Civilian Agency Records
State Department and Foreign Affairs Records
General Records of the Department of State (RG 59)
Records of The Legal Adviser
The Legal Adviser, Green H. Hackworth, handled all matters of a legal nature for the Department throughout the war.
Records Relating to Postwar Settlement Issues, 1939-1963
Includes records relating to the postwar Paris Conference on Reparations, the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency (IARA), restitution of monetary gold, and defrosting of previously frozen assets.
Boxes 1-26 (Lot File 70D516)
| Box # | File Titles |
|---|---|
| 1 | Paris Conference Preparations Paris Conference on Reparations Documents; II Paris Conference on Reparations Minutes 11/10/45-12/45; 12/5/45-12/21/45 |
| 2 | Paris Conference Final Report IARA (Inter Allied Reparations Agency) IA; IB; IC |
| 3-6 | IARA ID; IIA; IIB; IIC; IIIA; IIIB; IV; VA; VI; VII; VIII; IX |
| 7-8 | IARA X; XI vol 1; XI vol II; XII vol III 1950; XIII vol IV 1950; XIV vol V 1951; XV vol VI 1951-1952 |
| 9-10 | IARA XVI 1953-1955; IARA XVII 1956-1959; IARA XVIII 1956 |
| 10 | IARA Brassert IARA Committee of Experts |
| 11 | IARA Dismantling Unit Refugee FUND IARA |
| 12 | Gold Declaration 1941 Gold General Gold Netherlands Gold Pot and Distribution Gold Protocol Rumania Gold and Private Loans Gold Turkey Looted Gold Non Monetary Gold Siamese Gold; Siamese Gold Claim |
| 13 | Spanish Gold Loan to Portuguese IARA Gold I 1945 March 1948; IARA Gold II April-October 1948; IARA Gold III November 1948-October 1949 |
| 14 | IARA Gold IV November 1949-November 1950; IARA Gold V April 1950-December 1950; IARA Gold VI January 1950; IARA Gold VII January 1951-1952 |
| 15-18 | IARA Gold VII August 1, 1952; IARA Gold VIII1952; IARA Gold IX; IARA Gold X 1955-1956; IARA Gold XI 1957; IARA Gold XII January-May 1958; IARA Gold XIII June-December 1958; IARA Gold XIV January-August 1959; IARA Gold XV September 1959 |
| 18-19 | IARA Gold Albano Italy 1945-1951 I; 1952II; IARA Gold Albano Italy 1953 III; 1954 IV; 1954-59 V; |
| 19 | Albanian Gold Claim June 1958 |
| 19-20 | I-AF Albanian Gold Claim 1945-1950 I; I-AFAlbanian Gold Claim 1951-1952 II |
| 20 | I-AF Albanian Gold Claim III Gold Arbitration I-AF Albanian Gold Claim 1953 IV |
| 21 | I-AF Albanian Gold Case V Documents Concerning the Monetary Gold of the Bank of Albania APC (Alien Property Custodian) General 1945-1946 |
| 22 | APC General 1947-1957 |
| 22-23 | APC Exec Comm I; II; III |
| 23 | APC Judicial Representations APC Letters Abroad (copies) APC Litigation APC Subversive Activities in Latin America APC Orders APC Patent License to Government APC Property Liquidation APC Property Liquidation pending APC Patent Policy |
| 24 | APC Religious and Charitable Property; APC Repatriates Property; APC Reports; APC Trip; APC Vestings Defrosting I 1939-1946; Defrosting I-A Securities 1944-1945 |
| 25 | Defrosting II Feb. 1947-Oct. 1948; Defrosting III Nov. 1948-1950 |
| 25-26 | Defrosting IV Legislation; Defrosting V Legislation;Defrosting VI 1955- |
| 26 | Defrosting VII General License and Rulings Defrosting VIII 1950 |
Records Relating to German Assets, 1942-1959 (Lot File 60D139)
Boxes 1-43
| Box # | File Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Legislation 82nd Congress, 83rd Congress Legislation 83rd Congress Correspondence |
| 2 | Legislation 84th Congress; Legislation 84th CongressCorrespondence |
| 2-3 | Legislation 84th Congress Satellite Assets |
| 3 | Legislation 85th Congress; Legislation 85th CongressCorrespondence Extension of Time 1949-1954 |
| 4 | Legislation General 1949-50, 1951 |
