Records of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)--Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 331) [Theaters of Operations Records]


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The Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was established on February 13, 1944, as an integrated U.S.-British organization responsible to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. On July 14, 1945, SHAEF was discontinued, and its civil-affairs and military government functions were assumed by the Allied Group Control Council, in Berlin.

Records of SHAEF General Staff Organizations

Records of the Office of the Chief of Staff

Records of the Secretary, General Staff (SGS)

Decimal Correspondence File May 1943-August 1945 (Entry 1)
   
                Boxes 1-103
        Box #  Decimal #  File Title or Subject
        1  000.4  Preservation of Historical Monuments, Art Objects, etc.
            000.5  War Crimes, Acts of
            000.5/2  War Criminals, Individuals and Groups location: 290/7/2/01
        6  014.1  Civil Affairs (4 files) location: 290/7/2/01
        88-89  Refugees and Displaced Persons (5 files) location: 290/7/3/06
       
Geographic Correspondence File 1943-July 1945 (Entry 2)

        Boxes 104-121
        Box #  Country  Decimal#  File Title or Subject
        121  Spain  092  Spanish Relations, Vol. I, June 1944-
            Sweden  091  Sweden, Vol. I June 8, 1944-
            Sweden  092  Swedish Relations, Vol. I September 1944-
            Switzerland 091  Swiss Relations, Vol. I September 1944-
            Switzerland 091/1  Swiss Observers, Vol. I September 1944-
            Switzerland 373.5  Violations of Swiss Neutrality, Vol. I, May    1944 location: 290/7/4/04

Records of the G-1 Division

Decimal Correspondence File 1944-1945 (Entry 6)

        Boxes 1-45
        Box #  Decimal #  File Title or Subject
        1  000.4-1  Preservation of Archives
            000.4-2  Prohibition of Sale of Export Work of Art in Germany
location: 290/7/4/06
        1-2  War Crimes location: 290/7/4/06
        4  007  Fine Arts location: 290/7/4/06
        5  091.112-5  Officials-Swiss location: 290/7/4/06
        11  250/2-1  General
            250/2-2  Control of Looting in Germany
            250/2-10  Investigation of Alleged Looting by American Soldiers in  Vicinity of Nismegens, Holland location: 290/7/4/07
        24  383.2/1-5  Disposal of German Public Officials in Neutral Countries
            383.4  Handling of Allied and Neutral Nationals Who Collaborated
            383.4-11  Swiss Nationals  location: 290/7/5/02
        29  383.7  Refugees and Displaced Persons (13 files)
            383.7/1  UNRRA (2 files) location: 290/7/5/03

Records of the G-2 Division

Executive Sub-Division Decimal File 1944-July 1945 (Entry 11)

        Boxes 1-8
        Box #  Decimal #  File Title or Subject
        1  000.4  Preservation of Archives
            091  Spain
            091  Sweden
            091.31  Swiss Aid to Germany (1944-1945)
            092-3  Political Intelligence location: 290/7/6/03

Operational Intelligence Library Publication File 1942-1945 (Entry 13A)

        Boxes 50-61
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        53  Foreign Workers in Camp and Hostilities in Germany
                                location: 290/7/7/04
        59  Directory of Public Personalities in Germany Life-Rhineland and  Westphalia-Banking location: 290/7/7/04

Records of the G-5 Division

Records of the Secretariat

Numeric File August 1943-July 1945 (Entry 47)

