Annex XX (Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives) to Basic Preliminary Plan, Allied Control and Occupation of Germany (Control Council Period)

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I. INDEX
I. Index
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II. References
1-5
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III. Assumptions and Definitions
6-13
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IV. Mission
14-15
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Objectives
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Materials
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Actions to be Taken
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Reich ministerial bureaus
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Nazi Party etc.
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MFA&A in US Sector, BERLIN.
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MFA&A in US Zone
23-25
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Works of Art etc.
26-28
8-9
Coordination
29
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VI. Inclosures
1. Reich ministerial bureaus etc.
1-2
2. Agencies of the Nazi Party etc.
1-2
3. Monuments etc. in US Sector, BERLIN.
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II. REFERENCES.
1. US Group CC Planning Directives:
a. No. 34, dated 13 Dec 44, subject: Planning
Program, pars. 2-b and 3-b.
b. No. 2, dated 16 Jan 45, subject: Flexibility
and Completeness of Plans.
2. EAC (US) Draft Directives:
a. No. 2, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Control of Works
of Art and Monuments in GERMANY.
b. No. 4, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Securing and
Examining Information and Archives in GERMANY.
c. No. 12, dated 24 Nov 44, subject: Religious Affairs.
d. Proposed directive, not yet approved, dated 23
Oct 44, subject: Dissolution of the Nazi Party and Purge of Nazi
Personnel.
3. JCS 1067:
a. Appendix A to Inclosure C (Political Directive),
dated 5 Oct 44, pars. 3, 4, 9, and 13.
b. Appendix C to Inclosure C, par. 1-c.
4. US Group CC, Memorandum, dated 29 Jan 45, A/A Deputy,
to MFA&A Branch, subject: Comments on Notes on Points connected
with Planning of MFA&A Branch, US Group CC.
5. MFA&A Branch Memoranda:
a.
dated 23 Oct 44, Plan No. 5: part of the Operational
Plan for the Movement and Operations of a Team from Property
Section, Military Government, Division A, US Group CC.
b. dated 15 Dec 44, subject: Decentralization of
German National Agencies.
C. dated 28 Dec 44, Six Notes on planning, as follows:
(1) MFA&A in BREMEN and BREMERHAVEN.
(2) Control of MFA&A in RHEINHESSEN and PFALZ.
(3) Relation between the Control and Operation
of MFA&A in BERLIN.
(4) Control of Archives in POTSDAM.
(5) Representation of MFA&A on the Advanced
Ministerial Control Group (Germany).
(6) Relation between Planning for Control in the
US Zone and in Military Districts, in con-
nection with MFA&A Operations in GERMANY.
d. dated 13 Jan 45, subject: Dissolution of the Nazi
Party.
e. dated 13 Jan 45, Plan No. 7: Targets, Objectives
and Procedure for MFA&A Officers on an Advanced Ministerial
Control Group in BERLIN.
f. dated 17 Jan 45, subject: Reconstitution of
Reich Ministries and Central Agencies.
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III. ASSUMPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
6. That at the arrival at their targets of the Advanced
Ministerial Control Group there will still be elements of min-
istries and ministerial agencies; and that information relative
to the looting of works of art by the Germans, to the present
location of such loot, and to the nature and destination of
contents of German collections removed for security to remote
deposits, will be so secured.
7. That if the USSR Element of the CC is not the first
to arrive in BERLIN, joint control of MFA&A will be exercised
by the US and UK MFA&A Branches, and that this cooperation
will be similar whether enforced by MFA&A Officers in Advanced
Ministerial Control Teams or as members of the Branches when
established. Control would become tripartite upon the arrival
of the USSR MFA&A representatives. The same result would be
achieved in reverse sequence should the USSR Element of the CC
arrive first in BERLIN.
8. That administrative relations which existed before
occupation between MFA&A in GERMANY at Land/Provinz level and
at Reich Ministerial or other national agencies, including
those of the Prussian State, will be severed.
9. That the transition from Phase I, Control under the
Supreme Commander, AEF, to Phase II, of tripartite control
under the CC, will not seriously affect US participation in the
control of MFA&A in GERMANY. The development from Advanced to
Full Ministerial Control will depend upon the augmentation of
personnel in BERLIN.
10. That a decision will be received from the Allied
governments (ref. 3-b) whether and to what extent German
resources in works of art and other cultural materials will be
used for reparation to any of the Allied countries, beyond
their use for restitution, or restitution in kind (par. 4, ref.
2-a).
11. That the absolute limitation of qualified US personnel
in the highly restricted field of MFA&A operations will make
unusual demands for consultation and advice, at Zone and Military
District levels, upon the US personnel of the Control Staff.
12. That MFA&A control and operations in GERMANY will
require:
a. Two years from completion of occupation for
reconstitution of the German administration of MFA&A and the
imposition of control on works of art and other cultural
materials to a point where MFA&A Officers may largely be with-
drawn from the Military Government District level and concen-
trated in MFA&A Branch, US Group CC.
b. Five years from the completion of occupation for
the completion of the mission of MFA&A in GERMANY.
13. Definitions.
a. The phrase "works of art and other cultural
máterials" covers all objects or materials of artistic, historic,
scientific or other cultural importance or value. The phrase
includes archives, records or documents of historic or cultural
importance. and scientific exhibits, specimens or equipment of a
research or educational character or pertaining to cultural
history, so far as such archives and scientific materials are
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13. (Cont'd)
b.
The ward "archives" covers all records, books,
documents, papers, files and other data belonging to the State
or any agency of government in GERMANY, whether central,
regional or local, or belonging to the Nazi Party or any of
its auxiliary organs, or belonging to financial, industrial and
commercial institutions and individuals engaged in foreign com-
mercial or financial activities.
IV. MISSION OF THE MFA&A BRANCH.
14. The US objectives of ministerial control with respect
to MFA&A in GERMANY are to carry out the policies of the US
Delegation to the European Advisory Commission:
a.
To protect monuments, objects, and institutions
in GERMANY which are of permanent importance in the cultural
heritage of mankind.
b. To ensure that the Germans do not conceal, remove,
or export works of art and other cultural materials immediately
available for Restitution by item or in kind, or subsequently
available on account of Reparations (ref. 3-b).
c. To locate and hold available for eventual restitu-
tion or replacement in kind works of art and cultural material in
GERMANY, both those looted by the Germans and those in their own
public and private collections which might be used on account of
Reparations (pars. 8, 11, and 12 of ref. 2-a; ref. 3-b).
d. To ensure the preservation, administration, and
exploitation of archives, both those of historic value and those
necessary either for the control or for the administration of
GERMANY under Allied Military Government.
e. To ensure that museums, libraries, archives, and
other collections of cultural materials in GERMANY which have
been used as instruments of Nazi propaganda are reoriented in
accordance with the Allied program.
f. To recommend to Public Safety the seizure and
closing of libraries, archives, and similar institutions which
are of Nazi inception or devoted to the perpetuation of German
militarism and to Property Control the holding of their contents
as well as other Nazi symbols and similar objects for eventual
disposition by the CC.
15. US Group CC will, in accordance with US policy (par.
14) control MFA&A in GERMANY with respect to:
a.
Monuments, including buildings and relatively
immovable objects of historic, artistic, or other cultural
importance.
b. Works of art, including collections of, and
individual movable objects of historical, artistic, or other
cultural importance, particularly if they are of high intrinsic
value.
C. Nazi symbols and similar monuments or objects
used for Nazi propaganda.
d. Archives, both historic and contemporary, with
particular reference to their preservation and administration.
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V. ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN.
16. Actions contemplated by US Group CC in accordance with
US policies to establish control of MFA&A in GERMANY may be
considered under five headings:
a. Reich ministerial bureaus and other national
agencies, including those of the Prussian State.
b. Nazi Party and affiliated organizations.
C. MFA&A in the US Sector of BERLIN.
d.
MFA&A in the US Zone so far as administered from
a national or Prussian State level.
e. Control and "freezing" of works of art and other
cultural materials in the US Zone.
17. Control of Reich ministerial bureaus and other national
agencies, including those of the Prussian State, in BERLIN and
elsewhere which are concerned with MFA&A will be imposed initially
by MFA&A Officers on the Advanced Ministerial Control Group. Con-
trol will require actions along the following general lines:
a. To abolish bureaus or agencies of purely Nazi
invention, which will şerve no useful purpose for the control
and administration of MFA&A under CC. Property of abolished
agencies will be taken over by Property Control; their records
will be seized for exploitation and disposi by MFA&A on a
tripartite basis; and their personnel will be dismissed except
in so far as approved, for employment to assist in exploitation
and liquidation.
b. To continue or reconstitute on a skeleton basis
those bureaus or agencies which are necessary for the control
and administration of MFA&A. It should not be immediately
necessary to restaff such agencies on their preoccupation scale;
they may be continued or reconstituted with a minimum approved
operating staff, pending decision of the degree of reconstitution
or decentralization of the Reich and Prussian State administrations
If the maximum degree of decentralization be enforced there are
still two Reich administrations which should not be decentralized:
(1) Reichsarchiv - though its Vienna Branch,
added at the Anschluss, will presumably
pass to the Austrian Allied Commission.