| 5 | Legislation First Decontrol Act of 1947; Legislation1943-1944; Legislation Miscellaneous 1945-1946; Legislation |
| 6 | Legislation HR 5089 (1946) Legislation Creditor's Bill HR 5089, HR 6890 (1946) Legislation Patents Boykin Act (1946) |
| 7 | Legislation Returns (1946); Legislation Claims (1945) Legislation Trademarks (1943-1946) Legislation Claims (1942-1947); Legislation Claims (1946) |
| 8 | Legislation Gearhart Bills 1944 Legislation Transfer of German and Japanese Assets from Treasury to APC and Recommendations to Congress |
| 9 | Albania APC; Albania Defrosting Argentina APC; Argentina Defrosting Australia APC Belgium APC; Belgium Claims; Belgium Controls; Belgium Defrosting though 1945; Belgium Defrosting through 1946; Belgium Desequestration; Belgium general; Belgium patents Bolivia APC; Bolivia Controls Brazil APC; Brazil Controls Canada APC; Canada Claims Chile APC China Claims Colombia APC; Colombia Trade Costa Rica Niehaus Case E. Mauer's APC |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia Defrosting Czechoslovakia Sudeten, Status of Denmark APC; Denmark Claims; Denmark Defrosting Egypt Blocking El Salvador APC Estonia APC; Estonia Defrosting Finland APC; Finland Claims; Finland Defrosting |
| 11 | France APC; France Claims; France Controls 1939-1950; France Defrosting 9/44-6/45; France Defrosting July-December 1944; France Defrosting 1948-1950 |
| 11-12 | France Claims |
| 12 | Greece APC; Greece Defrosting Guatemala APC Haiti APC; Haiti Replacement Program 1946-1948 Iraq APC Ireland APC Korea APC; Korea Claims; Korea Defrosting Latvia Defrosting; Latvia APC; Latvia Claims Lebanon APC; Lebanon Currency Liechtenstein APC Lithuania APC; Lithuania Defrosting Luxembourg APC; Luxembourg Defrosting; Luxembourg Patents Malaya Defrosting |
| 12-13 | Mexico APC |
| 13 | Antitrust Files SYNTAX Mexico SA Mexican Claims Netherlands Claims 1946-1947; Netherlands Claims 1948; Netherlands Claims 1949-1950; Netherlands Claims APC 1950; Netherlands Claims October 1950; Netherlands Defrosting 1945- 1946; Netherlands Defrosting Loans; Netherlands Defrosting 1947; Netherlands Looted Securities |
| 14 | Netherlands Decrees; Netherlands APC 1946-1949; Netherlands Looted Securities Norway APC; Norway Claims; Norway Controls; Norway Defrosting; Norway Intercustodial; Norway Patents |
| 15 | Panama Trade Peru APC Philippines APC Poland APC; Poland Claims; Poland Defrosting Portuguese Accord |
| 16 | Portuguese Accord Surrey File Portugal Accord; Portugal Accord Post File |
| 17 | Portugal Accord; Portugal Defrosting; Portugal E. Mauer |
| 18 | Portugal E. Mauer Portuguese Accord EMS File Rumania Claims 1946-1948; Rumania Claims 1948-1950; Rumania Defrosting Spain Accord; Spain Accord 1947; Spain Accord 1950-1952; Spain Accord 1953-1956; Spain Accord 1956 Spain Defrosting |
| 19 | Sweden Accord; Sweden Accord 1949-1954; Sweden Accord; Sweden Accord 1955-1956; Sweden Accord Supplement Svensk-Amerikanska Tradkompaniet SAB Bergslags Vardin AB Sweden Defrosting Swiss Accord Claims Switzerland Patents Thai Claims Turkey Accord United Kingdom Patents USSR Committees Venezuela APC Yugoslavia Claims Yugoslavia Defrosting 1945-1947; 1948-1950 |
| 20 | Austria APC German Assets in Austria Final Report Oil; (Annexes) Austrian Contracts; Austria Defrosting German Assets in Austria Final Report Banks Austrian Looted Securities Austria Restitution |
| 21 | Austrian Trade German Assets in Austria Final Report-Insurance German Assets in Austria Final Report-State Property German Assets in Austria Final Report-Creditor Claims German Assets in Austria Final Report DDSG German Assets in Austria Final Report Industry |
