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[Gold-Related Notes] [5]
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- confiscated during the Nazi '. regime in Germany and Austria. Problem , " and various solutions are described. 16 - ,,\./, pages 6/44 'fl.) L} c ,~ :0~ X ~ ~ .:.0 ~ CO UJ N "'- f'J G' ()'\ () Lj VJ ., ',.' hL-9 f-0YJ .9 J ~s: 0
Chronology
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- A command-wide curfew is established by,uSAREUR. 31 August The U.S. Displaced Persons Act' of 1948 expires and, the U.S. Displaced Persons Commission ceases operations., 6 - 8 September Exercise ROSEBUSH, first of a series of NATO maneuvers in Germany
[Gold-Related Notes] [6]
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- R'elationship between NATO and Global Planning. JSPC (December 8, 1950) 4 pp. ' 0887 Contribution of Germany to Western European Defense. JCS (December 15, 1950) 4 pp . ' " .. ApPOintment of Supreme Alhed Commander, AtlantiC, and Defml tion of His Missions
- . Brentano, Heinrich von'(1904-1964) - Foreign Minister of the Federal German Republic. Official and personal relations with JFD; the reunification of Germany (roll-back); relations with the USSR; a detailed discussion of the EDC negotiations; NATO
- and accountability. giants had plants in Germany, established Since the Swiss settlement there has before the war, which flourished under the been a rush for restitution. Some lawyers Nazi regime and continued operations even' see it as an opportunity of a lifetime
- Depository t I ~FC Foreign Funds Control (Treasury Department) I ~RB-NY Federal Reserve Bank - New York I GEPC German External Property Connnission I I NICOG I I ~ARA ! I lARA , I High Connnissioner for Germany (u. S.) Inter Allied
- WITH ,A VIEW TO . :'j • REOOMDJ.~ BE CHAlumo FOR. COAL mOM THIS AREA PD ANY AGREEMENT BT . ALLOW FOOEIGNEBS TO ENTER GERMANY IN ORDER TO EOONOMIC POLICIES TO BE IiVlPOOED UPON THE~G'" ,• UPON Ol.ffi ENTIRE' PROG.RAM OF TURNING OVER 1£ ,. PD Mo.bEOIlER CM
- . This meant "~truggling" (the veri) kiimpfen was un Betweer 1933, when- Hitler seized power, and 1941, an l estimated 500,000 people flooded out of Germany, Austria, doubtedly the most important word in the Nazi vocabulary) against "cultural: modernism
Reports [2]
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- -standing financial linkages between· Germany and Switzerland. Moreover, the large profits earned in hiding property attracted many into the field, thereby greatly enhancing and enlarging the laundering system. Jews arid other persecuted Germans, as well
- llay21,1941~ with Special Agent' L. A. LBngille'oi' the NeW York DiVi"si6n, VON CLEW stated" t.llat he was bom 9-Z7~1S97, 'at MB.1rie,. Germany. He married·VERONIC).:,:GREEN on 3-15-32, and now lives at Sjosset,'L. I. with his wife and two children. ' His
Articles - August 1999 [2]
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- camp survivors DUring the Third Reich, IG a fund to be distributed to rejected ~he move at a tense Farben 'Germany's most Auschwitz survivors. They shareholders' meeting. important in~ustrial asset, also want an investigation . Sharehoider activists
- of Jewish material. First, "Jewish Libraries, within Germany (practically all in the Hebrew language): 11,660, while the number of "identifiable Jewish libraries of various Eastern countries (practically all in Hebrew)" stood at 207,096. 3 The most complete
[Gold-Related Notes] [14]
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- , they are digging out a great deal of information about businessmen both large and small around the world who profited by trading with Nazi Germany. This also applies to big American corporations like Ford, ITT and Standard Oil, although there was supposed
Articles - July 1999 [1]
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- the auspices of the' U.S. and German governments. . I . . The negotiators are trying to resolve claims that Germany's banks and industrial companies profited from Nazi WlU" crimes, from looting Jelish assets to using slave labor. In return for paying
Survivors - Schloss, Henry