(2) Archaologisches Institut, Zentral direktion
and the Romisch-Germanisch Kommission in
Frankfurt a/M.
For a discussion of decentralization of Reich Agencies in the US
Zone, see below, par. 24-b, 25.
18. A tentative list of Reich ministerial bureaus and
national agencies, including those of the Prussian State con-
cerned with MFA&A and suggestions as to their abolition or
continuance (reconsti tution) is attached as Inclosure 1. This
list includes those previously submitted as part of the Plan for
Advanced Ministerial Control (no. 7, ref. 5-e).
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19. The participation of US MFA&A Branch in the Dissolution
of the Nazi Party and affiliated organizations is discussed, in
accordance with the Draft Directive (ref. 2-d) and JCS 1067
(ref. 3-a), in a memorandum of this Branch on this subject (ref.
5-d). US MFA&A ,articipation is proposed as purely advisory,
looking toward preservation, and ultimate disposition on a
tripartite basis, of:
a. Works of art and other cultural material in Nazi
possession. of which custody is taken by Property Control.
b. The contents of museums of Nazi inception and of
Nazi symbols and similar objects as defined in JCS 1067 (ref.
3-a). Such objects will first be seized by Public Safety
Officers and then pass into custody of Property Control.
C.
Documents, records, and archives. These will
either be seized for removal and exploitation by Intelligence
agencies or will be seized and secured by local Military
Government Detachments.
20. A tentative list of agencies of the Nazi Party and
affiliated organizations in which the US MFA&A Branch might
have a special interest is attached as Inclosure 2.
21. Nazi property and records are peculiarly liable to
loss in the initial occupation, either through deliberate des-
truction or through civilian looting or through souvenir-hunting
by Allied personnel or through hasty exploitation by advanced
Intelligence agencies. Discussions are now in progress in
various interested quarters to formulate measures to minimize
such loss. This Branch will endeavor to follow these discussions
and to formulate its plans in accordance with their results so
as to ensure that the interests of Tripartite CC and of the
Military Government in the US Zone in Phase II are given due
consideration.
22. MFA&A in the US Sector, Berlin Area, initially dealt
with by a MFA&A Officer on the staff of the Berlin District
Commander, will be the concern of the Technical Staff of the
US member of the Kommendatura. Should it later eventuate that
there is not enough work to give one MFA&A officer full-time
employment, his MFA&A functions might well be assigned as an
extra function to another officer on the Kommendatura staff,
but in any case technical channels between this Staff and the
MFA&A Branch should not be blocked. Normal command channels
will be followed in matters of policy. A list of monuments,
museums, libraries, archives and similar cultural institutions
in the US Sector of BERLIN is attached as Inclosure 3.
23. Control of MFA&A in the US Zone will initially be
exercised by US MFA&A Officers under Supreme Hqs, AEF. Control
at the Military Government District (Land/Provinz) level should
be continuous from Phase I into Phase II, in accordance with the
following general policies:
a. Initially to close all monuments not of daily
public use (as churches or town-halls) and cultural institutions
and to maintain only the minimum approved staff necessary for
their protection and upkeep, until other personnel are vetted
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23. (Cont'd)
b. To reopen such buildings as earlý as is consistent
with the security and operation of military government in order
to provide the civilian population with means of entertainment
and instruction. Reopening should take place only under approved
personnel and after exhibits or material of Nazi import have
been removed from public access. Such Nazi materials should
not, however, be destroyed or dissipated but held either for
disposal on a Tripartite basis or eventually to form part of
the historical collections of archives of GERMANY after they
have lost any significance which might make them of propaganda
value against the purposes of Allied control (ref. 3-a, par. 13).
C. To restore such buildings to complete Gérman
administration at Reich or Land/Provinz level, as may be
determined, as soon as such relaxation of Allied control is
consistent with:
(1) The carrying out of an agreed CC policy
for restitution or replacement in kind
of works of art and other cultural materials.
(2) An agreed CC program for the reeducation
of GERMANY.
24. Lists of monuments and cultural institutions in the
Länder/Provinzen of the US Zone, particularly such as had admin-
istrative connections at the national or Prussian State level,
will be prepared and suggestions submitted as to the ultimate
administrative arrangements to be made for them in accordance
with:
a. Arrangements entered into during Phase I by US
MFA&A Officers under Supreme Hqs, AEF.
b. Policies for the decentralization or reconstitu-
tion of the Reich administration determined by cc.
25. Considerations which bear on ultimate decisions
regarding administration, above par. 23, are here suggested:
a. German museums, archives and similar institutions
have been in the main financed at local (municipal) level or
regional (Land/Provinz) level, and the Denkmalspflege (monument
protection) service has also a structure centered at the Land/
Provinz level. It will thus be possible to establish provision-
ally the control of MFA&A at regional level, making use of the
regional organizations for supervision of smaller regional
institutions, replacing responsibility for monuments with the
existing organization of the Landeskonservatoren (Provinzial-
konservatoren, in Prussia), and assigning to this latter
organization the care of former royal palaces and parks.
b. Ultimately the greater museums should resume the
independence of control. The palaces and parks which are part
of State trusts, would depend for their ultimate disposition on
the general policy to be established concerning the preservation
of such trusts, or their reduction into Provincial trusts.
c. Certain museums in Prussian Provinces are staffed
by personnel who rank as Prussian civil servants; and the secur-
ity of tenure and terms of employment of these would follow the
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25. C. (Cont'd)
general policy of decentralization to be pursued in the German
Civil Service, and would chiefly concern the Finance Division
and the Education Branch.
26. Works of Art and other cultural materials in the US
Zone will be "frozen" immediately on occupation in accordance
with regulations and directives of Supreme Hqs, AEF. These
will continue in force with little or no change under CC, in
accordance with the appropriate Draft Directive prescribing
the locating, seizure, securing, and reporting to cc, for dis-
position by it, of works of art and other cultural materials,
and of records relating to them. Control will be implemented
through orders issued by the Zone Commander, directing activity
by the following agencies along the lines specified:
a. Public Safety: enforcement through civilian
police of orders forbidding the movement, sale, or export of
works of art by civilians.
b. Provost Marshal (or equivalent): enforcement
of directives forbidding the purchase or export of works of
art by Allied personnel.
c. Frontier guards under G-2 or Finance: detection
of export of works of art by smuggling.
d. Property Control: taking custody of works of
art; control of which nocessitates such custody.
e. MFA&A Officers at Military Government District
level: location, inventorying, and reporting on collections
and objects, with particular attention to:
(1) Acquisitions by collections or individuals
since 1938, with the source and method of
acquisition.
(2) Objects for which no reliable evidence of
ownership is forthcoming.
27. Control will further be implemented by the MFA&A
Branch, US Group CC, in the following ways:
a. As an element of the Control Staff:
(1) Evolving and coordinating policies and
actions with UK and USSR representatives.
(2) Collecting, analyzing and disseminating
information about MFA&A, on a tripartite
basis.
(3) Advising and assisting US MFA&A officers
in the field, when requested.
(4) Establishing Standard Operating Procedure
for control of MFA&A, in consultation with
the Adviser for MFA&A, G-5, Ops, Supreme
Headquarters, AEF.
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27. (Cont'd)
b. As an element of the Zone Staff:
(1) Subject to the outcome of current study of
the general relation between the staff of
the Zone Commander and the US element of
the control machinery, it is thought likely
that the US MFA&A officers .on the Control
Staff will serve the Zone Commander in an
advisory capacity, or will assist such
MFA&A officers as may be assigned to the
staff of the Zone Commander, to the extent
that such assistance is necessary and
requested (par. 6, ref. 2-a).
28. MFA&A Branch, US Group CC, will ultimately implement
in the US Zone any policy of restitution or replacement in kind
which may be determined upon by CC in accordance with the
appropriate Draft Directive (par. 4, ref. 2-a) in the following
general ways:
a. Correlating information as to works of art in
the US Zone with claims of works of art missing from territories
occupied by the Germans or their allies. In this, MFA&A will
work in conjunction with or through the Property Control Branch
of the RD&R Division:
b.
Instituting search for works of art reported as
missing from territories occupied by the Germans or their allies.
C. Carrying out in the US Zone any specific orders
issued by the Tripartite CC for restitution or replacement in
kind of looted works of art. In this, MFA&A will work in con-
junction with or through the Restitution and the Deliveries
Branches of the RD&R Division.
29. Coordination of this plan will be undertaken with
appropriate divisions and branches of US Group CC, with opposite
MFA&A Branches of Br and (if established) USSR Elements of CC,
with the Adviser on MFA&A; G-5 Ops, Supreme Hqs, AEF.
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VI. F. INCLOSURES
INCLOSURE 1. to ANNEX XX
Reich Ministerial Bureaus and National Agencies, including
those of the Prussian State, concerned with MFA&A.
The following list of Reichsministerial bureaus and other natio-
nal agencies, including those of the Prussian State, in BERLIN
concerned with MFA&A indicates those that should be subject to
Control (par. 18 of Annex XX), with suggestions as to their abo-
lition or reconstitution.