| 22 | German Assets in Austria Final Report Industry (Annexes) Austrian Treaty Commission U.S. Delegation Special Industry Reports German Assets in Italy; German Assets in Italy 1954; German Assets in Italy 1955-1956; German Assets in Italy 1957 German Assets in Italy Claims |
| 23 | German Assets Claims |
| 23-24 | Germany APC |
| 24 | Germany Claims; German Controls 1949-1950 |
| 24-25 | German Assets in Latin America |
| 26 | Germany Copyrights Germany Divesting Law Germany Immigration Germany Patents; German Patents June 1946; German Patents 1947-1948 Accord on German Owned Patents German Patents |
| 27 | German Refugees German Restitution 2/50-4/50; 5/50-8/50; 9/50-10/50; 10/50-12-50 |
| 28 | German Rolling Stock 11/46-11/47; 1/48-12/48; 1/49-3/50; 4/50 Germany Trade Germany Trademarks 1946; 1947; 1948-8/50; 9/50-1955 |
| 29 | German Treaty German Validation Ordinance German Assets in Austria 1946; 1948; 1948-1950 German External Assets |
| 30 | German Assets in Hungary German Assets in Italy 1946-7/48; 1/49-7/49; 8/49-12/49 Intercustodial Agreement US-UK-Canada I; II; III Intercustodial Documents I; II |
| 31 | Intercustodial Preparations I; II; III; IV; V |
| 32 | Intercustodial Problems I; II; III Intercustodial Meetings I; II; III |
| 32-33 | Intercustodial ARA Assembly |
| 33 | Maurer Intercustodial I; II Drafts |
| 34-35 | Maurer Intercustodial III; IV; V; VI; VII; (no VIII was located); IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI |
| 36 | Simsarian Intercustodial I: II: III: IV: V: VI: VII: VIII: (no IX was located) X Surrey Intercustodial I M H Cardozo Intercustodial Intercustodial I January 1947 |
| 37-39 | Intercustodial I; Intercustodial II 1947;III 1947; IV December 1947; I 1948; II 1948; I 1949; II 1949; III 1949; I 1950; II1950; I 1951; July 1951 |
| 39 | Intercustodial Current Reichsmark I Mr. Maurer; Reichsmark II Mr. Maurer; Reichsmark III Mr. Maurer |
| 40-42 | Reichsmark IV (V and VI were not located);VII; (VIII and IX were not located); X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII |
| 42 | Cover Accounts Vol I A-K; Cover Accounts Vol II L-Z U.S. Issued Securities-Certificates in Holland as Claimed by the U.S. |
Records of the Legal Adviser Relating to War Crimes
Records Relating to German War Crimes 1942-1946 (Entry 1368)
Boxes 1-5
| Box # | File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 1 | Asylum in Neutral Countries (3 folders) |
| 4 | War Crimes-Industrialists War Crimes-Jewish Atrocities |
| 5 | Attrocities against Jews |
Records Relating to U.S. Participation in the U.N. War Crimes Commission 1943-1949 (Entry 1369)
Boxes 6-16 - United Nations War Crimes Commission
Lists of War Criminals 1944-1948 (Entry 1370) - Boxes 16-21
Records of the Assistant Legal Advisers
Subject Files of the Assistant Legal Adviser for European Affairs relating to Germany and Austria, 1945-1960 (Entry 1311) (lot File 59D609)
Boxes 2-26
Germany
| Box # | File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 5 | Claims files 1953-1958 |
| 10 | Restitution - Internal 1958 |
Austria
| Box # | File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 20 | Property Claims of U.S. Citizens Claims Settlement Agreement |
General Records of the Assistant Legal Adviser for German Affairs relating to Germany and Austria 1946-1956 (Entry 1314) (Lot File 57D54)
Boxes 27-40
Austria - Box 30 - Whole box on Austrian Looted Securities
Records of the Personal Representative of the President to Pope Pius XII 1942-1950