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- declared war on Germany, on August 4. On April 6, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany and sent combat troops to France Germany was defeated and on October 1918, asked for armistice, the hostilities ceas on November 11, 1918. A:s a consequence, German
Grimsted
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- Ewopean History 6. no"I (1997): 2~74. , Plulllemsol~ ¥liL4S. no. 3.MayfJune 1998, pP. 3-16. 01898 M.E. SIIarpe.1nc. AllrigIIIIl8SeMId. ISSH 11J75.8216/189811.50 +0.00. lthough overshadowed by NATO expansion, the . matter ofNazi-looted art and archives
- of attorney and letters of recommendation may be based the fact that the situation in Germany is not well known there [in Pal·estll1f!J, and that every idea is welcomed which could conceivably lead to a capital ... by emigrants, thus facilitating
Articles - July 1999 [2]
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- . official negotiating with Germany to create'a multibillion-dollar compensation fund for Holocaust victifus on Wednesday said differences had been narrowed, which means it is possible a symbolically imnortant September 1 deadline will be met. "I think. we
Reports [3]
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- individuals, organizationS, and governments such as Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and other nations, as well as providing a comprehensive bibliography of print and electronic sources .. A list of private and governmental organizations
Articles - June 1999 [2]
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- suit seeking damages from . '. I Germany. But t~e State Department fought him, arguing for German immunity. It wasn't until I ?95, after several members of Congress took up Princz's cause, that the State Department brokered a settlement with I Germany
Articles - December 1999 [2]
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- spend~rs to auction Labor: • U.S. envoy asks for calm in Nazi fqrced labor lawsuits I U.S. Holocaust Lawyers Work on Counteroffer I Germany Says Further Nazi Labor I Ta~ks possible I NYT: Schroeder Dismisses Demands t~ Enlarge Fund for Nazi
- hard currenc~. , We have·learned how neutral countries supplied crucial raw material::? to GJrmany which sustained the Nazi war machine. We have discovered new details about how the Nazis forced some 12 miliion workers, deported to Germany from
Reports [1]
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- art and book collector, nor his interrogators had any idea of what was transpiring across Germany i.n regards to German libraries and publishing finns. Nazi Germany had received thousands of , dollars for book orders which bAd gone unfilled when war
Articles - January 2000 [1]
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- to . Roniania in 1997. . I ! The'3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision. Cans to Schiffer'S attorney were not r~turned. Schiffer was an armed guard on labor details in the Sachsenhausen and Hersbruck concentration camps in Germany
- everything'I can "to obtain ,justice and recover mYfamily,J legacy. I would hope ,that a country clearly wishing to be apart of Mr. Chairman, I I I', theW"st -- HUng~J isa meinber of NATO and is se:king membership in theEuropean
- -'?.:-~-::.r:----------------,L'! • 1. 1191 (____________________________) DATED ___~9_!.:___ E_'___ J:2!?~_______ I NAME 1-1121 ... REGARDING: P2'o'blem of the transfer from Germany of some substantia.l pa.rt of the assets ot' involuntary emigra.ntsb
Art - Various Articles [1]
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- the companies have proposed. The Government had hoped to reach a full agreement by Sept. 1. but many participants said a deal is still months away. Negotiators will meet again on Sept. 6. GERMANY: SLAVE TALKS ADJOURN For A Edmund L. Andrews (NYT) Dates: FRI
- in such a way as to make investigation possible, that name was lrlc1uded on a list, and the list was $cnt to Germany for investigation. The invcstisators wert.' instructed to look at birth records, land records, the church or .Jewish community records
