• The Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) was an American special intelligence unit during World War II whose mission was to gather information and write...
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  • activities but never became effective due to low staffing. The Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) worked under the direction of the London office and was...
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    Nazi plunder (redirect from Nazi looting)
    William J. Donovan created the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) within the OSS to collect information on the looting, confiscation, and transfer of...
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    Karl Haberstock (category German art dealers)
    Munich) was a Berlin art dealer who trafficked in Nazi-looted art. Haberstock's name appears 60 times in the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945–1946...
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    S. Lane Faison (category American art historians)
    Services' Art Looting Investigation Unit. He wrote the official top-secret report (see selected publications) on Adolf Hitler's collection of stolen art. Five...
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    Two Riders on the Beach (category Nazi-looted art)
    Gurlitt was investigated for his role in Nazi art looting by the Art Looting Investigation Unit. "Amazingly," Susan Ronald wrote in Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand...
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    Erhard Göpel (category German art critics)
    collectors. In 1945-6, the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit published a series of reports about the Nazi looted art trade. Erhard Göpel in mentioned...
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    the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector and his art collection...
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    States Army) X-2 Counter Espionage Branch History of espionage Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) Millard Preston Goodfellow William J. Donovan The Pond...
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  • Hermann Göring Collection (category Nazi-looted art)
    collection and investigated their looting. The series of reports written in 1945-6 by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit to document Nazi art looting networks...
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  • Walter Hofer (category German art dealers)
    the OSS Art Looting Investigation Units Reports of 1945-1946. He was not a member of the Nazi Party. After the war he continued to work as an art dealer...
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    also played a key role in the creation of the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) which investigated and documented Nazi plunder networks in Europe...
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    figure of 7,000 accords well with the data released by the Art Looting Investigation Unit. Other experts quote higher figures of up to 8,500 for the ultimate...
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    Hermann Göring (category 20th-century art collectors)
    plunder of Jewish property. His name appears 135 times on the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) Red Flag Names List compiled by US Army intelligence...
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  • Gustav Rochlitz (category Nazi-looted art)
    LootedArt.com. OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES ART LOOTING INVESTIGATION UNIT APO 413 U.S. ARMY. Retrieved 25 May 2017. Media related to Art Looting Investigation...
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    passed through Drouot, which was as a result included on the Art Looting Investigation Unit list of Red Flag names. From 1976 to 1980, while its present...
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    United States.: 48:10  Georges Delfanne Rudy de Mérode Milice Art Looting Investigation Unit Business collaboration with Nazi Germany Archives de Paris online...
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    about art and architecture. In 1946, Troost was included on the Art Looting Investigation Unit's Red Flag Names List connected to Nazi art looting networks...
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    Walter Bornheim (category Nazi-looted art)
    during the occupation. The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit considered Bornheim a major player in the Nazi looted art business, and dedicated a Detailed...
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  • looting. In June 2023 Russian media reported complaints of residents of Belgorod oblast in Russia sent to its governor about Russian troops looting their...
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    César Mange de Hauke (category Nazi-looted art)
    the dealers reported by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit in 1946 for suspected involvement in Nazi-looted art. De Hauke's name appears in several...
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  • Eduard Plietzsch (category German art historians)
    Collection", he was taken into custody by the British and investigated by the Art Looting Investigation Unit in 1945–46, which also noted that Plietzsch advised...
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  • and closely associated with the Vichy government. The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit included Kreuter in its list of Red Flag Names in 1945. After...
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    Hans Wendland (category German art dealers)
    arms manufacturer" When, after a half century of secrecy, the Art Looting Investigation Unit reports began to reemerge in the late 1990s, The Associated...
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    Emil Georg Bührle (category Swiss art collectors)
    Services Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports 1945-46, state that during the Nazi era, Bührle was an "important recipient of looted works of art by purchase...
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    Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU), who were aware of his role as head of the special staff in Linz and his involvement in the acquisition of art looted...
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    remains unsolved. Large-scale art thefts include the Nazi looting of Europe during World War II and the Russian looting of Ukraine during the 2022 Russian...
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  • Friedrich Welz (category Austrian art dealers)
    February 1980 in Salzburg) was an Austrian art dealer and Nazi Party member investigated for art looting. Friedrich Welz took over his father's picture...
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    son Lane had a distinguished career as an art historian, member of the OSS's Art Looting Investigation Unit in World War II, and long-time faculty member...
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  • Eduard Sturzenegger (category Swiss art collectors)
    Switzerland. Nathan was placed on the Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag list of names by Allied investigators in 1946 for his Nazi-era dealings. In...
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