Post-War Reports:

Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index

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• No. 1  Heinrich Hoffman, July 1945 (6 pp)
• No. 2  Ernst Buchner, July 1945 (34 pp)
• No. 3 Robert Scholz, August 1945 (5 pp)
• No. 4  Gustav Rochlitz, August 1945 (13 pp)
• No. 5  Gunther Schiedlausky, August 1945 (4 pp)
• No. 6  Bruno Lohse, August 1945 (15 pp)
• No. 7  Gisela Limberger, September 1945 (5 pp)
• No. 9  Walter Andreas Hofer, September 1945 (20 pp)
• No. 10  Karl Kress, August 1945 (3 pp)
• No. 11  Walter Bornheim, September 1945 (ca. 30 pp)
• No. 12  Herman Voss, September 1945 (28 pp)
• No. 13  Karl Haberstock, May 1946 (5 pp)  

• No. 1  Activity of The Einsatzstab Rosenberg in France, August 1945 (57 pp and ca. 50 pp of appendices)

• No. 2 The Goering Collection, September 1945 (176 pp and ca. 150 pp of appendices)

• No. 4 Linz: Hitler's Museum and Library, December 1945 (87 pp and ca. 200 pp of appendices)

• DIRs are available onNARA Microfilm Publications M1782, Roll 1, and M1944, Roll 94.
  
• CIRs are available onNARA Microfilm Publications M1782, Roll 1, and M1944, Rolls 94–95.  M1944 also includes records   relating to the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (The Roberts Commission) 1943-1946. To read the associated background pamphlet, please clickhere. 
  
• The Final Report is available onNARA Microfilm Publications M1782, Roll 1, and M1944, Roll 22.

Abels Brothers,Hermann.Cologne,Komoedienstrasse 26.Dealers.Specialists in 16th to 19th century painting and graphic arts. Active inParis. In touch with Wuester, who was advised on purchases for Ribbentrop.

Abetz Otto.German Ambassador toFrance.Connected with the early seizures of Jewish art collections, particularly through the Kunsberg organisation.

Adriani Gert.Director ofKunsthistorischesMuseum,Vienna.Contact of Miedl inHolland.

von Ahrendt, Bono.Director of Reichskammer fur Bildende Kunst.Active inParis in 1942. In touch with Dr Epting.

Angerer,Josef (Sepp).Berchtesgaden. After Hofer, Goering’s most important buyer. Ardent Nazi, known to have had Gestapo connections. Member of firm of Quantmeyer & Eicke. Active throughout Europe, notablyFrance andItaly. Contact of Reber,Ventura, Contini-Bonacossi, Ginori and Arturo Grassi. Was under temporary house arrest atBerchtesgaden, house of Fritz Goernnert, autumn 1945.

Apfelstaedt,Dr Hans Joachim.Dusseldorf.Karltor 1 -Cologne.Official purchasing agent forDusseldorf and for Dusseldorf-Koln-Aachen-Bonn Gauleitung, for which he was active inFrance. Head of committee for research on cultural objects ‘looted ‘ from theRhineland in previous wars. Assisted by Rademacher and Bammann.

Aubin,Dr HermannBreslau 13, Kaiser Wilhelmstr 118.Professor of History atBreslau.Lectured inPoland 1940. One of the creators of Polish Volksdeutsch movement. Reported to have information concerning looted works of art inCracow.

Augsburg, Dr.Berlin.Reported active in looting inPoland.

AWAG.Berlin,Leipzigerstr 126-137.Aryanised title of successor to Wertheim (shipping firm). Reported to have conducted purchases inFrance through Jansen.

Bachstitz, Kurt Walter. Basle The Hague, Surinamestr 11 (former). Jewish dealer, active formerly in Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam. Brother-in-law of Hofer, and his former employer. Although on bad terms, Hofer obtained an exit visa from Holland to Switzerland for him, but arranged to have his sister divorce Bachstitz, whereby aryanisation of the Bachstitz firm and/or confiscation of its assets was avoided. Hofer’s sister subsequently took over the firm, and it is possible that Hofer became part owner. Believed not to have engaged in important art looting activity. Conducted extensive business prior to the war with American dealers and collectors.

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