Records of the Office of the Adjutant General (RG 260) [Theaters of Operations Records]


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Records Created by the Office of the Adjutant General

General Correspondence and Other Records ("Decimal File") 1945-1949

                Boxes 1-115   1945-1946 location: 390/40/19/03
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        1945-1946 Boxes
        2-4  000.5  War Crimes, Criminals, and Trials location: 390/40/19/03 
        8  004.2  Banks and Banking (3 folders) Among them is "Report: SS{Note 1} Loot    and the Reichsbank" by Col. Bernard Bernstein, {Note 2} October 30,    1945 location: 390/40/19/04
        9  007  Fine Arts, Archives, Museums, Cultural Objects
location: 390/40/19/04
        33  100  Disposition of Foreign Securities (Gold)
                        100  Currency in Germany
            100  Finance and Accounting-Germany (German Financial System,  Reform, Liquidation of War Finance, etc.)
location: 390/40/20/01
        34  123  Currency Control Regulations and Books location: 390/40/20/01
        35  123.7  Exchange of Foreign Currency (Rate of Exchange)
location: 390/40/20/01
        80  334  Investigation of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft
location: 390/40/20/07
        82  334  German External Assets Property Commission
location: 390/40/21/01
        85  350.09  Intelligence Reports location: 390/40/21/01
        89  370.2  Operation Paperclip location: 390/40/21/02
        91-92  383.7  Displaced Persons, Refugees  location: 390/40/21/02
        93-94  386  Property Rights Involved in War location: 390/40/21/02
        95  386.7  Foreign Assets in Germany
            386.7  German External Assets
            386.7  German External Assets in Other Countries (2 folders)
            386.7  Property Control location: 390/40/21/03 
        110  602.3  Restitution (Policy) location: 390/40/21/05
        111  602.3  Restitution (Policy)
            602.3  Restitution (Policy) (Disposition of Gold, Foreign Exchange,  Securities)
            602.3  Reparations (Policy) location: 390/40/21/05

        Boxes 116-323 1947 location: 390/40/21/06
        1947 Boxes
        118-119  000.5  War Crimes location: 390/40/21/06
        129  00.7  Fine Arts (2 folders) location: 390/40/21/07
        288-289  386.7  Frozen Assets, Including Funds location: 390/40/25/02
        289  386.7  Documents to Alien Property Custodian Section
location: 390/40/25/03
        315-317  602.3  Restitution location: 390/40/25/06
        317-318  602.3  Reparations location: 390/40/25/07
        Boxes 324-515 1948 location: 390/40/26/01
        1948 Boxes
        344  00.7  Art, Museums, and Archives (2 folders)
location: 390/40/26/04
        508-510  602.3  Reparations location: 390/40/29/06
        510-512  602.3  Restitution location: 390/40/29/06
        Boxes 516-612 1949 location: 390/40/29/07
        1949 Boxes
        523  00.7  Art, Museums, and Archives (2 folders)
location: 390/40/30/01
        606-607  602.3  Reparations  location: 390/40/31/06
        607-608  602.3  Restitution  location: 390/40/31/06

Formerly Security-Classified General Correspondence and Other Records ("Classified  Decimal File") 1945-1949

        Boxes 613-632 location: 390/40/31/07
        Box #  File #  File Title and/or Subject
        613  004.2  Banks and Banking. Includes information pertaining  to looted Belgian gold sent to the Swiss  National Bank. location: 390/40/31/07
        632  602.3  Restitution location: 390/40/32/03


Footnotes

{1}Return to text The SS (Schutztaffel), protection squads formed in 1925, became the personal bodyguard of Adolf Hitler and grew into the mot powerful organization within the Nazi party and the Nazi State under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler.

{2}Return to text Bernstein served until 1942 in the Treasury Department. He then was commissioned into the U.S. Army at the urging of the Secretary of the Treasury. He would eventually serve as the chief of the Finance Section of SHAEF G-5 and with OMGUS as the Director of the Division of Decartilization and External Assets.


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