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    "ocrText": "REPARATIONS & RESTITUTIONS\nfound to contain neither loot nor German owned objects of great national importance\nthey are turned back to local custodians, either the Buergomeister or some other re-\nliable individual. Other repositories are writcen off the records when they are\ntotally evacuated, destroyed or their contents proved unimportant. In this manner\nthe total number of repositories for which United States Forces are now responsible\nwill be reduced. Only those repositories requiring especially vigilant protection\nbecause of their contents will be guarded until their final evacuation.\nRepositories often are found to contain a mixture of cultural objects. An\nanalysis of the contents of all repositories so far reported reveals that 478 contain\nworks of art, 174 archives, 150 libraries, 40 scientific collections and 123 mixed.\nLooted objects have been found in 85 of these caches.\nThe condition of German cultural collections remaining in their original\nplace of abode indicates that of a total of 22 inspected in the Western Military\nDistrict, four were partly destroyed or looted and five were totally destroyed. No\nreports were available from the Eastern Military District.\nThe following charts indicate the present status of repositories; the\n\"dead\" ones representing those over which United States responsibility has ceased,\nfor one of the reasons stated above.\nMFA&A REPOSITORIES - U. S. ZONE, GEEMANY\n30 September 1945\nRegion\nAs of 31 Aug\nAdditions\nTotal\nReleased Dur-\nCurrent Total\n1945\nDuring Sept.\ning Sept.\nBAYERN\n385\n63\n448\n32\n416\nWURTEMBERG\n53\n9\n62\n4\n58\nBADEN\n49\n3\n52\n4\n48\nKURHESSEN\nNASSAU\n143\n23\n166\n32\n134\nEREMEN\n3\n-\n3\n-\n3\nBERLIN\n5\n-\n5\n-\n5\n638**\n98\n736\n72\nTOTAL\n664\nSee following table, giving break=down.\nThe figure of 677, given in the monthly report for August 1945, included by mistake\n39 Austrian repositories.\nSEPTEMBER 1945\n-4-"
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