of the Administrative Services Division

Records of the Operations Branch

Index to Occupied Area Reports (Entry 368)
   
                Boxes 1-3 location: 270/69/22/07

Foreign (Occupied) Area Reports 1945-1954 (Entry 368B)

        Boxes 998-2304  location: 270/69/23/01
        Box 1018A  location: 270/B/22/04
        Box 1106A  location: 270/B/22/04
        Box and folder lists are available for Boxes 1000-1099 (all pertain to Germany),  1116-2304. Only a small sampling of files are listed below.

        Box #  File Title or Subject
        1005  Displaced persons
        1013  Robert Bosch GmbH (external assets-Germany)
        1018-1020  External assets
        1020  German Economic Interests in Portugal
                                Report on German properties in Japan
                Report on August von Finck
        1021-1022  External Assets
        1022  Progress Report on Investigation of bix Six Banks December 1945
        1023  Robert Bosch, GmbH
        1024  Camouflaging of German External Assets
                DeGussa-Kertess & Chemical Markt. Co.
        1025  External Assets
        1026  External Assets-Deutsche Gold und Silber Scheideanstalten  Dresdner Bank Investigation 
        1027-1028  External Assets
        1028  Interests and activities in Argentina
        1028-1030  Report on the Investigation of the Deutsche Bank
        1030-1031  External Assets - I.G. Farben
        1031  Value of Gold and Silver Bullion and Coin held by Commanding  General, USFET at the Reichsbank Building in Frankfurt,  Volume I Report 19 August 1945 (50 pages) Volumes II and  III are located in Box 1034.
        1031-1032  External Assets
        1032  Ford Werke AG Report (ca. 500 pages)
        1033  External Assets, Hermann Goering
                External Assets of Hermann Goering. Contains several Safehaven  reports
                The Hidden Gold-Reserve program Initiated by the German  Reichsbank during Schacht's Second Term in Office (50  pages)
                Report on the Gold of the National Bank of Bohemia and Moravia
                Report on the Gold of the Sparkasse Luxembourg
        1034  External Assets- Value of Gold and Silver Bullion and Coin held by  CG
                Report on Gold of the Banca d'Italia taken to Germany and  subsequently entered on the books of the German Reichsbank
        1035-1036  External Assets
                External Assets of Heinrich Himmler
        1037-1043  External Assets
        1043  Ribbentrop{Note 1} Investigation
                Precious Metal, prepared 8-9 February 1945 by Reichsbank  Hauptkasse in Berlin for evacuation to mine in Merkers (9  pages)
                Report on Recovery of Reichsbank Precious Metals
                External Assets of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security  Office) (ca. 60 pages)
        1044  External Assets
                SS Loot and the Reichsbank. report 30 October 1945
                External Assets of Walter Schellenberg
        1045-1049  External Assets
        1049  Report on the Investigation of Dr. Kurt Schmitt
        1050-1051  External Assets
        1054  German Banks
                Dresdner and Deutsch Banks Special Report June 1947
                Status of the Banks in the U.S. Zone Special Report April 1946
                "German Banking Penetration in Continental Europe" Preliminary  Draft of Report by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal  Reserve Bank of New York, September 1944
        1124-1129  Reparations and Restitution
        1129  Interrogation of and Reports about Hjalmar Schacht
        1248-1304  I.G. Farben, including its American and Swiss connections
        1402-1404  Nazi Party Membership Records (A-Y)
        1412  Displaced Persons in Austria
        1432  Austria-Reparations and Restitution
        1442  Austria-Displaced Persons
        1451  Austria-Reparations and Restitution
        1486-1499  Army Service Forces Handbooks (Countries A-Y)
        1502-1503  Navy Civil Affairs Handbooks re War Refugee Board with  separate handbooks on Cooperation with Spain, Turkey,  Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden, Latin America; and other  handbooks on refugee activities in various countries
        1515  Latin America-Axis Espionage and Propaganda
        1518  Displaced Persons-Poland
        1613-1618  Department of State Bulletins


Footnotes

{1}Return to text Joachim von Ribbentrop served as German Foreign Minister from February 4, 1938, until the end of the war.


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