Military Agency Records
Theaters of Operations
Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 260)
Office of the Finance Adviser and the Finance Division
FINANCE DIVISION
Records Regarding Financial Policy and Advising
Correspondence and Related Records
General Records (“Floater File”), 1947–1948 (A1, Entry 550)
Boxes 1–8
Correspondence and Other Records Maintained by Colonel David L. Robinson, Jr., 1945–1946 (A1, Entry 551)
Box 9
Correspondence and Other Records Maintained by Joseph M. Dodge, 1945–1946 (A1, Entry 552)
Box 10
Miscellaneous Correspondence and Other Records, 1945–1946 (A1, Entry 553)
Boxes 11–13
Miscellaneous Records
Records Pertaining to Policy and Procedures (“Policy File”), 1946–1948 (A1, Entry 555)
Boxes 21–40
| Box # | Selected File Title |
|---|---|
| 22 | Banking: Restitution of Looted Movable Assets |
| Banking Committee: I.G. Farben | |
| 24 | Claims by Military Missions on Behalf of Their Nationals |
| 26 | Decartelization: Deconcentration of German Economic Power, etc. |
| Decartelization: Insurance Industry | |
| 27 | Elimination of Excessive Economic Power in Insurance |
| 28 | I.G. Farben Report |
| 29 | Foreign Currencies and Securities Found in Germany |
| Former German Economic Ministry: Liquidation of Funds of Former German Diplomatic Missions Abroad and Return of German Military Internees | |
| 30 | Insurance |
| 31 | Insurance |
| 33 | Polish Property: Confiscation of Precious Metal Requirements for Germany |
| Procedures for the Release of Non-German Securities Properties; Disposition of Reich-Owned Property of Interned Germans | |
| 35 | Reparation |
| 36 | Report by the I.G. Farben Control Committee |
| Restitution: Miscellaneous | |
| Restitution of Securities Restitutions | |
| 37 | Securities: Non-German Release of Hungarian Gold Restitution History |
| 38 | Subcommittee for Insurance |
| Subcommittee for Property Control | |
| 39 | Swiss Property: German Owned |
Miscellaneous Records Relating to Blocking, Cloaking, and Identification of Assets, 1944–1945 (A1, Entry 556)
This series contains files pertaining to Nazis traveling and closing out accounts; German control of banking in Europe; German financial activities in France; Safehaven reports on suspect companies; and Swiss law on blocking assets. Also included are numerous reports on Switzerland and ledgers written in German.
Boxes 41–43
Records Regarding Investigations
Records Regarding Bank Investigations, 1945–1949 (A1, Entry 557)
This series consists of memorandums, letters, cables, reports, exhibits, newspaper clippings, and civil censorship intercepts on the financing of the German war effort and German financial institutions. The records include reports on Nazi gold, the use of Swiss banks, and links between German and Swiss banks, inclusive of Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Golddiskontbank, Dresdner Bank, and Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft. The investigations contain information regarding Aryanization, bank operations outside of Germany, industrial ties, liquidation proposals, and the restitution of Hungarian property.
This series is available on NARA Microfilm Publication M1923, Rolls 1–6.
Records Relating to Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945–1947 (A1, Entry 558)
This series consists of interrogation reports and transcripts, exhibits, and questionnaires. Names included are Bernhard Berghaus, Alois Alzheimer, August von Finck, Eduard Hilgard, Kurt Schmitt, and Franz Schwede-Coburg. Also among these records are files relating to Carlowitz & Company and Japanese firms operating in Germany.
This series is available on NARA Microfilm Publication M1923, Rolls 6–8.