President Roosevelt appointed Myron C. Taylor as his personal representative to Pope Pius XII on December 23, 1939. Taylor arrived in Rome in February 1940 and spent several months investigating civilian refuge problems and the possibilities for peace. Thereafter he visited Rome periodically and became President Truman's personal representative to Pius XII in 1946. During Taylor's absences from Vatican City, relations with the Vatican were maintained by a small staff of Foreign Service officers. His assistant from 1941-1946, Harold H. Tittman, Jr., was Charge d'Affaires on various occasions; thus much of the correspondence described below is with Tittman. (Note 22)
Index to Decimal File 1944 and 1945 (Entry 1065)
An index on 3x5-inch cards, to records in the 1944 and 1945 portion of the decimal file in Entry 1068. Each entry gives the classification under which the document was filed. Some entries include a brief description of the document. Arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Box 1.
Index To The Decimal File 1947 (Entry 1066)
An index on 3x5-inch cards, to the 1947 portion of the decimal file in Entry 1068. Each entry gives a short summary of the document and the classification under which it was filed. Arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Box 1.
Index to Instructions Received April 20, 1944-February 25, 1947 (Entry 1067)
An index on 3x5-inch cards, to instructions from the Department of State to the personal representative of the President. Each entry gives the date of the instruction, its subject, the classification under which it was filed, and its security classification. Arranged numerically. Box 1.
Decimal File 1944-1950 (Entry 1068)
Telegrams, despatches, reports, and letters between Taylor and his staff and the Department of State, other U.S. Government agencies, the Vatican, and the Italian Government. Also included is some semipersonal correspondence. Included in the records is information on political affairs, Jews, refugees and relief activities, German-owned property in Rome, property rights, the Vatican Bank. Arranged chronologically by year and thereunder according the Foreign Service Classification Manual. Records for 1944 and 1945 are filed together. A box and folder list is available in the consultation area in Room 2600. Boxes 1-27.
| Year | Box# | File# | File Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-1945 | 4 | 310 | Jews |
| 6 | 711 711.4 |
German diplomats in Vatican City Axis diplomats residing in Vatican |
|
| 7 | 711.4 711.5 |
German-owned property Enemy diplomats in Vatican City |
|
| 8 | 800 | Hungarian refugees in Austria and Bavaria | |
| 9 | 800.1 | Pope Pius XII's addresses | |
| 11 | 840.3 850 851 851.6 |
Boticelli's Madonna Economic matters Financial conditions Vatican banks, banking, and black list |
|
| 1946 | 13 | 711.3 800 |
German-owned property in Rome Displaced persons |
| 14 | 840.3 850.5 851 |
Fine arts Economic matters Financial matters and lands |
Confidential Correspondence File 1944-1947 (Entry 1069)
Letters, reports, memorandums that were kept separate from the main body of the 1944-1950 decimal file in Entry 1068. Most, but not all, of the documents were originally security classified. Arranged chronologically. Box 28
Register of Telegrams Sent and Received 1944-1949 (Entry 1070)
Lists of telegrams sent--August 20, 1944-July 22, 1948, July 11-December 31, 1948, and January 2, 1949-January 9, 1950; and telegrams received--January 3-October 31, 1949. Each entry gives the number of the telegram, its
classification, the date, and the subject. Arranged numerically by telegram number.
