Catalogue description The Consolidated Interrogation Report includes 88 attachments [usually in German with...

The Consolidated Interrogation Report includes 88 attachments [usually in German with English translation]. Attachments A and B are two copies of the drawings for the city of Linz with a map of the city and an enlarged sketchof Linz's main square with the museum and library. Attachment 1 includes a letter by Bormann enclosing a copy of Hitler's order stating 'I commission Dr Hans Posse, Director of Dresden Gallery, to build up the new art museum for Linz Donau. All Party and State services are ordered to assist Dr Posse in fulfilment of his mission', dated June 1939. Attachment 2 is a letter from Bormann to Posse referring to the Fuehrer's wish to include painters of the Munich School in the Linz Museum and the eventuality of ercting a second building for sculptures, urging Posse 'to keep an eye out for antique sculptures in Holland and Belgium', dated August 1940. Attachment 3 is a letter from Bormann to Gauleiter and Reichskommisar Buerckel stating that 'even the paintings and other works of art which are merely safeguarded are likewise available for his disposition', dated July 1939. Attachment 4 is a letter from Bormann to Posse commenting on Posse's suggestions of works from Viennese collections for Linz [listed in Attachment 72], dated May 1940. Attachment 5 is a letter from Posse to Bormann enclosing a report on his trip to Cracow and Warsaw 'to obtain information on kind and quantity of confiscated art objects', dated December 1939. Attachment 6 is a letter from Keitel to the Chief of the Army High Command for the Military Administration in occupied France stating that, 'supplementary to the order of the Fuehrer to Reichsleiter Rosenberg to search lodges, libraries and archives of the occupied territories for material valuable in Germany, and to safeguard the latter through the Gestapo, the Fuehrer has decided that: The status of ownership before the war in France, prior to the declaration of war on 1 September 1939, shall be the criterion', dated September 1940. Attachment 7 consists of Goering's order on the measures taken 'for the safeguarding of Jewish art property' and its transfer to the Louvre, dated November 1940. Attachment 8 includes Lammer's guidelines for the policy to be implemented for the seizure of works of art, dated November 1940. Attachment 9 includes Bormann's letter to Posse on the ERR, dated April 1941. Attachment 10 is a letter from Posse to Hanssen reporting on Posse's activities in Holland, dated August 1940. Attachments 10a and 11 provide a letter from a Dutch collaborator and a message from Muehlmann on the situation of the Dutch art market, dated August and June 1940. Attachments 12 and 13 relate to the opening of purchasing accounts for acquisitions in Italy for Posse and Philipp von Hessen, dated March and June 1941. Attachment 14 is a letter from Lammers to Bormann enclosing a statement of purchases made for Linz for a total of 8,522,348.69 RM, dated March 1941. Attachments 15 and 15a include Lammers's directive on Voss's appointment, dated March 1945. Attachments 16 and 17 contain two letters from Bormann to Rosenberg and from Himmler to the SS commanders requesting the assistance of Hitler's experts for the Linz collection, dated April 1943 and January 1945. Attachment 18 includes Himmler's directive on German cultural property in Italy, dated February 1940. Attachment 19 is a letter from Voss to Bormann accompanying Voss's present on Hitler's birthday and including a summary of the Fuehrersmuseum acquisitions made during the course of 1943/1944, dated April 1944. Attachment 20 is a letter from Ruprecht to Bormann on the seizures of works of art carried out in Prague, with no date. Attachment 21 contains Hitler's decree for the establishment of a coin cabinet in Linz, dated October 1942. Attachment 22 provides the interrogation report of Karl Kluge, chauffeur to Dr Ruprecht, head of the Linz armour collection, dated September 1945. Attachment 23 consists of a memorandum by Schindler on the transfer of gold coins to Alt Aussee, dated April 1945 [sic, most probably 1944]. Attachments 24-36 include statements and correspondence between Bormann, Posse, Lohse, Voss, Haberstock, Destrem, Beyer and others relating to the Schloss and Mannheimer affairs, the acquisition of the Czernin Vermeer, the holdings of the Kameradschaft der Kuenstler and of the Nicolas Rembrandts, with details of prices and methods of acquisition, dated September 1940-May 1944. Attachments 37 and 38 are two letters from Posse to Bormann relating to the purchases made in Holland for the Fuehrermuseum, dated January-February 1941. Attachment 39 consists of the travel orders for Posse issued by Hanssen, dated June 1940. Attachment 40 is a letter from Posse to Hanssen setting out the arrangements for Posse's trip to Italy, dated May 1940. Attachment 41 contains a letter from Reimer to Gurlitt enclosing an example of a Linz travel certificate, dated October 1943. Attachment 42 includes correspondence on the opening of purchasing accounts for Posse in The Hague and Paris, dated February-March 1941. Attachment 43 contains a letter by Haberstock to the Director of the Service for Purchase and Sale Abroad of the Division of Foreign Trade complaining on the financial procedures necessary for the acquisition of paintings and art treasures in Paris, dated October 1941.