Financial Institutions Branch
Records Relating to Insurance and Central Bank Policies, 1945–1948 (A1, Entry 559)
Boxes 59–63
| Box # | Selected File Title |
|---|---|
| 60 | Activities of Berlin Insurance Companies Outside Berlin |
| Berlin Insurance Companies | |
| Blocking Control, etc., and Insurance | |
| CC Law No. 57: Dissolution and Liquidation of Insurance Companies Connected with the German Labor Front I | |
| 61 | CC Law No. 57: Dissolution and Liquidation of Insurance Companies Connected with the German Labor Front II |
| Czechoslovakian Insurance Companies | |
| Correspondence: German Insurance Policies | |
| DAF Insurance Interests | |
| Death Risk Insurance | |
| 62 | Foreign Insurance Companies: German Laws and General |
| Insurance Companies in Berlin: Lists by Sectors | |
| Foreign Insurance Companies Operating in Germany | |
| War Risk Insurance Pool | |
| 63 | Insurance Supervision: U.S. Zone |
| Insurance Supervision: Berlin | |
| Insurance Committee: Agenda and Minutes | |
| Insurance: French Zone | |
| Insurance: Soviet Zone |
OFFICE OF THE FINANCE ADVISER
General Records Regarding Financial Policies and Military Government Legislation
General Records Regarding Financial Policy and Legislation, 1945–1949 (A1, Entry 560)
Boxes 64–77
Correspondence and Other Records Regarding Financial Policy and Operations, 1946–1949 (A1, Entry 562)
Boxes 90–103
Records Relating to Specific Functional Policy Programs
Records Pertaining to the Allied Bank Commission, 1948–1949 (A1, Entry 567)
Boxes 125–126
Records Relating to External Assets, 1946–1948 (A1, Entry 569)
Box 130
File Titles:
- Claims; Restitution
- External Assets
- Compensation
- GEPC [German External Property Commission]: Agenda and Minutes
- GEPC Material
- Procedures for the Release of Non-German Securities located in Germany or held outside of Germany in the name of German Banks, which securities are owned by persons permanently residing outside of Germany
- Switzerland
Records Relating to Financial Institution Policy, 1945–1949(A1, Entry 570)
Boxes 131–158
Records Relating to Foreign Exchange and Blocking Policies, 1946–1949 (A1, Entry 571)
Box 159
Records Regarding the Foreign Exchange Depository [FED], 1947–1949 (A1, Entry 572)
Boxes 160–167
| Box # | Selected File Title and/or Subject |
|---|---|
| 160 | Auswanderungterel: Prague |
| Authorizations for Assets Released by FED | |
| Claims, 1948–1949 | |
| Claims Instigated by Publicity Given Non-Monetary Gold Turned Over to IRO [International Refugee Organization] | |
| Correspondence re Transfer of Funds Out of Germany | |
| Crown Jewels | |
| Currencies: Currencies Restitution | |
| Currencies Section: FED | |
| Customs | |
| 161 | Dachau Envelopes |
| Disposition (Restitution) of Foreign Currencies and Securities Found in Germany | |
| Disposition of Valuables | |
| Eva Braun’s Assets [Note 54] | |
| Engraving Plates: German Currencies | |
| FED: FED Administration | |
| 162 | FED Correspondence Since 1 March 1948 |
| FED Daily Reports (1948–1949) | |
| FED Monthly Reports (1948–1949) | |
| FED-IRO [International Refugee Organization] | |
| FED Item No. 3; FED Item No. 32 | |
| 163 | FED Releases, 1948; FED Releases, 1949 |
| FED Tripartite Commission | |
| Foreign Exchange Depository | |
| 164 | Gold File (Brussels) |
| Göring Jewels | |
| Foreign Exchange Depository, 1948 | |
| 165 | Hohenzollern Jewels |
| Hungarian Gold | |
| Inquiries from Soviet Zone Concerning Stock Held in U.S. Zone | |
| International Bank for Reconstruction & Development | |
| Inventory of Certain Currencies & Securities | |
| 166 | Investment Moratorium |
| Krucken Case | |
| Pierre Laval Assets | |
| Licenses: Credit Lyonais | |
| Miscellaneous FEPG Policy | |
| Monetary Gold | |
| Monetary Gold, 1948–1949 | |
| 167 | Non-Monetary Gold Turnover of 5 September 1947 |
| Non Monetary Gold [Contains file 1/167/5 which contains SS Captain Melmer's statement [Note 55], cables, and complete inventory of items transferred to PCIRO [Note 56] in September 1947.] | |
| Precious Metals Other Than Gold and Silver | |
| Restitution of Coins | |
| Restitution of Monetary Gold | |
| Weekly Reports of Items Held at FED, 3 September 1948–22 April 1949 | |
| U.S. Dollars: FED | |
| Reports Covering the Discovery, Removal, etc., of Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Currency |