Box 29
Telegrams and Airgrams Sent January-December 1942 and June 1944-December 1949 (Entry 1071)
Copies of official telegrams and airgrams sent to the Department of State and various Foreign Service posts. Arranged as telegrams or airgrams and thereunder chronologically, except for one set of 1948 telegrams that is arranged
by Foreign Service post and thereunder chronologically.
Boxes 29-30
Telegrams and Airgrams Received 1942-1949 (Entry 1072)
Copies of official telegrams and airgrams received from the Department of State and various Foreign Service posts. Arranged chronologically, except for the 1948 telegrams from various Foreign Service posts that are arranged by post and thereunder chronologically. Those for 1946 and 1947 are arranged as telegrams or airgrams and thereunder chronologically. Boxes 31-32
Miscellaneous Subject Files 1944-1949 (Entry 1073)
Copies of letters, memorandums, reports, telegrams, and invitations to social functions. Included are such subject as Axis diplomats, war criminals, protocol, and statements and peace efforts of the Pope. Arranged alphabetically
subject.
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Boxes 33-34
Records of the Special Interrogation Mission to Germany, 1945-1946
In 1945, the Department of State sent a mission to Germany to interrogate former German government officials regarding German foreign relations, propaganda, the Nazi Party, and other subjects for the period 1939-1945. The mission, headed by DeWitt C. Poole, functioned from August 1945 to January 1946. Its purpose was to acquire political information from participants in the Nazi regime; to fill in gaps in the Department's knowledge of Nazi foreign policy and of Nazi activities abroad; reveal certain aspects of the operation of the Nazi administrative machine; and fix personal responsibility for major decisions and policies in the Third Reich.
Interrogations of Former High-LevelNazi Diplomatic and Military Officers 1945-1946 (Entry 1082)
The records are arranged alphabetically by surname. Reports on the Interrogations of Former German Government Officials. Each report includes biographical information of the person interrogated, the date, place and language(s)of the interrogation; the interrogator(s); the method of recording the interrogation and related pertinent materials concerning the subject of the interrogation and the person being interrogated. Most of the first three boxes of this material have been microfilmed as NARA Microfilm Publication M679, 3 rolls. The fourth box consists of material transferred to the National Archives in 1980. Although some of the folders have the same surname title as in boxes 1-3, the material is complementary and does not contain duplications. Boxes 1-4
| Roll # | Person Interrogated (note 23) | Microfilmed Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Backe, Herbert | 12 |
| Blaskowitz, Johannes | 4 | |
| Blomberg, Werner von (note 24) | 14 | |
| Boettichler, Friedrich von | 9 | |
| Bohle, Ernst Wilhem | 120 | |
| Borchers, Hans | 9 | |
| Bormann, Martin | see note | |
| Brandt, Karl | 1 | |
| Brauchitsch, Walter Heinrich von | 7 | |
