(NA, RG., box ), and Aug. , (box ); and in particular
the OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report, No. , “The Göring Collec-
tion,” Sept. , (Hoover Library, HG Collection, box ).
Looted: Under § of the German Penal Code, HG’s acquisition of the works
of art from the ERR was certainly “receiving stolen property.” See the
memo by D. Loofer of MFA&A, Control Commission for Germany, Dec.
, (NA, RG., box ). The quotations are from HG’s interrog. on
Dec. , ; cf. that of June , (USAISC and NA, RG., box ).
Miedl, Alois: Born in Bavaria on Mar. , , and introduced to HG by the
latter’s brother-in-law, Fritz Rigele. For Miedl’s business interests in Ber-
lin, see OSS report XL. (NA, RG.). The Katz Case: FBI and other
reports, – in NA, RG., box .
Goudstikker: In general, NA, RG., boxes , , , and , and RG., box
. Miedl himself escaped to Spain with twenty-two valuable paintings,
some of them from the Goudstikker Collection. On Apr. , , he wrote
from Madrid to Goudstikker’s widow that he had fled Amsterdam with
his Jewish wife and two children on June , , “as I didn’t want them
to be exposed to the risk of being deported by the Germans after all” (NA,
RG., box ).
Cheating: Maj. Gen. Edgar Petersen, former CO of Luftgau , overheard i n
SRGG.. Seyss-Inquart, interrog. of Aug. , (NA, RG., box ).
Hofer, Walter Andreas: Born in Berlin on Feb. , ; for his interrog., see
NA, RG., box . Ribbentrop: interrog., Aug. , .
Einsatzstab Rosenberg: Report INTR//MA, “The Einsatzstab Rosenberg,”
an analysis of the captured letter register of the ERR, Oct. , ,
through Mar. , (IWM, FO., box ); Orion report CIR no. ,
“Activity of the ERR in France,” Aug. , (NA, RG., box ); Rosen-
berg interrogs., CCPWE, DJ-, June (ibid., box ) and Aug. ,
(RG., box ); and HG interrogs. SAIC/, May , and SAIC/X/, May
and June , .
Inspector Dufour: Dr. H. Bunjes, Situation Report, Nov. through Dec. ,
(NA, RG., box ).
Jeu de Paume: Bunjes (see above); CIR no. (see note “Jeu de Paume,” Chapter
). HG’s order of Nov. , , is in Bunjes Papers (NA, RG., box ;
and see box , “HG, France”). HG swooped on the ERR’s art depot at the
Jeu de Paume twenty times: on Nov. and , ; Feb. ; Mar. , , and ;
Apr. ; May and ; July ; Aug. , and ; Dec. , , and , ; and on Feb.
, Mar. , May , and Nov. and , , on which latter occasion he
acquired a Van Gogh landscape worth one million francs, from the
Weinberger Collection, for only , francs, thanks to Lohse’s hag-
gling (NA, RG., Records of Judge Advocate General, box : OSS X-
“Interim Report on the Art Activities of HG,” June , ). For the HG
order of Nov. , , see PID report , Oct. , : “The History of the
Battle for the Preservation of German Works of Art” (Hoover Library,
Daniel Lerner Papers, box ).
Lohse, Dr. Bruno: Born in Westphalia, Sept. , ; joined the Nazi party i n
; commissioned into the Luftwaffe, appointed to the ERR in Feb. .
On Apr. , , HG issued him with these credentials: “Dr. Bruno Lohse
has been instructed by me to acquire objets d’art from art dealers and pri-