Subordinate Agencies
Financial Intelligence Group
General Records, 1945–1949 (A1, Entry 573)
Boxes 168–226
Records Regarding Intelligence and Financial Investigations, 1945–1949 (A1, Entry 574)
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Reports, balance sheets, memorandums, and civil censorship intercepts dealing with the gathering of financial information. Includes reports of bank statistics, lists of bank assets and balance sheets; material relating to policy decisions in the construction of local military government financial administrations; records concerning agricultural cooperatives; reports on bank investigations, including a "Report on the Investigation of the Deutsche Bank," dated November 1946, by the Financial Investigations Section, Finance Division, OMGUS; records, including exhibits and reports of interrogations, relating to denazification of German finance personnel; an interrogation report of former Reichsminister of Economics and Plenipotentiary for the War Economy Hjalmer Schacht; a report on the operations of I.G. Farben A.G., 1945; plans for Operation "Goldcup;" i.e., the seizure of Reich ministerial records; information relating to fiscal conditions in former German-occupied countries, and a report of banking in the Soviet zone.
This series is available on NARA Microfilm Publication M1925, Rolls 1–9.
| Roll # | Selected File Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | American Zone: Report of Selected Bank Statistics |
| Augsburg: Personnel - Dismissals and Replacements | |
| Austrian Accounts Reconciliation | |
| 2 | Balance Sheets of Land Control Banks |
| Blacklist (Berlin) Working File | |
| Black List (Berlin): Working File | |
| Commerzbank Frankfurt: Stock Exchange | |
| Currency and Bank Statistics | |
| 3 | Denazification |
| Depositions and Interrogations | |
| Deutsche Bank: Report | |
| Deutsche Industriebank: List of Loan Accounts | |
| Dresdner Bank | |
| 4 | Farben Report (I.G. Farben) |
| Finance Statistics Meetings | |
| Financial and Economic Six-Month Review | |
| 5 | Frankfurt Stock Exchange |
| German Finance Personnel | |
| GOLDCUP | |
| Hunke, Heinrich: Preliminary Interrogation | |
| Intelligence Information on Fiscal Conditions in Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Denmark | |
| 6 | Intelligence Information on Fiscal Condition in Denmark |
| Länder Reports Immediately After Currency Reform | |
| Munich Stock Exchange | |
| Nürnberg: Removal Orders for Personnel of Financial Institutions | |
| Potential Ministerial Personnel | |
| 7 | Reichsbank Reports |
| Reichsfinanzministerium | |
| Interrogations of Ohlendorf | |
| Removal of Nazis and Militarists | |
| Russian Zone Banking | |
| Rüstungskontor GmbH | |
| Schacht, Hjalmar | |
| 8 | Steel Industry Organization |
| Stock Exchange and Stock Statistics | |
| Tax Revenues Worksheets | |
| Weekly Report of Activities (1948–1949) | |
| White List | |
| Wirtschaftsgruppe Rück- und Kreditversicherung (Munich Re-Insurance Company; Dr. Alois Alzheimer) | |
| 9 | Working Party on Uniform Public Finance Statistics |
| Württemberg-Baden: Interim Balance Sheets for Banks | |
| Year-End Statements |
Reports of Assets and Liabilities of Insurance Institutions, 1947–1948 (A1, Entry 577)
Boxes 260–264
Internal and External Finance Group and Its Predecessors
Predecessor Branches
Correspondence and Related Records of the Foreign Exchange Policy Group, December 1945–August 1948 (A1, Entry 578)
Boxes 265–267
Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch
The Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch had as its responsibilities the blocking, administering, and disposing of certain categories of property within Germany, and of controlling the use of foreign exchange assets. In order to achieve the financial controls necessary for the attainment of Allied objectives in Germany, two basic laws were imposed upon the occupied areas of Germany and made effective as of the day of such occupation. These were Military Government Law No. 52 (Blocking Control Law) and Military Government Law No. 53 (Foreign Exchange Control Law). Having been in effect throughout the SHAEF occupation period, they remained in force in the U.S. Zone as well as the British and French Zones. Similar controls implemented by somewhat parallel laws were in effect in the Russian Zone.