Eizenstat, Stuart
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- in World War II in dealing with Nazi Germany and German-looted assets and their responsibility to do justice to Holocaust survivors and their families. The finn actions of the United States and NATO in Kosovo are motivated, in part, by the i unwillingness
Articles - March 2000 [2]
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- . . . I I 3 BASF says giving 100 min dmk to Nazi! slave fund 03/15/00 I i- LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, March 15 (Reuters) Europe's largest chemicals maker BASF AG said on Wednesday
[Rodgers, Erin - Notes] [7]
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- Services Board of Contract Appeals • 335.11.5 Records of the Army Civilian Legal Personnel Committee _ . (( 335.1 ] .6 Records of the Committee to Review Decartelization Policy in Germany • 335.11.7 Records of the Army Advisory Board on Government
Articles - June 2000
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- .. Katherine Page From: Sent: . Katherine Page Thursday, June 01, 2000 3:41 PM Slave Labor u.s., Germany Start Nazi Slave Talks After Delay Clinton walks into Holocaust row on eve of fund signing Jewish Victims of 'Aryanization' and Slave Labor
Articles - October 1999 [4]
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- the names ~f more than 100,000 Jews who lived in Germany I prior to the war, which Coope~ said will be completed within three months. I The site, located at www.l:ivingheirs.com. contains step-by-step instructions on how to determine if you are a relative
- ~:-;EtircJ:':t):"E~Ii'desires for way, or, the' Benelux countries. ~n Western '~ ,pOsition ,of Germany, the'leading champions of neutrality are groups oHcirmer dip~om~ts, militarists, in ; -it.is neces tellectuals, ,and representatives of special in
- be : (a) To request the submission of, and to receive from Gove~nts claiming the right to participate in the division of monetaIy goldfou.'"ld . in Germany or which Tf~y be recovered from a third. country to mich it was transferred from Germany, claims
- . It was deolded to postpone the 4eoll1.on I " until the attitude of th8 military authorltle. in Germany toward " '. " OUl' generaldeDumds on the reatiw.t1on law betlome knOwn. A aecoild meetlDgwtll ta.keplaoe on FridAY', OotobeJ" 25. WJ C. c &.-'10
Lithuania - Reports [5]
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- suteikia ypatingCl. reiksm« prasidedanCiam glaudziam Istorines komisijos ir aukstQ.jQ. mokyklQ. bendradarbiavimui. Kitas pavyzdys,.I sulauk«s didelio Danijos kariskiu susidomejimo, kaip nauja iniciatyva net NATO saliQ.: kariuomenems - tai numatomas
Lithuania - Reports [3]
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- August, the Seimas hosted the conference "1939 Secret Deals between the , Soviet Union,and Germany and theirConseq'uences to the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe" organised by the Genocide and Resistance Research , Centre of Lithuania where
- , aMiss VirginiCi Meekison, in the. State Depart ment, Room 305, State Annex 10, . is doing some .work on restitution, etc. problems in Germany, in co~ection with a court case in which the Department is apparently being sued•. She wanted copies
Articles - May 2000 [2]
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- ~ U.S., Germany tackle details oniNazi victims' fund Insurance Swiss insurers to pay $50 min for Holocaust claims My Father's Name Is on the List' Other Restitution Polish Jews demand WJRO help to reclaim property Swiss OK Humanitarian Fund Gold
- results. : . . I ! i PART ONE: BRIEF HISTORY OF OCCUJPATION AND LIBERATION 1- The partition of France into three systems of sovereignty from 1940 to 1944 . ' I In 1940-1944, the main sovereign of c~:mtinenta1 France is Nazi Germany. Northern Zone
Articles - August 1999 [1]
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- Republic, 58 from Germany, two from Greece, 35 from Hungary, one from Italy, 56 from Poland, 17 from Romania, four from Slovakia and five from Yugoslavia. . "Many of these are people who have been rejected in past, either because they didn't have policies