        Boxes 1-65
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        1  1/13  Financial Branch Folder FINANCIAL - GERMANY-  DISCOVERIES OF GOLD AND OTHER VALUABLES  contains numerous documents dated April, May, and June,  1945. location: 290/7/20/07
        4  21/4  Blocking (Freezing) and Property Control
            51  Displaced Persons location: 290/7/2/01
        18-19  751  Public Monuments and Fine Arts location: 290/7/21/03
        20-21  751/1  Museum, Fine Arts and Archives Operations Reports
location: 290/7/21/03
        21  751/3/1  SHAEF Official Lists
            751/3  Museum, Fine Arts and Archives Lists
            751/4  MFA&A Archives
            751/3/2  Lists-Misc.
            751/2/21  Repositories-Germany location: 290/7/21/03
        30  853  Vichy Officials
            856  Enemy Atrocities
            858  Protection of Private Property
            904/3  Public Safety Planning-Concentration Camps
location: 290/7/21/04
        Legal Branch
        35  1802  Claims
            1816  War Criminals location: 290/7/21/05
        Displaced Persons Branch
        47  France (2 files) location: 290/7/21/07
        48  France (3 files)
Belgium (4 files)
Netherlands (2 files) location: 290/7/21/07
        49  Netherlands (2 files)
Norway (3 files)
Denmark (2 files)
Poland (2 files)
USSR (3 files) location: 290/7/21/07
        50  2707/6  USSR-PW
Czechoslovakia (3 files)
Jugoslavia (2 files)
Italy (3 files)
Germany (5 files)
            2711/7  Germany-Concentration Camps
            2711/7.1  21 AG[Army Group]-Bergen-Belsen
            2711/7.2  12 AG{army Group]-Mauthausen
            2711/7.21  Buchenwald
            2711/7.3  6 AG [Army Group]-Dachau location: 290/7/21/07
        51  2711/7.4  SAARF
Luxembourg (2 files)
            2713  Channel Islands
            2715  Greece
            2717  Austria
            2718  Sweden
            2719  Baltic States location: 290/7/21/07
        51-52  UNRRA (12 files) location: 290/7/21/07
        56  2840  Persecuted Persons
            2843  Foreign Workers in Germany
            2847  TODT Workers
            2852  Racial and Political Prisoners location: 290/7/22/01
        58  Field Reports (5 files) location: 290/7/22/01
        Information Branch
        65  4693  Intelligence-G-5 Weekly Journal of Information
            4694  Intelligence-G-5 Political Intelligence Newsletter
location: 290/7/22/02

Subject Files 1944-July 1945 (Entry 48)

        Boxes 66-72
        Box #  File Title
        67  Handbooks- Archives - West Germany location: 290/7/22/03
        72  Weekly Information Bulletin
            Weekly Progress Reports
            Weekly Summaries
            Weekly Field Reports
            Weekly CA [Civil Affairs] Summaries location: 290/7/22/04 
Records of the Economics Branch

Subject File April 1944-July 1945 (Entry 49)

        Boxes 73-94
        Box #  File Title
        78  Displaced Persons location: 290/7/22/04
        82  Handbooks (Germany)-Fianncial and Property Control
                location: 290/7/22/05
        87  Misc. MFA&A Personnel Correspondence location: 290/7/22/05
        91  Refugees and Displaced Persons location: 290/7/22/06
        93  Supplies---Swiss and Spain location: 290/7/22/06
        94  UNRRA location: 290/7/22/06

Records of the Information Branch, Historical Section

Subject Index to Entry 54 (Entry 51)

        Arranged alphabetically by subject. Boxes 1-15 location: 290/7/22/07

Numeric-Subject Planning File 1943-July 1945 (Entry 53)

        Boxes 95-108 location: 290/7/23/02
        Box #  File #  File Title
        102  15.13  Displaced Persons Section
            15.14  Arts, Monuments and Archives location: 290/7/23/03
        106  23  UNRRA location: 290/7/23/03

Numeric-Subject Operations File 1943-July 1945 (Entry 54)