The controls were put into effect to ensure German firms and individuals could not participate in international cartels or other restrictive contracts and arrangements. Military Government Law No. 53 prohibited any financial transactions involving persons inside Germany with any persons outside Germany, provided for the declaration of all German external claims, provided for the delivery and surrender of all foreign exchange assets to the various local Reichsbanks which in turn furnished full information concerning such assets to the Military Government, and prohibited the importation of all currency and foreign exchange assets into Germany and the exportation of all values from Germany. The law also contained provisions for the licensing of prohibited transactions, thus offering the possibility for a resumption of normal foreign exchange transactions, insofar as they were in accord with the objectives of the Military Government.
Military Government Law No. 52 was promulgated upon the occupation of Germany. This law blocked all property owned or controlled directly or indirectly in whole or in part by the Reich or any political subdivision or agency thereof, the Nazi Party and affiliated organizations, all persons who were high in the political and economic life of Germany, and persons residing outside of Germany. Moreover, property which had been the subject of transfer under duress or wrongful acts and confiscation was also blocked. The Law not only blocked the property but also gave to the Military Government the right to seize, take title to, and manage or control any such property. Another provision of the Law prohibited all transactions in blocked property except as licensed by the Military Government.
Records of the Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch and of the Foreign Exchange Policy Group, 1945–1948 (A1, Entry 579)
Boxes 268–294
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 268 | Absentee Ownership: Military Government Law 52 |
| Absentee Ownership | |
| Accounts Blocked Under Military Government Law 52 | |
| Accounts Blocked Under Military Government Law 53 | |
| 269 | Administration of Military Government in U.S. Zone |
| American Insurance in Foreign Countries | |
| Assets Allied In Germany | |
| 270 | Austrian Securities |
| Bank Accounts | |
| Bank Decentralization | |
| Bank Deutsche Laender | |
| Bank Land Control | |
| 271 | Bank of England Account |
| Banking | |
| Banks and Financial Institutions | |
| 272 | Belgium |
| Blocked Accounts | |
| Blocking–Unblocking | |
| 273 | Blocking Procedures |
| Blocking and Unblocking of Funds and Property | |
| Business Interests in Germany | |
| 274 | Cables |
| Canada | |
| Cartels | |
| Censorship | |
| 275 | Claims |
| Chronological File: Secret and Confidential, 1947 | |
| 276 | Confiscation |
| Control Council | |
| Conferences | |
| Credit Instruments | |
| CROWCASS [Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects] | |
| 277 | Currency Section |
| Currencies and Securities | |
| Customs Studies | |
| Cutlery of F.W. Engles | |
| Czechoslovakia | |
| 278 | Daily Reports |
| Decentralization | |
| Denazification | |
| Deportees | |
| Devisen (Foreign Exchange Laws in Germany) | |
| Digest for Germany and Austria | |
| Directives; Laws; Miscellaneous | |
| 279 | Distribution of Foreign Currency |
| Enemy Property Custodian | |
| Enforcement | |
| Displaced Persons | |
| Disposal of Blocked Assets | |
| 280 | Expelles |
| Export–Import | |
| External Assets | |
| I.G. Farben | |
| 281 | Federal Reserve Bank (Fusion Agreement) |
| Finance Bulletins and Ordinances | |
| Finance Directorate-General | |
| Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch Finance Reports | |
| Finance and Property Control Section [Monthly reports] | |
| 282 | Financial Personalities [Included is information from or about Dr. Sigfried Arndt, Freiherr Schenk zu Schweinsberg (von Schenk), Dr. Schone, Wilhelm Keding, Kurt Schmieder, Gerhard Knitter, J.H. Stein Bankhaus, Kurt von Schroeder, Friedrich Flick, Herman Roechling, Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Hjalmer Schacht, Walther Funk, Albert Speer, Fritz Sauckel, Paul Korner, Dr. Karl Blessing, Dr. Friedrich Ernst, Dr. Otto Schniewind, and Herman Schmitz.] |
| Financial Reports | |
| Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control History | |
| Foreign Exchange | |
| France | |
| Foreign Exchange Depository: Frankfurt | |
| Foreign Exchange Assets | |
| 283 | Funds |
| German Debt | |
| German External Assets | |
| German External Property Commission | |
| German Intelligence Reports on Selected Subjects [Included are relations between the Reichsbank and private banks, notes on the personalities and work of the higher officials in the Reichsfinanzminsterium, notes on further aspects of German banking, the Reichsbank and its relations with other institutions, social insurance in Germany, Reichsgruppe Banken, war damage compensation in Germany, conditions in Germany (includes financial assets in Argentina), and Reinhardt Letter No. 10 for revenue officers.] | |
| 284 | Germany |
| Germany: Basic Policies | |
| Germany: Foreign Exchange Law | |
| Goldcup | |
| History of Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch | |
| Hungary | |
| Hungary: National Bank | |
| Import–Export Problems | |
| 285 | Insurance |
| Internal Restitutions | |
| Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees | |
| Interpretations | |
| Interrogations [Two folders: One folder contains a 112 pp. transcript of record of financial interrogations of Herman Göring, Walther Funk, Schwerin von Krosigk, and Hans Lammers; the second contains numerous interrogations, including those of Emil Puhl during July and August 1945, and various interrogations of Hermann Göring during June and July 1945.] | |
| 286 | Investigations |
| Investments in Germany | |
| JCS 1067 | |
| 287–288 | Licenses and Licensing |
| 288 | Luxembourg |
| MGAF | |
| 289 | Military Government Directives |
| Military Government Law No. 8 | |
| Military Government Law 52 | |
| Military Government Law 53 | |
| Military Government Law 63 | |
| 290 | Military Government Ordinances and Functions |
| Military Government Regulations | |
| Ministerial Control | |
| Ministry of Economics: Department IV | |
| 291 | Miscellaneous Reports |
| 292 | Monthly Bulletin (Financial) |
| OSS Documents | |
| Paris Conference Act | |
| Patents | |
| Property Control, Blocking, and Freezing | |
| Reports: Military Government | |
| Securities | |
| 293 | Spain |
| 294 | 12th Army Group: Reports: Germany |
| U.S. Group Control Council | |
| Vesting Programs | |
| Welfare Agencies: Nazi Party |
Internal and External Finance Group
General Records, 1947–1949 (A1, Entry 580)
Boxes 295–300
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 295 | Banking (Blocked Accounts) |
| Claims | |
| Customs | |
| 296 | Reich Assets, Liabilities and Claims Disposition |
| 297–298 | Policy Files |
Correspondence and Related Records Regarding Accounts, Assets, and Payments, September 1946–September 1949 (A1, Entry 581)
Boxes 301–304
Correspondence and Other Records Regarding Property Claims, 1948–1950 (A1, Entry 582)
Boxes 305–313
Correspondence and Other Records Regarding Licensing of Foreign Exchange Transactions, 1946–1949 (A1, Entry 583)
Boxes 314–323