- 600,000 Hungarian jews were exterminated in Nazi death camps in Germany arid today's Poland, shot.and,dumped in the Danube river in Budapest or killep. in forced labour elsewhere. est/gj LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: October 24, 1999
Gold Team - Reports [2]
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- lierades krav amel!1kansm regeringarna ha enligt uppgift regeringen, att "officiell" (liven termen tysk agend,om, som finnes i Sverige, skall .'!" krav ej rests, Skalet hartill nam 'Reparations from Germany": all claims in respect German
Policy Papers [4]
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- forced laborers during the War live in the United States. These issues have great significance to them. Our policy on Holocaust issues also serves important U.S. foreign policy interests, such as maintaining close relations with Germany, a partner of ours
- wanted to go 'to I Germany tor business' reasons and that he expeoteq. to Jl1Ilke some money as a ~,~:sul t of the trip ana would. therefore. be willing to pay tor papers enabliDg\:him to oro,s the Gerll8ll border.. Subjeot aSked Informant if he
- -0) Luncheon Tendered to Ma.jorRym,an. Last Jewish Advisor in Germany: On JQ.ne 6. a. luncheon was tendered to Major Abraham Hyman, the last Acting Jewish Advisor in Germany and a. Deputy Jew1shA~visor since 1946~, All the. former Jewish Advisors
- in NARA Record Group 260, notably the Ardelia Hall collection. (Hall was a State Department official who headed the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section of the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S. Zone), which section dealt
- ,-4.J_ S,7,S, ,. fJ,-f/O ,. • 30-500, 24 Jan 44, ."/c 1 by CG, NATO and is assigned NATO ers, Pen1nsul~rBa$e Sectlon~ P.rsonnel from ele Detachment5 (Provisional): 6784, 6785,6786, & 678 Personnel of unit organ1~ed pro~.ionally ~ wl11 be transferred
- ' ...., ' .... ) CABLES:.. . . "JDINTDISCO" NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY, Inc. Suite 800 270 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y. TELEPHONE: LExington 2-5200 President NAHUM GOLDMANN SeT/ior Pice-President May 28,. 1954 JACOB
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- , on which artistic and historic monu ments and cultural deposits had been located and described in accompanying lists. Lists and Handbooks were also prepared and distrib uted to the military theaters for the use of Germany. With the Office of Strategic
- that you left in safekeeping in the Netherlands before coming to the 11ni ted States. You inquire \vhether it would be possible to begin, an il'lVGstlgation to determine whether. your gold 1$ inqluded in that recovered by our military forces in Germany
- ,lIetioil.· " . ':~ -' . ,,:" 4, - (:). m I .-. I " C ro .-:J a ~ ~. B];lPearS Oll Germany . rrJ ~I~\~ ~ mar~etesrs. who ~ si gnature . . l-- " ' .: .'~ 1 " . certificates,. ' , ; ~ ~ 1 -~~ 1 ;,- .L,Stocketf .boak (120 •.9
- , the proceeds to he used to pay private debts and pub lic reparations, and charging Germany with the obligation of reim bursing her expropriated nationals. 26 Referring to this provision, Professor E. M. Borchard remarked: "Thus, at one stroke of the pen
- •.••. Koruna.: ..•...••••.•••. Denmark .... : ••••• Krone... !............... Pound stJjrling. '" .•..•• ~ii.1~~L:::::::::: Markka.:••••..•.••••••• France••........•.. Franc... : .•...••.•.•••.• Germany ......... . Reiehsma'rk............. Oreece
- Abroad . . . . June 30, 1946. THE PRESIDENT, 12 94 2. IV Germany, Austria. C. The Far East . 157 LISTS OF PERSONNEL 161 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 165 ILLUSTRATIONS I~ INDEX 229 v "......-~ ~, PART I i I I· I Introduction: The Creation
- to third countries, in. particular the United ,States. I ' " ,. ',' , ' Since its founding in 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has tried to live up to . ' , . ' its responsibility. AS the first German Chancellor, Koni'a~ Adenauer, said 40' 1