        Boxes 109-321
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        110  6  UNRRA location: 290/7/23/04
        165  17.6  Historical Report, dated April 1945, under headings  FINANCE and MONUMENTS, FINE ARTS AND  ARCHIVES pp. 21-43--deals with recovery of Gold  and Art work. (Jacket #10) location: 290/7/24/05
        195  25  German Documents location: 290/7/25/02
        198-199  31.06  US Group Control Council-Museum, Fine Arts and  Archives Branch location: 290/7/25/03
        207  51.05  List of Archives-Berlin location: 290/7/25/04
        209  51.05  Basic Handbook, Part II, Nazi Europe
location: 290/7/25/04
        218-219  105  G-5 Reports and Summaries of Field Operations
location: 290/7/25/06
        219  105  "G-5 Functions in ETOUSA Operations: Merkers-  Herringen-Frankfurt Areas in Germany 9 April to 22  April 1945, dated 26 April 1945. This file contains  several reports on the discovery and disposition of  gold and other valuables discovered in Germany by  the U.S. Army in April 1945
                111  Displaced Persons Branch . location: 290/7/25/06
        220  Displaced Persons (files on Denmark, France, Germany,  Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Norway)
location: 290/7/25/06
        221  111.21 Displaced Persons Report
                111.21 Displaced Persons Directives and Instructions
location: 290/7/25/06
        224  113.05 Fianncial Branch-Germany
                113.05 Fianncial Branch-Germany (Special File)
location: 290/7/25/06
        272  130  Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives location: 290/7/26/06
        273  130  MFA&A-Italy
                130.04 MFA&A-Monuments
                130.05 MFA&A-Germany
                130.21 MFA&A-Reports
                130.22 MFA&A-Directives and Instructions location: 290/7/26/06
        299-313  European Civil Affairs Division location: 290/7/27/03
        314-315  War Office Civil Affairs Directorate location: 290/7/27/05
        315-321  Civil Affairs Groups location: 290/7/27/05

Records of the Operations Branch, Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section

Subject File August 1943-1945 (Entry 55B)

        Boxes 322-336 location: 290/7/27/06
        Box #  File Titles or Subjects
        322  Administration (4 folders)
                Administration-War Diary
                Archives (7 folders)
                Reports-Special
                U.S. Army B location: 290/7/27/06
        323  The Renders Collection-Brussels
                Censorship Submissions
                Correspondence (2 folders)
                Communication Zone U.S. Army (2 folders)
                12th Army Group
                12th Army Group Correspondence
                15th U.S.Army
                Art Protection-Miscellaneous
                Art Protection-Enemy location: 290/7/27/06
        324  Correspondence location: 290/7/27/07
        325  Intelligence-Repositories-Germany (2 folders)
                Intelligence-Repositories-Other Countries
                Intelligence-General
                Looting-Einsatzstab Rosenberg location: 290/7/27/07
        326  Looting-France
                Looting-France-Fench Restitution Committee (2 folders)
                MFA&A List-Misc. location: 290/7/27/07
        327  Looting-France-Fench Restitution Committee and D.G.E.R.
                MFA&A Intelligence-Official List of Monuments (2 folders)
                List of Repositories-France
                Looting-Belgium and Netherlands
                Looting-Goudstikker Collection
                Looting-General
                Looting-Italy
                Looting-Schloss Collection
                Looting-Miscellaneous
                Lectures location: 290/7/27/07
        328  Maps
                SHAEF Mission-Belgium
                SHAEF Mission-France
                SHAEF Mission-Luxembourg
                SHAEF Mission-Norway
                SHAEF Mission-Netherlands location: 290/7/27/07
        329  MFA&A Official Lists (2 folders)
                MFA&A Personnel-Enemy
                MFA&A Organization (4 folders) location: 290/7/27/07
        330  MFA&A Personnel-Enemy
                MFA&A Personnel-Miscellaneous
                MFA&A Personnel-General
                MFA&A Personnel-Officers-British (Personal Histories)
                MFA&A Personnel-Officers-British-General
                MFA&A Personnel-Officers-U.S.-General
                MFA&A Personnel-Officers-U.S. (Personal Histories)
                MFA&A Personnel-OR/EM
                MFA&A Personnel-French location: 290/7/27/07
        331-332  Policy and Procedures location: 290/7/28/01
        332  P/W and Civilian Interrogations
                Posters
                Proclamations
                Public Relations-General
                Public Relations-Press Clippings
                Public Relations-Enemy Releases
                Publications
                Public Monuments, Arts and Archives (2 folders)
location: 290/7/28/01
        333-336  Reports location: 290/7/28/01
        336  Supplies (4 folders)
                Technical Instructions
                ETO Office Working File Index (SHAEF) location: 290/7/28/01

Records of the Adjutant General's Division

War Diaries (Entry 58)

        G-5 Division War Diaries
        Boxes 51-60 January-June 1945 contain references to looted gold, etc.
        location: 290/7/33/06

Records of the Executive Section

Decimal File (Entry 56)

        Decimal File 1945
        Box 190 Decimal 386 Property Rights location: 290/7/31/07


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