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 314 | Assets: Allied: In Germany |
| Bank Accounts | |
| Bank Deutscher Lander | |
| Bank Land Central | |
| Blocking From May 1 | |
| Business Interests in Germany, 1948 | |
| 315 | Claims For Release of Securities |
| 316 | Decartelization |
| Denmark | |
| Foreign Exchange Assets | |
| Foreign Exchange Depository | |
| Investigations | |
| 317–319 | Licenses |
| 321 | MGAX |
| Netherlands | |
| 322 | Property Inquiries |
| Removal of Property | |
| 323 | American Joint Distribution Committee |
| Confiscation | |
| Czechoslovakia | |
| Dutch Firms | |
| International Refugee Organization |
Miscellaneous Records Regarding Credit and Trade Agreements, 1947–1950 (A1, Entry 584)
Boxes 324–327
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 324 | Form MGAF-(3) Reports |
| Netherlands | |
| Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control | |
| 325 | Foreign Exchange Control |
| Germany Clearing System | |
| Foreign Trade Correspondence | |
| Minutes of Meetings | |
| Blocked Accounts | |
| Establishment of Banks | |
| 326 | Trade Agreements |
Records Pertaining to Payments and Military Government Accounts, 1946–1949 (A1, Entry 585)
Boxes 328–353
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 328 | Bank Accounts |
| 328–329 | Bank Deutscher Länder |
| 329 | Banking Facilities |
| Banks: Foreign (Licensed to Operate in Germany) | |
| Banks: German | |
| Basic Policy | |
| Basic Policy: Finance Division | |
| 330 | Blocking |
| 331 | Cables |
| Claims | |
| 332 | Control Council Laws and Directives |
| 333 | Customs |
| 334 | Decartelization |
| Denazification | |
| De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam | |
| Displaced Persons | |
| Economic Intelligence | |
| 335–336 | Export–Import |
| 337 | External Assets |
| Finance Directorate | |
| 338 | Foreign Exchange Control |
| Foreign Firms Operating in Germany | |
| Foreign Property Claims | |
| 339 | Gold |
| 340 | International Military Tribunal |
| International Refugee Organization | |
| 340–341 | Joint Export–Import Agency |
| 342 | Library of Congress |
| Metals | |
| Military Government Laws | |
| 343 | Military Government Regulations |
| Paris Conference | |
| Patents | |
| 343–344 | Payment Agreements [Alphabetical by country] |
| 344 | Precious Metals |
| Property Control | |
| 345 | Reparations |
| Reports | |
| Research | |
| Restitution | |
| 346 | Silver |
| Unblocking | |
| Export of Property and Goods From Germany | |
| 346–347 | Staff Studies |
| 347 | Foreign Exchange Assets of United Nations Displaced Persons and Assimilees |
| 347–348 | Licenses and Licensing |
| 349 | Revision of Military Government Law 52 |
| Sale of Insurance Policies | |
| Unblocking of Accounts | |
| Swedish Accord | |
| Swiss Accord | |
| 351 | Trademarks |
| 351–352 | Trade Agreements and Negotiations |
| 353 | USCC |
| UNRRA |
Applications and Related Records for Special Licenses to Engage in Transactions Related to Blocked Property, 1945 (A1, Entry 586)
Boxes 354–387
Records Relating to Displaced Persons, 1946–1949 (A1, Entry 587)
Boxes 388–391
| Box # | Selected File Title or Subject |
|---|---|
| 388 | Displaced Persons, 1948 |
| Joint Foreign Exchange Agency | |
| Joint Export–Import Agency | |
| Austria | |
| Absentee Ownership | |
| Germans From Czechoslovakia | |
| 389 | Banking and Financial Institutions |
| Bank: Federal Reserve Bank of New York | |
| Funds | |
| Germans From Austria | |
| Germans From Hungary | |
| 390 | Germans From Poland |
| Germans From Rumania | |
| Germans From Russia | |
| Germans From Yugoslavia |
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