- have been accused of collaborating w . ith the Serbs during the recent ethnic cleansing of the province, and "those who hav~ not fled to Serbia have been severely harassed. A 1994 survey done for the American Jewish Committee in Germany found that 68
Art - Various Articles [2]
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- would fetch about 20 million pounds. "It does show the considerable strength of the European market, particularly in France, Germany and in this country," Christie's chairman Lord Hindlip said. Last month, rival auction house Sotheby's sold a pastel
Articles - May 1999 [1]
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- engineer. say separate Jewish Agency flight that they plan to nod work and perma· carried Serbian Jewish youngsters nent housing after learning Hebrew, who had ned the NATO air attacks to and their daughter, a college student, Hungary. is determined
- Europe but also fostered European unity. so that in the future great wars on the European continent would be inconceivable. We created enduring institutions, military and economic. NATO. the Bretton Woods In stitutions (the IMF and World Bank
B'nai B'rith [2]
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- recently in a letter by the ambassador of 'Germany to Israel, Theodore Wallau, who, writing in Germany's current capacity as president of the European Union, indicated that the EU views the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine still to be in force, at least
- , and some provisional res4lts. - I I PART ONE: BRIEF HISTORY OF OCCUPATION AND LIBERATION 1- The Ilartition of France intl three systems of sovereignty from 1940 to 1244 In 1940-1944, the main soJereign of continental France is Nazi Germany. Northern
- ) in Germany. It would appear inde,ed to concern works of art r~moved from occupied countries. I ' I !hasten toi'oI'V'lard you the information which ''fe have been able l to' ' gather i~ this respect : , I Tne Belgian P/W" Ch. HENRICOT, was working
Articles - October 1999 [2]
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- : WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 BODY: In the last weeks of World War II, as Soviet troops advanced from the east, Nazi officials in Hungary ordered that a train be sent west toward Germany with the collected wealth of Hungary's decimated Jews. Their wedding bands alone
- , the United State~ had formally declared war 9n Germany and Japan. . I " More than 50 years later, it was the same relentless American pursuit of the truth that led to the renewed push for monil reparations for Holocaust victims and their families
- "'; ~\-:--- DECLASSIFIED "'kl~'rofi1y JJLlO~ B'f~2.~ HAM Date42t99 ..... . . ., .....,..._~.--_.,i4 OFFICE OF MILITARY GOVERNMENT FOR GERMANY (US) . JTW/jr Property Division Property Control end Externel Assets Bronch APO 633 Wiesbaden
Insurance - Reports [1]
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- Jews liJing in Germany. The victims had claims under their policies, and after successfully fleeinglBerlin, sought to enforce the terms of their policies from the United States. Thel company, however, declined to honor its obligations and refused
- the Court :su.co.8ao:t U rgw...t1on otaastltut~on aDl2QW!loed 'the following Appeals of the u. s. Zone ot .Germany rendered. a d.eolalon Stating that all ola1ma.ts who talled. to tll•. tAm!r ola.1ml tor reetltutlon under O. S. H. G. Law is before 1
- (Culture and I ' Communication.) Mr. Serge Telle, Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister Germany . Bundeskanzler Gerhardt Schroder Mr. Willi Lemke, :PresidenJ KMK Dr. Albert Spiegel, AA Dr. Stefan Krimm, KMK Dr. Hildegard Vieregg, KMK I Dr. Falk Ping
- " found in the concentration camps then being liberated by our advancing armies. He invited the congressional leaders to make a fiying trip to Germany to see for themselvell "the full evidence of the cruelty practiced by the Nazis in such places I1.S
- ., we extract the following expose on the reparation and indemnification situation with respect to Germany: Reparations from Germany Pursuant to Article VIII of the Paris Agreement on Reparations, an agreement was reached on June 14, 1946