No.
Name
Action
under Réichsfinanzministerium:
1.
Abteiling VII: Reichsbauverwaltung
control
under Reichsministerium fur Volks-
aufklärung und Propaganda:
2.
Reichsbeauftragter für kunstlerische
Formgebung
abolish
3.
Reichsbildarchiv
control
4.
Reichsfilmarchiv
control
5.
Reichskulturkammer:
Reichskammer der bildenden Kunste abolish
6.
Reichsschallarchiv
control
under Reichsministerium für wis-
senschaft, Erziehung und
Volksbildung, Amt fur Volks-
bildung:
Abteilung V 1:
7.
Generaldirektion der preussischen staat-
lichen Museen (see MFA&A Plan No. 7,
Annex XX ref. 5-e)
control
8.
Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser und
Garten (see MFA&A Plan No.7, Annex
XX ref. 5-e)
control
Abteilung V 2:
9.
Provinzialkonservator der Denkmalspflege
für Gross-Berlin (see MFA&A Plan No.
7, Annex XX ref. 5-6)
control
10.
Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen
Reiches, Zentraldirektion (see MFA&A
Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)
control
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under Reichsministerium des Innern:
11. Abteilung VI: Archivwesen (see MFA&A
Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)
control
under Reichsministerium für die be-
setzten Ostgebiete*
Hauptabteilung
I:
12. Abteilung I - 6: Kulturpolitik (see
MFA&A Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-c) abolish
13. Einsatzstab Rosenberg (see MFA&A Plan
No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)
abolish
under Oberkormando der Wehrmacht,
Oberkormando des Heeres:
14. Abteilung Kunstschutz (see MFA&A Plan
No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)
abolish
under Auswärtiges Amt:
15.
Kulturpolitische Abteilung (see MFA&A
Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-c)
abolish
16. Reichsarchiv) in Potsdam (see MFA&A
Heeresarchiv)
Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)
control
under the Prussian Ministerpräsident:
17.
Geheimes Staatsarchiv (see MFA&/ Plan
No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e).
control
* Confirmation is still awaited of the existence in the Reichs-
ministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, or in ROSENBERG's
Party office (as Beauftragter des Fuhrers für die Überwachung
der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Er-
ziehung der NSDAP), of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg.
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INCLOSURE 2 to ANNEX XX
Agencies of the Nazi Party and Affiliated Organizations.
This list of agencies at the national level of the Nazi Party
and affiliated organizations in which MFA&A Branch US Group CC
might have a special interest (par. 20 of Annex XX) is based on
the memorandum of this Branch on the Dissolution of the Nazi
Party (Annex XX ref. 5-d), which derived them from the two lists
issued by Hq US Group CC which assigned Priority of Interest
(3 Jan 45) and Action to be Taken (8 Jan 45). The responsibility
of this Branch for the dissolution of these agencies should be
limited to advisory functions in matters relative to MFA&A.
No. Name
Lists No.
1. Kanzlei des Fuhrers der NSDAP (Berlin)
4
2. Partei-Kanzlei (Munich)
5
3.
Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (Munich),
Hauptamt IV: Reichsverwaltung
7-a
4. Hauptarchiv der NSDAP (Munich)
16
MFA&A Interest Dubious
5.
Parteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze 4-a
des NS-Schrifttums (Berlin, under Kanzlei
des Führers)
6.
Reichsorganisationsleiten der NSDAP (Munich)
6
7.
Hauptorganisationsamt des Reichs-
organisationsleiter (Munich)
6-a
Under the Beauftragter des Führers
für die Uberwachung der gesamten
geistigen und weltanschaulichen
Schülung und Erziehung der NSDAP (Berlin)
8. Reichsstelle für 98 die Forderung des deutschen
10-a
Schrifttums
9. Reichsbund fur deutsche Vorgeschichte
10-b
10. Amt Schrifttumspflege der NSDAP
10-c
11. Aussenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Berlin)
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No. Name
Lists No.
Under the Reichspropagandaleiter
der NSDAP (Berlin)
12. NS Volkskulturwerke
13-a
13. Amt Rundfunk
13-c
14. Amt Kultur
13-d
15. Reichsring
13-f
16. Amt Film
13-k
17. Institut für deutsche Kultur- und
13-1
Wirtschaftspropaganda
18. Kolonialpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Berlin)
19
19. Reichskolonialbund
19-a
Under the Reichsführer der
Hitler-Jugend (Berlin)
20. Organisationsamt der Hauptamt I
90
Under Hauptamt III
92
21.
Kulturamt
22.
Presse und Propagandaemt: Hauptstelle
Jugendfilm
23. Reichsschriftu sotelle
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INCLOSURE 3 to ANNEX XX
Monuments and Culturel Institutions in US Sector of BERLIN.
This list of monuments and cultural institutions in the US
Sector of BERLIN (par 22 of Annex XX) is extracted from the
Town Plans of BERLIN Center and BERLIN Suburbs in the Cultural
Atlas: GERMANY (Section 17 of Army Service Forces Manual M-356,
Civil Affairs Handbook: GERMANY), frequently referred to as
the "Frick Maps. The list has not been checked with latest
reports of bomb damage.
No.
Name
Atlas Reference
A. Monuments
1.
Jerusalemkirche (1725)
Center 4F/G-119
Koch- and Jerusalemstrasse
2.
Jacobuskirche (1844-45)
Center 4G-126
Oranienstrasse
3.
Dorfkirche (13-15 cents.)
Suburb 6D-21
Dehlem, Königin Luisen Strasse
and Cecilienallee
4.
Kolonnaden (1771-1780)
Center 5D-131
Kleist-Park
5.
Palast des Prinzen Albrecht
Center 4F-118
(1736-39), Wilhelmstresse 102
B. Cultural Institutions
6.
Museum für Völkerkunde
Center 4E-116
Saarlandstrasse 10
7.
Magazinbau des Museums fur
Suburb 6D-23
V8lkerkunde
Dahlem, Arnimallee 23
8.
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Center 4E-117
Prinz Albrecht Strasse 7
9.
Kunstbibliothek
Center 4E-117
Prinz Albrecht Strasse 7
10.
Botanisches Museum
Suburb 6D-24
Dahlem, Königin Luisen Stresse 68
C. Other Archives and Libraries
The following Archives and Libraries in the US Sector of
BERLIN listed in the Culturel Atlas will be of primary concern
to Advenced Ministerial Control Group or to other Divisions of
US Group CC but MFA&A will advise on their cere, protection,
and administration:
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C. Other Archives and Libraries (Cont'd)
No. Name
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11. Preussisches Geheimes Staatsarchiv
Suburb 6D-22
Dehlem, Archivstrasse 12-14
Concern of T Force, Intelligence and
Advanced Ministerial Control Group
(see MFA&A Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref.
5-e)
12. ArchBologisches Institut des deutschen
Center 4C-127
Reiches
Maienstrasse 1.
Concern of Advanced Ministerial
Control Group (see MFA&A Plan No. 7,
Annex XX ref. 5-e).
13. Zentralarchiv des Reichsnährstandes
Center 4E-123
Dessauerstrasse 26.
Concern of Economics.
14. Bibliothek der Gesellschaft fur
Center 4F-124
Erdkunde
Wilhelmstrasse 23.
Concern of Intelligence and
Education.
15. Kartensammlung und Bücherei des
Center 4F-125
Reichsamtes für Landesaufnahme.
Friedrichstrasse 240-241.
Concern of Intelligence and
Economics.
16. Bibliothek des Reichspatentemts
Center 4/5 F/G-129
Gitschnerstresse 97-103.
Concern of Intelligence, Legal,
and Economics.
17. Bibliothek des Kemmergerichts
Center 5D-130
Elssholzstrasse 32.
Concern of Legal.
18. Bucherei der biologischen Reichsenstalt,
Dahlem, Königin Luisen Strasse
19 (?91).
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BASIC PRELIMINARY PLAN
ALLIED CONTROL AND OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
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monuments, FINE ARTS
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REPARATION, DELIVERIES AND
RESTITUTION DIVISION
US GROUP CC
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ANNEX XX
honulients, FINE ARTS, AND ARCHIVES
I. Index:
Page
Index
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References
1
Definitions and Assumptions
2
Mission
3
Actions
3
II. references:
a. Draft Directives (US) for the Control of GERMANY:
(1) No. 2, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Control of
Works of Art and Monuments in Gerebany.
(2) No. 4, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Securing and
Examining Information and Archives in geray.
(3) No. 12, dated 24 Nov 44, subject: Religious
Affairs.
(4) Proposed directive, dated 23 Oct 44, subject:
Dissolution of the Nazi Party and Purge of Nazi Personnel.
b. JCS 1067 as revised 6 Jan 45:
(1) Appendix A (Political Directive), pars. 3, 4,
9, and 13.
(2) Appendix C (Economic Directive), pars. 1 (eso.
secs. a, e, f, 8), 3, 5, and 7.
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III. DEFINITIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS:
1. Monuments: immovable structures or objects of religious,
historic, artistic (architectural or sculptural), or other cultural
importance or value.
