FUHRER MUSEUM
AMBITIOUS LOOTING ENTERPRISE (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 23. Sixty-four volumes comprising complete administrative files of Hitler’s special commission established foporganising the projected Fuhrer museum in Linz have been lent to the 1 monuments and fine arts section of the American military Government for the pux-pose of identifying thousands of priceless art works at present in the Munich collecting centre. Colonel John Allen, head of the restitution branch, thinks the documents, which were originally discovered by the Russians, will yield valu-i able information. Files being microfilmed in Berlin reveal many shady acquisitions by Hitler’s agents through-' out Europe which were previously baffling art intelligence officers. . The so-called Fuhrer museum project. afforded the Nazis a motive for one of the most ambitious looting enterprises- in history.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 268, 24 August 1946, Page 5
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