SAFEHAVEN reports on Nazi looting of occupied countries and assets in neutral countries
Contributors: United States. War Department. War Crimes Branch; Safehaven (Program); United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Series: Archives unbound; Archives unbound
Publisher: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 8853
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Finance; Confiscations and contributions; Claims; National socialism; History; Confiscations; Safehaven (Program); United States. Foreign Economic Administration; United States
Description: It was within the context of evidence collection that the War Crimes Branch received copies of documents known as "SAFEHAVEN Reports." SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a project of the Foreign Economic Administration, in cooperation with the State Department and the military services, to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments. In order to coordinate research and intelligence-sharing regarding SAFEHAVEN-related topics, the War Crimes Branch received SAFEHAVEN reports from various agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as SAFEHAVEN-related military attach reports, regarding the clandestine transfer of German assets outside of Germany that could be used to rebuild the German war machine or the Nazi party after the war, as well as art looting and other acts that elicited the interest of Allied intelligence agencies during the war. Another aspect of the SAFEHAVEN project was the restoration of looted art treasures to their rightful owners.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1944-1945.

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