2. Works of art and other cultural materials: movable objects
of religious, historic, artistic, or scholarly importance or value,
including, besides works of art as commonly recognized, such objects
às valuable musical instruments, rare books and manuscripts, scientific
exhibits, and other materials which might reasonably form part of museum
or other public or private collections, libraries, and historical
archives.
3. Records: ordered accumulations of documents and similar
materials collected and preserved for the transaction of business by
any public or orivate agency, corporation, or individual. In contin-
ental Europe the single term "Archives" covers accumulations of current
records as well as those of purely historical documents.
4. It is assumed that:
a. A Commission on Restitution will be responsible for
formulating policies, procedures, and actions to be used for the
restitution or replacement in kind of works of art and other cultural
materials looted by the Germans or by thoir allies from territories
occupied by them, and for the idontification or selection of objects
to be used for those ourcoses.
b. The Allied Military Government of Gormany is responsible
for holding and making available for restitution or replacement in kind
all works of art and other cultural materials in Germany except those
which were the property of ecclesiastical bodies before 1 Jan 1938 and
for implementing policies, procedures, and actions formulated by the
Restitution Commission for the restitution or reolacement in kind of
looted works of art and other cultural materials.
C. Rostitution or placement in kind of works of art and
other cultural materials looted, stolen, or otherwise taken by violence,
fraud, or undue influence from citizons of the Gorman Reich will be
accomplished by logal action in the reorganized Gorman courts with the
suporvision and approval of the Allied Military Government.
d. Appropriate moasures for the "froozing" and control of
works of art and other cultural materials will have been put into
offect throughout GERHANY during the OVERLORD and ECLIPSE operations.
Those will include:
(1) Prohibition of movement, transfor, sale or
export, oithor by Gorman civilians or by Alliod por-
sonnol, except as may be authorized by Allied Military
Government.
(2) Registration and recording of works of art
and other cultural matorials, especially thoso acquired
by Gorman institutions or individuals since 1 Jan 1938.
(3) Where nocossary, taking of custody, through
Proporty Control Officers, and warchousing of works
of art and other cultural matorials.
C. Administrativo rolations which existed before occupation
between Reich ministerial or other national MFA&A agoncios, including
those of the Prussian State, and similar agencios at the Land/Provinz
or lower levels will have wholly or in largo moasure coased to exist
prior to the ostablishmont of Alliod Control Council.
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IV. MISSION OF THE MFA&A BRANCH:
5. As the US component of the MFAM element of the Allied
Control Staff, under supervision of the Diroctor of the RD&R Element,
to recommend to the Allied Control Council for transmission to the
Zone Commanders information and directives necessary for:
a. The protection and prosorvation of monuments, works of
art and other cultural matorials, and records in gerilany.
b. The continuance, reconstitution, abolition, or docon-
tralization of Gorman civilian MFA&A agencies at all levels, including
the votting, rotention, romoval, and roplacoment of appropriate
civilian porsonnel.
C. The froozing and control of works of art and other
cultural materials, to onsure their availability for rostitution or
replacement in kind, as doscribed above, Soc. III-4-d.
d. Appropriate participation by MFA&A in the dissolution
of the Nazi Party or its affiliated agoncios and in the disposal of
rocords, symbols, or similar soquestrated proporty thoroof to muscums
and other institutions oithor in GERMANY or in other countrios.
O. The rostitution and replacement in hind of works of art
and othor cultural materials lootod by the Gormans or their allios, in
accordance with policios, procedures, and actions rocommended by tho
Restitution Commission.
f. Administration and exploitation of rocords for the
offectivo operation of the Allied Military Government, in so far as
this is not covered by tho mission of the appropriate intolligonce
agencios.
6. is the MFA&A Branch of the staff of the Commanding Goneral,
eto, in his capacity as US member of the Allied Control Council, under
supervision of the Diroctor of the RD&R Division, to advise other
staff soctions and the Commanding Gonoral in mattors in which IFA&A
has a concorn.
V.
ACTIONS TO B | TAKEN:
7. is part of the HEASA elemont of the Alliod Control Staff,
under supervision of the Director of the RD&R Element:
a. Propare information and diroctivos for rocommondation
to the Allied Control Council as nocessary to accomplish the missions
set forth in Sec. IV-5.
b. Establish a joint socrotariat and filos for the collec-
tion, analysis, and dissomination of information rolating to the
control and rostitution or replacement in kind of works of art and
other cultural matorials, and for the rocording of claims and
deliverios in connection thorowith.
C. Intograte the MFA&A joint socrotariat and filos with
the joint secrotoriat and filos establishod by the RD&R olomont of
the Allied Control Staff.
d. Arrango for the roceipt and transmission of lifaca
information through proscribed channels:
(1) to and from bodios, as the Restitution
Commission, recognized by the Alliod Control Council
as compotent for this purpose.
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(2) to and from each national MFASA branch, when
SO required for transmission to or receipt from the
rospectivo national Zonos.
O. Establish Alliod control over and transmit orders of the
Alliod Control Council to the Reich ministorial and other national MFA&A
agencios, including those of the Prussian State.
8. is the HEASA olomont of the staff of the Commanding Genoral,
eto, in his capacity 0.8 US member of the Alliod Control Council, under
supervision of the Director of the RD&R Division:
C. Arrango for the receipt and transmission of MFA&A informa-
tion through prescribed channels:
(1) to and from the MFA&A cloment on the staff of the
Commanding Gonoral; et0, in his capacity C.S Commandor-in-
Chicf of the US Zonc.
(2) to and from appropriate US agencies at higher lovels,
C.S the American Commission for the Protoction and Salvage of
Artistic and Historic Monuments in Ter Aroas.
b. Advise other divisions or branchos of the staff of the
Commanding Gonoral, eto, in his capacity L.S US member of the Allied
Control Council on MFAMA matters, such as:
(1) Education: on the administration and personnel
of muscums, librarios, and collections.
(2) Roligious Affairs: on monumonts, works of art
and other cultural matorials, and records, and on the
administration and porsonnol thereof, belonging to
occlesiastical bodios.
(3) Administration and Local Government: on the
administration and personnol of Archivos and on problems
of civil service status.
(4) Logal: on regulations necessary for the protoc-
tion, "froozing", and control of monuments, works of art
and other cultural matorials, and records.
(5) Public Safety: for polico, firo, and civil defense
measures to protect monuments and for votting Gorman
civilian personnel.
(6) Financo: on the pay and maintonance of the civil
MFA&A administration and on moasures of frontier control
over the movement of works of art.
c. Adviso other branches of the US RDAR Division on HFA&A
mattors, such as:
(1) Property Control: on the taking of custody and
warchousing of works of art.
(2) Restitution: on the forms and proceduros to bc
followed in offocting rostitution or replacement in
kind of works of art and other cultural matorials.
(3) Dolivorios: on the procodure for the dolivery of
objects to be restored or used for replacement in kind.
d. Advisc and assist the MEANA clomont of the staff of the
Commanding Gonoral, што, in his capacity as Commandor-in-Chiof of the
US Zono, and perform such further staff functions as ho may diroct.
