...Agreements Negotiations, nd Materials open. Contact the Textual Reference Branch at (301) 713-7250. Records of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (RG 239, 1 cubic foot). Recently declassified were microfilm copies of reports from the Mediterranean...

...was a big issue, given the fact that upwards of 20 % of the art of Europe was looted by the Nazis. The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (The Roberts Commission), the US Army's intelligence units and Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives officers,...

...discovered by the 9oth Division US Third Army in the salt mine at Merkers, Germany, 15 April 1945. The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (The Roberts Commission) was set up to return plundered art. Vienna. They include paintings, books,...

...Reparations Agreement of 1946, October 1946-January 1949. LM 54, roll 28, frames 4 1 8-452. Records of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (RG 239) The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments...

...Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (RG 239) The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, also known as the Roberts Commission, was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 23,...

...Bauhaus, founded in Essen and later established at Weimar, simply went out of existence. The creation of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas must be seen against this back14 Poste, Leslie I. The Development of US Protection of Libraries and...

...research shows us that directly after the end of World War n, the US government, in the form of both the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (better known as the Roberts Commission) and the Department of State, warned American museums and art...

...1918-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988). Lynn H. Nicholas explains the work in Europe of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (the Roberts Commission) and of Arts and Monuments officers in The Rape of Europe: The Fate of Europe's...

...A search through the roster of 1946 MFA&A officers, enlisted men, and civilians published in Report of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946), 163-164, identified a Major Lewis S. Williams and a...

...cultural assets.11 Roosevelt reacted quickly and before long, in August 1943, he approved the founding of the American Commission for the Protection and...Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, ACPS for short. It consisted of church leaders such as Cardinal Spellman, representatives of the Metropolitan...