U.S. and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II

 

Persons

Aarons, Lehman, Assistant General Counsel, Treasury Department.

Acheson, Dean, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, 1941-1945, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations and International Conferences, 1944-1945, Under Secretary of State, August 1945-June 1947, Secretary of State, June 1949-January 1953.

Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1963.

Angell, James W., economics professor, 1919-1941, Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration, 1943-1945, U.S. Representative to the Allied Commission on Reparations, 1945-1946.

Attlee, Clement, British Prime Minister, 1945-1951.

Bernstein, Colonel Bernard, attorney, Treasury Department, 1933-1942, Director, Finance Division, and Director, Division of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets, U.S. Group Control Commission for Germany, U.S. Army, 1944-1945, Financial Adviser to General Eisenhower for Civil Affairs and Military Government and first head of the Foreign Exchange Depository, 1942-1945, legal adviser for the American Jewish Congress, 1946-1948.

Bevin, Ernest, British Minister of Labour and National Service, 1940-1945, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1945-1951.

Bruggmann, Charles, Swiss Minister to the United States.

Byrnes, James, Secretary of State, July 1945-February 1947.

Casey, William J., head of Secret Intelligence Branch, European Theater of Operations (ETO, Office of Strategic Services

Churchill, Winston S., British Prime Minister, 1940-1945, 1951-1955.

Clayton, William L., businessman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 1942-1944, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, December 1944-August 1946, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August 1946- October 1947.

Cochran, Merle, State Department officer, Technical Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1939-1941, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 1953-1973.

Coe, V. Frank, Assistant Administrator for Economic Programs, Foreign Economic Administration, 1944, Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department, 1945-1946.

Cox, Oscar, Assistant to the General Counsel, Treasury Department, 1940, General Counsel, Lend Lease, 1942-1943, General Counsel, Foreign Economic Administration, 1944, Deputy Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration, 1945.

Currie, Lauchlin, professor, analyst for Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt, 1939-1945, Deputy Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration, 1943-1945.

Donovan, William, Head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1942-1945.

DuBois, Josiah E., Jr., attorney, Treasury Department, Chief Counsel, Foreign Funds Control, 1942-1944, Assistant General Counsel, Treasury Department, 1944, General Counsel, War Refugee Board, 1944-1945, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1945-1946.

Dulles, Allen W., Chief of the OSS Station in Bern, 1943-1945.

Fowler, Henry, attorney, Director, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration, 1945, Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-1969.

Frank, Walter, German Minister of Economic Affairs.

Funk, Walter, President of the Reichsbank.

Ginzberg, Eli, professor at Columbia University, U.S. Representative to the Five-Power Conference on Reparation for Non-Repatriable Victims of Germany, Paris, June 1946.

Gross, Ernest, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, 1947, Legal Adviser, July 1947-March 1949, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March-October 1949.

Harrison, Leland, U.S. Minister to Switzerland, September 1937- October 1947.

Hilldring, John, Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, 1946-1947.

Howard, Frank L., Deputy Director, Bureau of the Mint, senior Treasury representative involved in the inventory of the Kaiseroda cache.

Hull, Cordell, Secretary of State, March 1933-November 1944.

Jacobssen, Per, Economic Adviser to the Bank for International Settlements.

Javits, Jacob K., U.S. Congressman, 1946-1954, U.S. Senator, 1957-1980.

Kilgore, Harley, U.S. Senator, 1940-1956, Chairman, War Mobilization Subcommittee, Senate Military Affairs Committee.

Klaus, Samuel, Special Assistant to the General Counsel, Treasury Department, 1940-1944, Project Safehaven, Foreign Economic Administration, 1944-1945, Special Counsel, Department of State, 1946-1963, Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State, 1963.

MacVeagh, Lincoln, publisher, Ambassador to Portugal, 1948.

Magruder, John, Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Services, 1943-1945.

Marshall, George C., Secretary of State, 1947-1949.

Matthews, H. Freeman, Director, Office of European Affairs, Department of State.

McKittrick, Thomas H., President, Bank for International Settlements, 1940-1946, Vice President, Chase National Bank, 1946-1949.

McNeil, Hector, British Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1945-1946.

Morgenthau, Henry M., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-1945.

Mowinckel, John, Chief, Economic Intelligence Collection Unit, Office of Strategic Services, 1945.

Oliver, Covey, Adviser on Enemy Problems, Department of State, 1945, Associate Division Chief, Office of Economic Security Policy, 1946-1947, Division Chief, Office of Financial and Development Policy, 1945-1949.

Ostrow, Walter, U.S. Treasury Department Attaché, Legation in Bern.

Patterson, Robert, Under Secretary for War, 1940-1945.

Paul, Randolph, lawyer, General Counsel, Treasury Department, Acting Secretary in charge of Foreign Funds Control, Special Assistant to President Truman, head of delegation to the Allied-Swiss negotiations, Washington, March-May 1946.

Pehle, John, Director, Foreign Funds Control, Treasury Department, 1940-1944, Director, War Refugee Board, 1944-1945, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1940-1946.

Petitpierre, Max, Member of Swiss Council and Chief of the Federal Political Department (Foreign Minister), 1945-1950, President of the Swiss Confederation, from 1950.

Puhl, Emil, Vice President of the Reichsbank, German member of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements.

Ribbentrop, Joachim, German Foreign Minister.

Roosevelt, Franklin D., President of the United States, 1933-1945

Rubin, Seymour J., Chief, Division of Financial and Monetary Affairs, Department of State, 1944-1945, Chief, Economic Security Controls, 1945; Acting Chief, Division of Economic and Security Controls, Office of Financial and Development Policy, 1945-1946; Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs, 1946, negotiator with Sweden, Spain, and Portugal.

Salazar, Antonio Oliviera, Portuguese Head of Government, 1932-1968.

Schmidt, Orvis, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, Treasury Department, 1947, Assistant Director, Office of International Finance, 1947, Treasury representative on the Currie Mission.

Schwartz, Margaret W., Assistant to the Chief, Licensing Division, Foreign Funds Control, Treasury Department.

Schwartz, Robert J., Office of International Finance, Treasury Department, 1947.

Snyder, John, Secretary of the Treasury, 1946-1953.

Southard, Frank A., Director, Office of International Finance, Treasury Department, 1947-1948.

Stettinius, Edward, Jr., Director, Lend Lease, 1941-1943, Under Secretary of State, October 1943-November 1944, Secretary of State, December 1944-June 1945.

Stucki, Walter, Swiss Ambassador to Vichy France, 1940-1944, Director of the Political Department, Swiss Foreign Ministry, 1945-1946, Delegate for Special Missions for the Swiss Federal Political Department (Foreign Ministry), 1945-1952.

Surrey, Walter, attorney, Division Chief, Office of Economic Policy, Department of State, 1946-1947.

Thoms, Albert, Chief, Department of Precious Metals, Reichsbank.

Thorp, Willard, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, 1946-1952.

Truman, Harry S., President of the United States, 1945-1953.

Ullman, William L., Office of Monetary Research, Treasury Department, 1945-1947.

Vinson, Fred, Secretary of the Treasury, 1945-1946.

Von Papen, Franz, German Ambassador to Turkey, 1939-1944.

Warburg, Edward M.M., U.S. Army, 1942-1945, Displaced Persons Division, 1st Army and SHAEF Headquarters; co-chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1966.

White, Harry Dexter, Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department, 1938-1945, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1945-1946, co-creator with John Maynard Keynes of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Wiley, John C., Ambassador to Portugal, 1947-1948.

Willis, George, Director, Office of International Finance, Treasury Department, 1947-1962.

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