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No. 34, dated 13 Dec 44, subject: Planning\nProgram, pars. 2-b and 3-b.\nb. No. 2, dated 16 Jan 45, subject: Flexibility\nand Completeness of Plans.\n2. EAC (US) Draft Directives:\na. No. 2, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Control of Works\nof Art and Monuments in GERMANY.\nb. No. 4, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Securing and\nExamining Information and Archives in GERMANY.\nc. No. 12, dated 24 Nov 44, subject: Religious Affairs.\nd. Proposed directive, not yet approved, dated 23\nOct 44, subject: Dissolution of the Nazi Party and Purge of Nazi\nPersonnel.\n3. JCS 1067:\na. Appendix A to Inclosure C (Political Directive),\ndated 5 Oct 44, pars. 3, 4, 9, and 13.\nb. Appendix C to Inclosure C, par. 1-c.\n4. US Group CC, Memorandum, dated 29 Jan 45, A/A Deputy,\nto MFA&A Branch, subject: Comments on Notes on Points connected\nwith Planning of MFA&A Branch, US Group CC.\n5. MFA&A Branch Memoranda:\na.\ndated 23 Oct 44, Plan No. 5: part of the Operational\nPlan for the Movement and Operations of a Team from Property\nSection, Military Government, Division A, US Group CC.\nb. dated 15 Dec 44, subject: Decentralization of\nGerman National Agencies.\nC. dated 28 Dec 44, Six Notes on planning, as follows:\n(1) MFA&A in BREMEN and BREMERHAVEN.\n(2) Control of MFA&A in RHEINHESSEN and PFALZ.\n(3) Relation between the Control and Operation\nof MFA&A in BERLIN.\n(4) Control of Archives in POTSDAM.\n(5) Representation of MFA&A on the Advanced\nMinisterial Control Group (Germany).\n(6) Relation between Planning for Control in the\nUS Zone and in Military Districts, in con-\nnection with MFA&A Operations in GERMANY.\nd. dated 13 Jan 45, subject: Dissolution of the Nazi\nParty.\ne. dated 13 Jan 45, Plan No. 7: Targets, Objectives\nand Procedure for MFA&A Officers on an Advanced Ministerial\nControl Group in BERLIN.\nf. dated 17 Jan 45, subject: Reconstitution of\nReich Ministries and Central Agencies.\n- 2 -\nSECRET\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes.\nSECRET\nIII. ASSUMPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS.\n6. That at the arrival at their targets of the Advanced\nMinisterial Control Group there will still be elements of min-\nistries and ministerial agencies; and that information relative\nto the looting of works of art by the Germans, to the present\nlocation of such loot, and to the nature and destination of\ncontents of German collections removed for security to remote\ndeposits, will be so secured.\n7. That if the USSR Element of the CC is not the first\nto arrive in BERLIN, joint control of MFA&A will be exercised\nby the US and UK MFA&A Branches, and that this cooperation\nwill be similar whether enforced by MFA&A Officers in Advanced\nMinisterial Control Teams or as members of the Branches when\nestablished. Control would become tripartite upon the arrival\nof the USSR MFA&A representatives. The same result would be\nachieved in reverse sequence should the USSR Element of the CC\narrive first in BERLIN.\n8. That administrative relations which existed before\noccupation between MFA&A in GERMANY at Land/Provinz level and\nat Reich Ministerial or other national agencies, including\nthose of the Prussian State, will be severed.\n9. That the transition from Phase I, Control under the\nSupreme Commander, AEF, to Phase II, of tripartite control\nunder the CC, will not seriously affect US participation in the\ncontrol of MFA&A in GERMANY. The development from Advanced to\nFull Ministerial Control will depend upon the augmentation of\npersonnel in BERLIN.\n10. That a decision will be received from the Allied\ngovernments (ref. 3-b) whether and to what extent German\nresources in works of art and other cultural materials will be\nused for reparation to any of the Allied countries, beyond\ntheir use for restitution, or restitution in kind (par. 4, ref.\n2-a).\n11. That the absolute limitation of qualified US personnel\nin the highly restricted field of MFA&A operations will make\nunusual demands for consultation and advice, at Zone and Military\nDistrict levels, upon the US personnel of the Control Staff.\n12. That MFA&A control and operations in GERMANY will\nrequire:\na. Two years from completion of occupation for\nreconstitution of the German administration of MFA&A and the\nimposition of control on works of art and other cultural\nmaterials to a point where MFA&A Officers may largely be with-\ndrawn from the Military Government District level and concen-\ntrated in MFA&A Branch, US Group CC.\nb. Five years from the completion of occupation for\nthe completion of the mission of MFA&A in GERMANY.\n13. Definitions.\na. The phrase \"works of art and other cultural\nmáterials\" covers all objects or materials of artistic, historic,\nscientific or other cultural importance or value. The phrase\nincludes archives, records or documents of historic or cultural\nimportance. and scientific exhibits, specimens or equipment of a\nresearch or educational character or pertaining to cultural\nhistory, so far as such archives and scientific materials are\nnot covered in the following definition.\n- 3 -\nS ECRE T\nSECRET\n13. (Cont'd)\nb.\nThe ward \"archives\" covers all records, books,\ndocuments, papers, files and other data belonging to the State\nor any agency of government in GERMANY, whether central,\nregional or local, or belonging to the Nazi Party or any of\nits auxiliary organs, or belonging to financial, industrial and\ncommercial institutions and individuals engaged in foreign com-\nmercial or financial activities.\nIV. MISSION OF THE MFA&A BRANCH.\n14. The US objectives of ministerial control with respect\nto MFA&A in GERMANY are to carry out the policies of the US\nDelegation to the European Advisory Commission:\na.\nTo protect monuments, objects, and institutions\nin GERMANY which are of permanent importance in the cultural\nheritage of mankind.\nb. To ensure that the Germans do not conceal, remove,\nor export works of art and other cultural materials immediately\navailable for Restitution by item or in kind, or subsequently\navailable on account of Reparations (ref. 3-b).\nc. To locate and hold available for eventual restitu-\ntion or replacement in kind works of art and cultural material in\nGERMANY, both those looted by the Germans and those in their own\npublic and private collections which might be used on account of\nReparations (pars. 8, 11, and 12 of ref. 2-a; ref. 3-b).\nd. To ensure the preservation, administration, and\nexploitation of archives, both those of historic value and those\nnecessary either for the control or for the administration of\nGERMANY under Allied Military Government.\ne. To ensure that museums, libraries, archives, and\nother collections of cultural materials in GERMANY which have\nbeen used as instruments of Nazi propaganda are reoriented in\naccordance with the Allied program.\nf. To recommend to Public Safety the seizure and\nclosing of libraries, archives, and similar institutions which\nare of Nazi inception or devoted to the perpetuation of German\nmilitarism and to Property Control the holding of their contents\nas well as other Nazi symbols and similar objects for eventual\ndisposition by the CC.\n15. US Group CC will, in accordance with US policy (par.\n14) control MFA&A in GERMANY with respect to:\na.\nMonuments, including buildings and relatively\nimmovable objects of historic, artistic, or other cultural\nimportance.\nb. Works of art, including collections of, and\nindividual movable objects of historical, artistic, or other\ncultural importance, particularly if they are of high intrinsic\nvalue.\nC. Nazi symbols and similar monuments or objects\nused for Nazi propaganda.\nd. Archives, both historic and contemporary, with\nparticular reference to their preservation and administration.\n4 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\nV. ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN.\n16. Actions contemplated by US Group CC in accordance with\nUS policies to establish control of MFA&A in GERMANY may be\nconsidered under five headings:\na. Reich ministerial bureaus and other national\nagencies, including those of the Prussian State.\nb. Nazi Party and affiliated organizations.\nC. MFA&A in the US Sector of BERLIN.\nd.\nMFA&A in the US Zone so far as administered from\na national or Prussian State level.\ne. Control and \"freezing\" of works of art and other\ncultural materials in the US Zone.\n17. Control of Reich ministerial bureaus and other national\nagencies, including those of the Prussian State, in BERLIN and\nelsewhere which are concerned with MFA&A will be imposed initially\nby MFA&A Officers on the Advanced Ministerial Control Group. Con-\ntrol will require actions along the following general lines:\na. To abolish bureaus or agencies of purely Nazi\ninvention, which will şerve no useful purpose for the control\nand administration of MFA&A under CC. Property of abolished\nagencies will be taken over by Property Control; their records\nwill be seized for exploitation and disposi by MFA&A on a\ntripartite basis; and their personnel will be dismissed except\nin so far as approved, for employment to assist in exploitation\nand liquidation.\nb. To continue or reconstitute on a skeleton basis\nthose bureaus or agencies which are necessary for the control\nand administration of MFA&A. It should not be immediately\nnecessary to restaff such agencies on their preoccupation scale;\nthey may be continued or reconstituted with a minimum approved\noperating staff, pending decision of the degree of reconstitution\nor decentralization of the Reich and Prussian State administrations\nIf the maximum degree of decentralization be enforced there are\nstill two Reich administrations which should not be decentralized:\n(1) Reichsarchiv - though its Vienna Branch,\nadded at the Anschluss, will presumably\npass to the Austrian Allied Commission.