Showing posts with label ALIU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALIU. Show all posts

Apr 1, 2022

ALIU Red Flag List of Names in Italian (with DeepL)

This post publishes in Italian the Art Looting Investigation Red Flag List of Names which was originally written in English in 1945-6.

(Translated from English into Italian by Deepl)

OSS ALIU Art saccheggio lista di nomi con bandiera rossa tradotta in italiano

(update in progress)

Titolo

OSS (USS Office of Strategic Services) Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 e ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index  

https://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661

Descrizione

Nel 1944 il governo degli Stati Uniti creò un'unità speciale di intelligence che si occupava di arte saccheggiata, formata e amministrata dall'OSS.  Nel corso del 1945 e 1946, questa unità, chiamata Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU), produsse 16 rapporti stampati. 


Un indice dei nomi che elenca tutti gli individui, i commercianti e le agenzie che appaiono in uno di questi rapporti è disponibile qui. L'indice dei nomi può anche essere cercato su questo sito cliccando sul pulsante "Cerca" e digitando un nome nella casella di ricerca delle informazioni.   


I NOMI DELLE BANDIERE ROSSE E I DETTAGLI DELLE LORO ATTIVITÀ IN TEMPO DI GUERRA SONO ANCHE RIPORTATI IN FONDO A QUESTO DOCUMENTO, ORGANIZZATI IN ORDINE ALFABETICO PER PAESE DI ATTIVITÀ.   


I rapporti ALIU sono di tre tipi:

May 17, 2021

Buried for more than half a century

Altaussee Salt/Art Mine discovery after WW II
Lieutenants Kern & Sieber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

What must it have been like for Samson Lane Faison, Jr., James S. Plaut, Theodore Rousseau, Jr. and Jean Vlug to watch their reports on Nazi art looting and art dealer networks be buried and lost?


The ALIU reports contained names, dates, places, specific events, artworks - crucial information for tracking down looted art. 

All classified. Hidden away. Inaccessible. Unknown. Unexplored.

What lesson could these museum men possibly have learned from Washington's treatment of their historic work?

When, in 2001, the reports were to be published on microfiche, Dr. Greg Bradsher contacted S. Lane Faison, to tell him the news that their work would finally be public and to ask permission to give Faison's phone number to journalists who might want to know more. Bradsher described the conversation in a blog post for the National Archives:

On April 23, 2001, I phoned Professor Faison and told him the National Archives was issuing the next day a press release announcing the release of Microfilm Publication M-1782, “OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports, 1945-46.”  I told him the microfilmed records—including the detailed, consolidated, and final reports—were being made available on May 8, the 56th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s discovery of the salt mine at Alt Aussee, Austria, where the greatest concentration of Nazi plunder from Western Europe was concealed.  I asked him if he minded me making his phone number available if I received press inquiries about the records and the work of the ALIU.  He said at his age it was tough enough to get up to change the television channel, much less answer the phone regarding things he had done ages ago and which were well-documented in the records we were making available. So, yes, he did mind.

-  "An Office of Strategic Services Monuments Man: S. Lane Faison"

 This is the seventh in an ongoing series of posts on real-life Monuments Men. Today’s post is by Dr. Greg Bradsher. See related posts on Sir Charles Leonard WoolleyWalter J. HuchthausenSeymour J. PomrenzeMason HammondEdith Standen, and Karol Estreicher. 

Nov 8, 2017

Art Looting Investigation Unit: mentions of the Bauer Collection in the Final Report

What do the Art Looting Investigation Reports say about the looting of the Bauer Collection? How easy - or difficult - is it to access this information today, in 2017?

Can one search the archives via internet and retrieve the information?

Here is the result of a simple test: looking for information on the seizure of the Bauer collection in one of the ALIU Reports, the "Final Report". This report contains, notably, a list of names of suspected Nazi era operators.