OMGUS - Cultural Affairs Branch
Records: 19,799Complete: 100%
Upon entering Germany in 1944, the U.S. Army was ordered to seize any property that had been transferred under duress or through wrongful acts of confiscation or disposition, and to block the relocation of artworks and cultural materials regardless of ownership. Such items, looted by the Nazis, came under U.S. government control until they could be returned to their rightful owners. These records pertain to those objects and their restitution.
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"Records Relating to Monuments, Museums, Libraries, Archives, and Fine Arts of the Cultural Affairs Branch, OMGUS, 1946-1949" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/757/omgus-cultural-affairs-branch: accessed December 2, 2022)
- Publication Title
- OMGUS - Cultural Affairs Branch
- Total Records
- 19,799Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- M1921
- Record Group
- 260
- Published on Fold3
- 23 Apr 2011
- Last Updated
- 01 Aug 2011
- Description
- NARA M1921. Records relating to monuments, museums, libraries, archives, and fine arts of the Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone (OMGUS) in post-war Germany, 1946-1949.