\n(2) Archaologisches Institut, Zentral direktion\nand the Romisch-Germanisch Kommission in\nFrankfurt a/M.\nFor a discussion of decentralization of Reich Agencies in the US\nZone, see below, par. 24-b, 25.\n18. A tentative list of Reich ministerial bureaus and\nnational agencies, including those of the Prussian State con-\ncerned with MFA&A and suggestions as to their abolition or\ncontinuance (reconsti tution) is attached as Inclosure 1. This\nlist includes those previously submitted as part of the Plan for\nAdvanced Ministerial Control (no. 7, ref. 5-e).\n- 5 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\n19. The participation of US MFA&A Branch in the Dissolution\nof the Nazi Party and affiliated organizations is discussed, in\naccordance with the Draft Directive (ref. 2-d) and JCS 1067\n(ref. 3-a), in a memorandum of this Branch on this subject (ref.\n5-d). US MFA&A ,articipation is proposed as purely advisory,\nlooking toward preservation, and ultimate disposition on a\ntripartite basis, of:\na. Works of art and other cultural material in Nazi\npossession. of which custody is taken by Property Control.\nb. The contents of museums of Nazi inception and of\nNazi symbols and similar objects as defined in JCS 1067 (ref.\n3-a). Such objects will first be seized by Public Safety\nOfficers and then pass into custody of Property Control.\nC.\nDocuments, records, and archives. These will\neither be seized for removal and exploitation by Intelligence\nagencies or will be seized and secured by local Military\nGovernment Detachments.\n20. A tentative list of agencies of the Nazi Party and\naffiliated organizations in which the US MFA&A Branch might\nhave a special interest is attached as Inclosure 2.\n21. Nazi property and records are peculiarly liable to\nloss in the initial occupation, either through deliberate des-\ntruction or through civilian looting or through souvenir-hunting\nby Allied personnel or through hasty exploitation by advanced\nIntelligence agencies. Discussions are now in progress in\nvarious interested quarters to formulate measures to minimize\nsuch loss. This Branch will endeavor to follow these discussions\nand to formulate its plans in accordance with their results so\nas to ensure that the interests of Tripartite CC and of the\nMilitary Government in the US Zone in Phase II are given due\nconsideration.\n22. MFA&A in the US Sector, Berlin Area, initially dealt\nwith by a MFA&A Officer on the staff of the Berlin District\nCommander, will be the concern of the Technical Staff of the\nUS member of the Kommendatura. Should it later eventuate that\nthere is not enough work to give one MFA&A officer full-time\nemployment, his MFA&A functions might well be assigned as an\nextra function to another officer on the Kommendatura staff,\nbut in any case technical channels between this Staff and the\nMFA&A Branch should not be blocked. Normal command channels\nwill be followed in matters of policy. A list of monuments,\nmuseums, libraries, archives and similar cultural institutions\nin the US Sector of BERLIN is attached as Inclosure 3.\n23. Control of MFA&A in the US Zone will initially be\nexercised by US MFA&A Officers under Supreme Hqs, AEF. Control\nat the Military Government District (Land/Provinz) level should\nbe continuous from Phase I into Phase II, in accordance with the\nfollowing general policies:\na. Initially to close all monuments not of daily\npublic use (as churches or town-halls) and cultural institutions\nand to maintain only the minimum approved staff necessary for\ntheir protection and upkeep, until other personnel are vetted\nand records and contents are examined.\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\n- 6 -\npreservation purposes.\nSECRE T\nSECRET\n23. (Cont'd)\nb. To reopen such buildings as earlý as is consistent\nwith the security and operation of military government in order\nto provide the civilian population with means of entertainment\nand instruction. Reopening should take place only under approved\npersonnel and after exhibits or material of Nazi import have\nbeen removed from public access. Such Nazi materials should\nnot, however, be destroyed or dissipated but held either for\ndisposal on a Tripartite basis or eventually to form part of\nthe historical collections of archives of GERMANY after they\nhave lost any significance which might make them of propaganda\nvalue against the purposes of Allied control (ref. 3-a, par. 13).\nC. To restore such buildings to complete Gérman\nadministration at Reich or Land/Provinz level, as may be\ndetermined, as soon as such relaxation of Allied control is\nconsistent with:\n(1) The carrying out of an agreed CC policy\nfor restitution or replacement in kind\nof works of art and other cultural materials.\n(2) An agreed CC program for the reeducation\nof GERMANY.\n24. Lists of monuments and cultural institutions in the\nLänder/Provinzen of the US Zone, particularly such as had admin-\nistrative connections at the national or Prussian State level,\nwill be prepared and suggestions submitted as to the ultimate\nadministrative arrangements to be made for them in accordance\nwith:\na. Arrangements entered into during Phase I by US\nMFA&A Officers under Supreme Hqs, AEF.\nb. Policies for the decentralization or reconstitu-\ntion of the Reich administration determined by cc.\n25. Considerations which bear on ultimate decisions\nregarding administration, above par. 23, are here suggested:\na. German museums, archives and similar institutions\nhave been in the main financed at local (municipal) level or\nregional (Land/Provinz) level, and the Denkmalspflege (monument\nprotection) service has also a structure centered at the Land/\nProvinz level. It will thus be possible to establish provision-\nally the control of MFA&A at regional level, making use of the\nregional organizations for supervision of smaller regional\ninstitutions, replacing responsibility for monuments with the\nexisting organization of the Landeskonservatoren (Provinzial-\nkonservatoren, in Prussia), and assigning to this latter\norganization the care of former royal palaces and parks.\nb. Ultimately the greater museums should resume the\nindependence of control. The palaces and parks which are part\nof State trusts, would depend for their ultimate disposition on\nthe general policy to be established concerning the preservation\nof such trusts, or their reduction into Provincial trusts.\nc. Certain museums in Prussian Provinces are staffed\nby personnel who rank as Prussian civil servants; and the secur-\nity of tenure and terms of employment of these would follow the\n- 7 -\nSECRET\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npurposes\nSECRET\n25. C. (Cont'd)\ngeneral policy of decentralization to be pursued in the German\nCivil Service, and would chiefly concern the Finance Division\nand the Education Branch.\n26. Works of Art and other cultural materials in the US\nZone will be \"frozen\" immediately on occupation in accordance\nwith regulations and directives of Supreme Hqs, AEF. These\nwill continue in force with little or no change under CC, in\naccordance with the appropriate Draft Directive prescribing\nthe locating, seizure, securing, and reporting to cc, for dis-\nposition by it, of works of art and other cultural materials,\nand of records relating to them. Control will be implemented\nthrough orders issued by the Zone Commander, directing activity\nby the following agencies along the lines specified:\na. Public Safety: enforcement through civilian\npolice of orders forbidding the movement, sale, or export of\nworks of art by civilians.\nb. Provost Marshal (or equivalent): enforcement\nof directives forbidding the purchase or export of works of\nart by Allied personnel.\nc. Frontier guards under G-2 or Finance: detection\nof export of works of art by smuggling.\nd. Property Control: taking custody of works of\nart; control of which nocessitates such custody.\ne. MFA&A Officers at Military Government District\nlevel: location, inventorying, and reporting on collections\nand objects, with particular attention to:\n(1) Acquisitions by collections or individuals\nsince 1938, with the source and method of\nacquisition.\n(2) Objects for which no reliable evidence of\nownership is forthcoming.\n27. Control will further be implemented by the MFA&A\nBranch, US Group CC, in the following ways:\na. As an element of the Control Staff:\n(1) Evolving and coordinating policies and\nactions with UK and USSR representatives.\n(2) Collecting, analyzing and disseminating\ninformation about MFA&A, on a tripartite\nbasis.\n(3) Advising and assisting US MFA&A officers\nin the field, when requested.\n(4) Establishing Standard Operating Procedure\nfor control of MFA&A, in consultation with\nthe Adviser for MFA&A, G-5, Ops, Supreme\nHeadquarters, AEF.\n- 8 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\n27. (Cont'd)\nb. As an element of the Zone Staff:\n(1) Subject to the outcome of current study of\nthe general relation between the staff of\nthe Zone Commander and the US element of\nthe control machinery, it is thought likely\nthat the US MFA&A officers .on the Control\nStaff will serve the Zone Commander in an\nadvisory capacity, or will assist such\nMFA&A officers as may be assigned to the\nstaff of the Zone Commander, to the extent\nthat such assistance is necessary and\nrequested (par. 6, ref. 2-a).