| Busch, Walter | 6 | |
| C (Herwarth) | 19 | |
| Daluege, Kurt | 5 | |
| Darre, Walter (note 25) | 16 | |
| Dieckhoff, Hans Heinrich (note 26) | 18 | |
| Dirksen, Herbert von | 144 | |
| Doenitz, Karl von (note 27) | 8 | |
| Eberstein, Karl von | 25 | |
| Epp, Franz Ritter von | 4 | |
| Feldtange, Hanna (note 28) | 5 | |
| Frank, Hans | 35 | |
| Frank, Karl Hermann | 2 | |
| Frick, Wilhelm | 19 | |
| Funk, Walter | 2 | |
| Gienanth, Ulrich von (note 29) | 9 | |
| Goering, Hermann | 179 | |
| Gottfriedsen, Bernd (note 30) | 13 | |
| Guderian, Heinz | 7 | |
| Haushofer, Karl | 15 | |
| 2 | Hencke, Andor (note 31) | 159 |
| Hepp, Ernst Adolf (note 32) | 11 | |
| Herwarth, Hans Heinrich (note 33) | 75 | |
| Hess, Rudolf | 7 | |
| Hessen, Philip von Prinz | 3 | |
| Hewel, Walter | 1 | |
| Hilger, Gustav | 4 | |
| Horthy, Nicholaus | 9 | |
| Hoyningen-Huene, Oswald (note 34) | 8 | |
| Jodl, Alfred (note 35) | 9 | |
| Kaltenbrunner, Ernst | 3 | |
| Keitel, Wilhelm (note 36) | 11 | |
| Keppler, Wilhelm | 27 | |
| Klee, Eugen (note 37) | 7 | |
| Kleeberg, Gerhard Johannes Georg | 5 | |
| Koecher, Otto | 8 | |
| Koerner, Paul | 2 | |
| Kolbe, Fritz | 8 | |
| Kordt, Erich (note 38) | 27 | |
| Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm | 1 | |
| Kuehlmann, Richard von | 5 | |
| Lahousen, Erwin | 9 | |
| Lammers, Hans Heinrich | 32 | |
| Ley, Robert | 17 | |
| Loesch, Karl Heinrich von | 21 | |
| Meissner, Otto (note 39) | 90 | |
| Mentizinger, Joseph Hermann F. (note 40) | 7 | |
| Nagel, Jacob (note 41) | 3 | |
| Heubacher, Hermann (note 42) | 36 | |
| Neurath, Constantin von | 11 | |
| 3 | Niebuhr, Dietrich (note 43) | 16 |
| Ohnesorge, Wilhelm | 1 | |
| Paeffgen, Theodor | 9 | |
| Papen Franz von | 100 | |
| Prittwitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von | 4 | |
| Rekowski, Carl Berthold Franz | 7 | |
| Reinecke, Hermann | see note | |
| Ribbentrop, Joachim von | 32 | |
| Riecke, Hans J | see note | |
| Ritter, Karl (note 44) | 8 | |
| Rosenberg, Alfred | see note | |
| Sauckel, F | see note | |
| Schacht, Horace Greely Hjalmer | 7 | |
| Schmidt, Paul Otto Gustav | 96 | |
| Schirach, Baldur von (note 45) | see note | |
| Scholz, Gerda (note 46) | 37 | |
| Schwarz, Franz Xaver | 5 | |
| Schwerin Kosigk von | see note | |
| Seldte, Franz | see note | |
| Seyss-Inquart, Arthur | see note | |
| Six, Franz Alfred and Mahnke, Horst | 179 | |
| Speer, Albert | see note | |
| Steengracht, Moyland von | 16 | |
| Steinhaeuser, Conrad (note 47) | 3 | |
| Strempel, Heribert von | 8 | |
| Streicher, Julius | see note | |
| Stroelin, Karl | 22 | |
| Stukant, Wilhelm | see note | |
| Tannenberg, Wilhelm Ernst August (note 48) | 7 | |
| Tannenberg, Wilhelm Ernst August Box | 4 | |
| Thomas, George (note 49) | 11 | |
| Thomas, George Box | 4 | |
| Thomsen, Hans (note 50) | 8 | |
| Thomsen, Hans Box | 4 | |
| Tuetzechler, Heinz von Falkenstein (note 51) | 26 | |
| Tuetzechler, Heinz von Falkenstein Box | 4 | |
| Twardowski, Fritz Ernst | 3 | |
| Veesenmayer, Edmund | 30 | |
| Veesenmayer, Edmund Box | 4 | |
| Warlimont, Walter | 48 | |
| Warlimont, Walter Box | 4 |