- preoious'stones, wore. elthar. uncoverod in Germany bJ v' ; ,tho 11;1110d Forcen or l'Goe1;v;e4, a~Jrors1gn 'exohange under .M1litary Qovern ment' ~\V 53, and. are now 1Ii, the l~~ustody of tho 10relfpl .&:xohunge Deposltory. lrrnn~urt, lind 1;110 G~rmtU1 ~~d
- to r e linquish vis-a-vis the company. The case of Comos i a a t y p i c a l example of the methods of extortion adopted by Germany i n regard to Auatrian assets. 309006 / ^ DECLASSIFIED File Box ^JM^^m & Sale of Creditanstalt a majority
- Custodian to cover all property in the l)nited States owned by Germany and Japan and their .nationals. In effect this order delegated to the Custodian the power to vest cash, credits; investment sec4rities and other types of property of these. countries
- , establ,ish.commiD'l1Cl11S and ;s'~ilo'it)' to iciCl::lOfy looted. WQi1cs. and. agrecmehIS 10 r~QWu= a.nrJ leMU. An)a.ng"h.is~pti;::r.ity C;OJ.ln~C:lI are.Argenti.a.a.. B,elgium. Bri.ziJ, Germany. Holland. HW1~a.."Y, R!wia, me! SwilZe.d;",n& , I, i
- .. ";: ".: ''', WieaJi:ia.c'ltta . ) Date ~31Mt' . :a;9Si ' . . Saul g&saa ,, . authoriz'ed representativei,;of Jewish Cultural R~construction Inc., hereby acknowledges on beh~lf of JCRlnc. ,fr()IIl. Jhe ,United s.~l:lt~s HighCorpmissioner in Germany. receipt for the it~rns
- +PS,. as " .' an organiza,tion responls~lble fOl.'ACOnorllic ~ndfil"!anc1al work in Germany,. would: tan.i.za.tion o/lder
Extension of Commission Bill
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- Extension Act of 1999 Sixty years ago, more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany left Hamburg, sailing toward what they hoped would be a Jafe haven. Instead, they were barred from entering Cuba and the ship, the St. Louis, turned to~ard the United
- , early inSe,tomber 1952,· of the Luxembourg Agreement between the Conference on Jowish Material Claims Against Germany and tho Federal German Government. The Foreign Office had constantly been kept informed of the progress of the negotiations
- .. OF STAlE, WASHINGTON, D.C. OeiobeJp.. TO S FROM a AMERICAN CONSU1A1E GEliElW., BERtIN, GERMANY SUBJECT , ' 1947 A.MERICAN PROPER71': REFERENCE: I. ;. , !' .~'~e enclose report dated 00110081',16,19'" receivcd from the . j ( Cbief
- ' ; " to"reports from ,MI' CLAYTON'Asst of ,::.fIr CLAYTON states this'gqld is property' German Gove~nment and 1s subject to military s~lzure, he . further states it is policy of this Government· to preven~ gold. exports from GERMANY for numerous reasons 1
- . '. ' TIONAL ARCHIVES i REPRODUCED ATTHE NA .. . I TWX FROM: Foreign Exchange Depository TO Direato~, . • 1. Finance Division Subject is monthly report for November. 2. The first distribution of the monetary gold u.n.coveJ:'ed in Germany
- in . "coiD.~: :were " , dellyared. tQthe. 'Germani Reichsbank were·;(ies.eribed· in the a.Do".~t., it rid.t. possible to trace 59],1 . ',. in1t.1a~ III 8im~1a,i~:\~'?Vch In Washington by, ~.be TreBbury people llrbo had. wor,kect 1 ~n tho an.&ljrsis
[Foreign Funds Control] [1]
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- so MDY 4ireotioDs; this,mall cfose't.o king Carol and at one time worked 'With ,Iron Gll&l'd. llut when youeonsider how he ha.d to maneuver ~o keeppo6i t16n. dOElstlot look'sCI 'bad. ' , ' Ca!!Ht=i'r1 tz Von jOeppel - auto manufacturer - left Germany
- attended by Secretary Dulles, e.g., the annual Spring meetings of the NATO Ministerial Counci~; and (c) bilateraimeetings between Secretary Dulles and, • representatives of foreign powers either in Washingtori or in other capitals. The documents
- "'" . ~u.ou, nato•• ,hAt \b. cheek ..n ... . vtUbe .tepa.it'" 1ft the .000_, 0 t ,he "'Olt. ...,·Dt.IUIIOD4 ':nol. 1:.'4. "Ull 'h. O\\Od A 011040\0". BlUe of the Cuaat_ JaM of Co.,..eroe, VtD4IftJ". Olt.,arto, :0. . . . . DlYlslolt. ·C· :hal learolaa. r
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- . . aotl.... BmntTOr. ~ nato they 41d DOt parU01pa.to 1. tho ~orult .en or &killed 1I'Ortere. 'Oal:, o.bwt We 1mD.dred peraou with their . taall1ea ....ro thu reoruited ULd tbia uol1la1....1y tArough the Rebert C.... C_puy. lilA I ve..: in ooaclud1a, tbat