\n28. MFA&A Branch, US Group CC, will ultimately implement\nin the US Zone any policy of restitution or replacement in kind\nwhich may be determined upon by CC in accordance with the\nappropriate Draft Directive (par. 4, ref. 2-a) in the following\ngeneral ways:\na. Correlating information as to works of art in\nthe US Zone with claims of works of art missing from territories\noccupied by the Germans or their allies. In this, MFA&A will\nwork in conjunction with or through the Property Control Branch\nof the RD&R Division:\nb.\nInstituting search for works of art reported as\nmissing from territories occupied by the Germans or their allies.\nC. Carrying out in the US Zone any specific orders\nissued by the Tripartite CC for restitution or replacement in\nkind of looted works of art. In this, MFA&A will work in con-\njunction with or through the Restitution and the Deliveries\nBranches of the RD&R Division.\n29. Coordination of this plan will be undertaken with\nappropriate divisions and branches of US Group CC, with opposite\nMFA&A Branches of Br and (if established) USSR Elements of CC,\nwith the Adviser on MFA&A; G-5 Ops, Supreme Hqs, AEF.\n- 9 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\nVI. F. INCLOSURES\nINCLOSURE 1. to ANNEX XX\nReich Ministerial Bureaus and National Agencies, including\nthose of the Prussian State, concerned with MFA&A.\nThe following list of Reichsministerial bureaus and other natio-\nnal agencies, including those of the Prussian State, in BERLIN\nconcerned with MFA&A indicates those that should be subject to\nControl (par. 18 of Annex XX), with suggestions as to their abo-\nlition or reconstitution.\nNo.\nName\nAction\nunder Réichsfinanzministerium:\n1.\nAbteiling VII: Reichsbauverwaltung\ncontrol\nunder Reichsministerium fur Volks-\naufklärung und Propaganda:\n2.\nReichsbeauftragter für kunstlerische\nFormgebung\nabolish\n3.\nReichsbildarchiv\ncontrol\n4.\nReichsfilmarchiv\ncontrol\n5.\nReichskulturkammer:\nReichskammer der bildenden Kunste abolish\n6.\nReichsschallarchiv\ncontrol\nunder Reichsministerium für wis-\nsenschaft, Erziehung und\nVolksbildung, Amt fur Volks-\nbildung:\nAbteilung V 1:\n7.\nGeneraldirektion der preussischen staat-\nlichen Museen (see MFA&A Plan No. 7,\nAnnex XX ref. 5-e)\ncontrol\n8.\nVerwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser und\nGarten (see MFA&A Plan No.7, Annex\nXX ref. 5-e)\ncontrol\nAbteilung V 2:\n9.\nProvinzialkonservator der Denkmalspflege\nfür Gross-Berlin (see MFA&A Plan No.\n7, Annex XX ref. 5-6)\ncontrol\n10.\nArchäologisches Institut des Deutschen\nReiches, Zentraldirektion (see MFA&A\nPlan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)\ncontrol\n1\nSECRET\nSECRET\nunder Reichsministerium des Innern:\n11. Abteilung VI: Archivwesen (see MFA&A\nPlan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)\ncontrol\nunder Reichsministerium für die be-\nsetzten Ostgebiete*\nHauptabteilung\nI:\n12. Abteilung I - 6: Kulturpolitik (see\nMFA&A Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-c) abolish\n13. Einsatzstab Rosenberg (see MFA&A Plan\nNo. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)\nabolish\nunder Oberkormando der Wehrmacht,\nOberkormando des Heeres:\n14. Abteilung Kunstschutz (see MFA&A Plan\nNo. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)\nabolish\nunder Auswärtiges Amt:\n15.\nKulturpolitische Abteilung (see MFA&A\nPlan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-c)\nabolish\n16. Reichsarchiv) in Potsdam (see MFA&A\nHeeresarchiv)\nPlan No. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e)\ncontrol\nunder the Prussian Ministerpräsident:\n17.\nGeheimes Staatsarchiv (see MFA&/ Plan\nNo. 7, Annex XX ref. 5-e).\ncontrol\n* Confirmation is still awaited of the existence in the Reichs-\nministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, or in ROSENBERG's\nParty office (as Beauftragter des Fuhrers für die Überwachung\nder gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Er-\nziehung der NSDAP), of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg.\nLondnoo\nXX\n2 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\nINCLOSURE 2 to ANNEX XX\nAgencies of the Nazi Party and Affiliated Organizations.\nThis list of agencies at the national level of the Nazi Party\nand affiliated organizations in which MFA&A Branch US Group CC\nmight have a special interest (par. 20 of Annex XX) is based on\nthe memorandum of this Branch on the Dissolution of the Nazi\nParty (Annex XX ref. 5-d), which derived them from the two lists\nissued by Hq US Group CC which assigned Priority of Interest\n(3 Jan 45) and Action to be Taken (8 Jan 45). The responsibility\nof this Branch for the dissolution of these agencies should be\nlimited to advisory functions in matters relative to MFA&A.\nNo. Name\nLists No.\n1. Kanzlei des Fuhrers der NSDAP (Berlin)\n4\n2. Partei-Kanzlei (Munich)\n5\n3.\nReichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (Munich),\nHauptamt IV: Reichsverwaltung\n7-a\n4. Hauptarchiv der NSDAP (Munich)\n16\nMFA&A Interest Dubious\n5.\nParteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze 4-a\ndes NS-Schrifttums (Berlin, under Kanzlei\ndes Führers)\n6.\nReichsorganisationsleiten der NSDAP (Munich)\n6\n7.\nHauptorganisationsamt des Reichs-\norganisationsleiter (Munich)\n6-a\nUnder the Beauftragter des Führers\nfür die Uberwachung der gesamten\ngeistigen und weltanschaulichen\nSchülung und Erziehung der NSDAP (Berlin)\n8. Reichsstelle für 98 die Forderung des deutschen\n10-a\nSchrifttums\n9. Reichsbund fur deutsche Vorgeschichte\n10-b\n10. Amt Schrifttumspflege der NSDAP\n10-c\n11. Aussenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Berlin)\n11\n- 1\nSECRET\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes.\nSECRET\nNo. Name\nLists No.\nUnder the Reichspropagandaleiter\nder NSDAP (Berlin)\n12. NS Volkskulturwerke\n13-a\n13. Amt Rundfunk\n13-c\n14. Amt Kultur\n13-d\n15. Reichsring\n13-f\n16. Amt Film\n13-k\n17. Institut für deutsche Kultur- und\n13-1\nWirtschaftspropaganda\n18. Kolonialpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Berlin)\n19\n19. Reichskolonialbund\n19-a\nUnder the Reichsführer der\nHitler-Jugend (Berlin)\n20. Organisationsamt der Hauptamt I\n90\nUnder Hauptamt III\n92\n21.\nKulturamt\n22.\nPresse und Propagandaemt: Hauptstelle\nJugendfilm\n23. Reichsschriftu sotelle\n- 2\nSECRET\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\nSECRET\nINCLOSURE 3 to ANNEX XX\nMonuments and Culturel Institutions in US Sector of BERLIN.\nThis list of monuments and cultural institutions in the US\nSector of BERLIN (par 22 of Annex XX) is extracted from the\nTown Plans of BERLIN Center and BERLIN Suburbs in the Cultural\nAtlas: GERMANY (Section 17 of Army Service Forces Manual M-356,\nCivil Affairs Handbook: GERMANY), frequently referred to as\nthe \"Frick Maps. The list has not been checked with latest\nreports of bomb damage.\nNo.\nName\nAtlas Reference\nA. Monuments\n1.\nJerusalemkirche (1725)\nCenter 4F/G-119\nKoch- and Jerusalemstrasse\n2.\nJacobuskirche (1844-45)\nCenter 4G-126\nOranienstrasse\n3.\nDorfkirche (13-15 cents.)\nSuburb 6D-21\nDehlem, Königin Luisen Strasse\nand Cecilienallee\n4.\nKolonnaden (1771-1780)\nCenter 5D-131\nKleist-Park\n5.\nPalast des Prinzen Albrecht\nCenter 4F-118\n(1736-39), Wilhelmstresse 102\nB. Cultural Institutions\n6.\nMuseum für Völkerkunde\nCenter 4E-116\nSaarlandstrasse 10\n7.\nMagazinbau des Museums fur\nSuburb 6D-23\nV8lkerkunde\nDahlem, Arnimallee 23\n8.\nMuseum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte\nCenter 4E-117\nPrinz Albrecht Strasse 7\n9.\nKunstbibliothek\nCenter 4E-117\nPrinz Albrecht Strasse 7\n10.\nBotanisches Museum\nSuburb 6D-24\nDahlem, Königin Luisen Stresse 68\nC. Other Archives and Libraries\nThe following Archives and Libraries in the US Sector of\nBERLIN listed in the Culturel Atlas will be of primary concern\nto Advenced Ministerial Control Group or to other Divisions of\nUS Group CC but MFA&A will advise on their cere, protection,\nand administration:\nSECRET\nElectrostatic reproduction made\n-1-\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes.\nSECRET\nC. Other Archives and Libraries (Cont'd)\nNo. Name\nAtlas Reference\n11. Preussisches Geheimes Staatsarchiv\nSuburb 6D-22\nDehlem, Archivstrasse 12-14\nConcern of T Force, Intelligence and\nAdvanced Ministerial Control Group\n(see MFA&A Plan No. 7, Annex XX ref.\n5-e)\n12. ArchBologisches Institut des deutschen\nCenter 4C-127\nReiches\nMaienstrasse 1.\nConcern of Advanced Ministerial\nControl Group (see MFA&A Plan No. 7,\nAnnex XX ref. 5-e).\n13. Zentralarchiv des Reichsnährstandes\nCenter 4E-123\nDessauerstrasse 26.\nConcern of Economics.\n14. Bibliothek der Gesellschaft fur\nCenter 4F-124\nErdkunde\nWilhelmstrasse 23.\nConcern of Intelligence and\nEducation.\n15. Kartensammlung und Bücherei des\nCenter 4F-125\nReichsamtes für Landesaufnahme.\nFriedrichstrasse 240-241.\nConcern of Intelligence and\nEconomics.\n16. Bibliothek des Reichspatentemts\nCenter 4/5 F/G-129\nGitschnerstresse 97-103.\nConcern of Intelligence, Legal,\nand Economics.\n17. Bibliothek des Kemmergerichts\nCenter 5D-130\nElssholzstrasse 32.\nConcern of Legal.\n18. Bucherei der biologischen Reichsenstalt,\nDahlem, Königin Luisen Strasse\n19 (?91).\nSECRET\n-2-\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes\nEF30/QE\nRESTRICTED\nEF30/A8-2\nSECRET\nAl(e)(2)\nHEADOUARTERS\nUS GROUP CC (MAIN)\n:\n:\nAPO\n742\n: AUTH: A/Deputy US Gp CC :\n36\n: INIT: Jamb\n:\n: DATE: 9 April 45\n:\n:\n:\nRESTRICTED\nANNEX XX\n(monuments FINE ARTS AND ARCHIVES)\nTO\nBASIC PRELIMINARY PLAN\nALLIED CONTROL AND OCCUPATION OF GERMANY\n(CONTROL COUNCIL PERIOD)\nmonuments, FINE ARTS\nAND ARCHIVES BRANCH\nREPARATION, DELIVERIES AND\nRESTITUTION DIVISION\nUS GROUP CC\n9 APRIL 1945\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes\nSECRET\nSECRET\nSECRET\nSECRET\nANNEX XX\nhonulients, FINE ARTS, AND ARCHIVES\nI. Index:\nPage\nIndex\n1\nReferences\n1\nDefinitions and Assumptions\n2\nMission\n3\nActions\n3\nII. references:\na. Draft Directives (US) for the Control of GERMANY:\n(1) No. 2, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Control of\nWorks of Art and Monuments in Gerebany.