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" For all expenses necessary for completing the work of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas... "
Legislative Calendar - Page 108
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1946
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The Record: News from the National Archives and Records Administration

United States. National Archives and Records Administration - Archival resources - 1994 - 416 pages
...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...
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The Record: News from the National Archives and Records Administration

United States. National Archives and Records Administration - Archival resources - 1997 - 262 pages
...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,...
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The Return of Cultural Treasures

Jeanette Greenfield - Law - 1996 - 380 pages
...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,...
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Swiss Banks and Attempts to Recover Assets Belonging to the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Business & Economics - 1997 - 644 pages
...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...
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Swiss Banks and Attempts to Recover Assets Belonging to the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Business & Economics - 1997 - 636 pages
...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,...
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The Safekeepers: A Memoir of the Arts at the End of World War II

Walter Ings Farmer - History - 2000 - 262 pages
...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...
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Restitution of Holocaust Assets: Hearings Before the Committee on ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...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...
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War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960

Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor Kerkham - History - 2001 - 462 pages
...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...
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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the ...

Opritsa D. Popa - History - 2003 - 284 pages
...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...
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To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

Herman Knell - History - 2009 - 398 pages
...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...
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