\n(2) No. 4, dated 22 Nov 44, subject: Securing and\nExamining Information and Archives in geray.\n(3) No. 12, dated 24 Nov 44, subject: Religious\nAffairs.\n(4) Proposed directive, dated 23 Oct 44, subject:\nDissolution of the Nazi Party and Purge of Nazi Personnel.\nb. JCS 1067 as revised 6 Jan 45:\n(1) Appendix A (Political Directive), pars. 3, 4,\n9, and 13.\n(2) Appendix C (Economic Directive), pars. 1 (eso.\nsecs. a, e, f, 8), 3, 5, and 7.\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes.\nSECRET\n- 1 -\nSECRET\nSECRET\nIII. DEFINITIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS:\n1. Monuments: immovable structures or objects of religious,\nhistoric, artistic (architectural or sculptural), or other cultural\nimportance or value.\n2. Works of art and other cultural materials: movable objects\nof religious, historic, artistic, or scholarly importance or value,\nincluding, besides works of art as commonly recognized, such objects\nàs valuable musical instruments, rare books and manuscripts, scientific\nexhibits, and other materials which might reasonably form part of museum\nor other public or private collections, libraries, and historical\narchives.\n3. Records: ordered accumulations of documents and similar\nmaterials collected and preserved for the transaction of business by\nany public or orivate agency, corporation, or individual. In contin-\nental Europe the single term \"Archives\" covers accumulations of current\nrecords as well as those of purely historical documents.\n4. It is assumed that:\na. A Commission on Restitution will be responsible for\nformulating policies, procedures, and actions to be used for the\nrestitution or replacement in kind of works of art and other cultural\nmaterials looted by the Germans or by thoir allies from territories\noccupied by them, and for the idontification or selection of objects\nto be used for those ourcoses.\nb. The Allied Military Government of Gormany is responsible\nfor holding and making available for restitution or replacement in kind\nall works of art and other cultural materials in Germany except those\nwhich were the property of ecclesiastical bodies before 1 Jan 1938 and\nfor implementing policies, procedures, and actions formulated by the\nRestitution Commission for the restitution or reolacement in kind of\nlooted works of art and other cultural materials.\nC. Rostitution or placement in kind of works of art and\nother cultural materials looted, stolen, or otherwise taken by violence,\nfraud, or undue influence from citizons of the Gorman Reich will be\naccomplished by logal action in the reorganized Gorman courts with the\nsuporvision and approval of the Allied Military Government.\nd. Appropriate moasures for the \"froozing\" and control of\nworks of art and other cultural materials will have been put into\noffect throughout GERHANY during the OVERLORD and ECLIPSE operations.\nThose will include:\n(1) Prohibition of movement, transfor, sale or\nexport, oithor by Gorman civilians or by Alliod por-\nsonnol, except as may be authorized by Allied Military\nGovernment.\n(2) Registration and recording of works of art\nand other cultural matorials, especially thoso acquired\nby Gorman institutions or individuals since 1 Jan 1938.\n(3) Where nocossary, taking of custody, through\nProporty Control Officers, and warchousing of works\nof art and other cultural matorials.\nC. Administrativo rolations which existed before occupation\nbetween Reich ministerial or other national MFA&A agoncios, including\nthose of the Prussian State, and similar agencios at the Land/Provinz\nor lower levels will have wholly or in largo moasure coased to exist\nprior to the ostablishmont of Alliod Control Council.\nSECRET\n- 2\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\nSECRET\nIV. MISSION OF THE MFA&A BRANCH:\n5. As the US component of the MFAM element of the Allied\nControl Staff, under supervision of the Diroctor of the RD&R Element,\nto recommend to the Allied Control Council for transmission to the\nZone Commanders information and directives necessary for:\na. The protection and prosorvation of monuments, works of\nart and other cultural matorials, and records in gerilany.\nb. The continuance, reconstitution, abolition, or docon-\ntralization of Gorman civilian MFA&A agencies at all levels, including\nthe votting, rotention, romoval, and roplacoment of appropriate\ncivilian porsonnel.\nC. The froozing and control of works of art and other\ncultural materials, to onsure their availability for rostitution or\nreplacement in kind, as doscribed above, Soc. III-4-d.\nd. Appropriate participation by MFA&A in the dissolution\nof the Nazi Party or its affiliated agoncios and in the disposal of\nrocords, symbols, or similar soquestrated proporty thoroof to muscums\nand other institutions oithor in GERMANY or in other countrios.\nO. The rostitution and replacement in hind of works of art\nand othor cultural materials lootod by the Gormans or their allios, in\naccordance with policios, procedures, and actions rocommended by tho\nRestitution Commission.\nf. Administration and exploitation of rocords for the\noffectivo operation of the Allied Military Government, in so far as\nthis is not covered by tho mission of the appropriate intolligonce\nagencios.\n6. is the MFA&A Branch of the staff of the Commanding Goneral,\neto, in his capacity as US member of the Allied Control Council, under\nsupervision of the Diroctor of the RD&R Division, to advise other\nstaff soctions and the Commanding Gonoral in mattors in which IFA&A\nhas a concorn.\nV.\nACTIONS TO B | TAKEN:\n7. is part of the HEASA elemont of the Alliod Control Staff,\nunder supervision of the Director of the RD&R Element:\na. Propare information and diroctivos for rocommondation\nto the Allied Control Council as nocessary to accomplish the missions\nset forth in Sec. IV-5.\nb. Establish a joint socrotariat and filos for the collec-\ntion, analysis, and dissomination of information rolating to the\ncontrol and rostitution or replacement in kind of works of art and\nother cultural matorials, and for the rocording of claims and\ndeliverios in connection thorowith.\nC. Intograte the MFA&A joint socrotariat and filos with\nthe joint secrotoriat and filos establishod by the RD&R olomont of\nthe Allied Control Staff.\nd. Arrango for the roceipt and transmission of lifaca\ninformation through proscribed channels:\n(1) to and from bodios, as the Restitution\nCommission, recognized by the Alliod Control Council\nas compotent for this purpose.\nS I C R E T\n3\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby\nthe\nFisenhower\nSECRET\n7. d. (Cont'd)\n(2) to and from each national MFASA branch, when\nSO required for transmission to or receipt from the\nrospectivo national Zonos.\nO. Establish Alliod control over and transmit orders of the\nAlliod Control Council to the Reich ministorial and other national MFA&A\nagencios, including those of the Prussian State.\n8. is the HEASA olomont of the staff of the Commanding Genoral,\neto, in his capacity 0.8 US member of the Alliod Control Council, under\nsupervision of the Director of the RD&R Division:\nC. Arrango for the receipt and transmission of MFA&A informa-\ntion through prescribed channels:\n(1) to and from the MFA&A cloment on the staff of the\nCommanding Gonoral; et0, in his capacity C.S Commandor-in-\nChicf of the US Zonc.\n(2) to and from appropriate US agencies at higher lovels,\nC.S the American Commission for the Protoction and Salvage of\nArtistic and Historic Monuments in Ter Aroas.\nb. Advise other divisions or branchos of the staff of the\nCommanding Gonoral, eto, in his capacity L.S US member of the Allied\nControl Council on MFAMA matters, such as:\n(1) Education: on the administration and personnel\nof muscums, librarios, and collections.\n(2) Roligious Affairs: on monumonts, works of art\nand other cultural matorials, and records, and on the\nadministration and porsonnol thereof, belonging to\nocclesiastical bodios.\n(3) Administration and Local Government: on the\nadministration and personnol of Archivos and on problems\nof civil service status.\n(4) Logal: on regulations necessary for the protoc-\ntion, \"froozing\", and control of monuments, works of art\nand other cultural matorials, and records.\n(5) Public Safety: for polico, firo, and civil defense\nmeasures to protect monuments and for votting Gorman\ncivilian personnel.\n(6) Financo: on the pay and maintonance of the civil\nMFA&A administration and on moasures of frontier control\nover the movement of works of art.\nc. Adviso other branches of the US RDAR Division on HFA&A\nmattors, such as:\n(1) Property Control: on the taking of custody and\nwarchousing of works of art.\n(2) Restitution: on the forms and proceduros to bc\nfollowed in offocting rostitution or replacement in\nkind of works of art and other cultural matorials.\n(3) Dolivorios: on the procodure for the dolivery of\nobjects to be restored or used for replacement in kind.\nd. Advisc and assist the MEANA clomont of the staff of the\nCommanding Gonoral, што, in his capacity as Commandor-in-Chiof of the\nUS Zono, and perform such further staff functions as ho may diroct.\nSECRIT\n- 4\nElectrostatic reproduction made\nby the Eisenhower Library for\npreservation purposes"
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