| Registry Number: M 13/K/4 Vol I. Foreign Office correspondence about German property and archives in Spain, dated 1945. Safehaven Report from the American Embassy in Madrid to the British Embassy in Madrid on 'Ownership of Buildings and Property Occupied by the German Government Agencies in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain', dated March 1945. Refers to German Embassy buildings in Madrid. Joint Memorandum from the British and American Embassies to the Director General of Political Economy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, referring to German railway wagons, dated June 1945. Letter from the American Embassy in Madrid to the British Embassy in Madrid about the German offer to transfer assets, including Spanish bills and Swiss franc notes, to the American Embassy, dated May 1945. Encloses an Aide Memoire about the Order of the Spanish government to seal official Axis property in Spain, dated 8 May 1945. Memorandum referring to German official property removed from the German Embassy. States that Major Lieutenant Ernst Arno Paul Kleyenstueber, also known as Arnold Klamke, removed a box of gold coins weighing approximately seven kilos. He had registered in Madrid a Mercedes 12 HP motor vehicle bearing matriculation number M 71168 under his name; Max Franzbach removed three boxes of gold coins, several thousand dollars of US bills and 2,990 kilos of opium; Ivo Obermuller removed one box of gold coins; Lieutenant Colonel Kurt von Rohrscheidt, Counsellor of the German Embassy, removed approximately 300,000 pesetas; Major Lieutenant Eberhard Kiechebusch removed approximately 250,000 pesetas. Further includes Notes Verbale, Aide Memoires and correspondence sent by the American Embassy in Madrid in relation to this property removed from the German Embassy, dated May - June 1945. Telegrams from the British Embassy in Madrid to the Foreign Office about the disposal of German official and semi-official premises in Spain, dated June 1945. Further correspondence between the American and British Embassies in Madrid and the Foreign Office about the disposal of such premises, including letters on the return of former German leased properties to their owners, and other letters on funds credited to the British and American Embassy joint Trustee Account in the Anglo-South American Bank, including shares of the Compania Immobiliaria del Centro, Sociedad Anonima and Sofindus, dated July 1945. Safehaven Reports by the American Embassy in Madrid relating to German tin holdings held in Bulgarian and Spanish names in Spain, dated September 1945. Correspondence between the British Embassy in Madrid and the Foreign Office relating to the future of German schools in Spain, dated September 1945. No specific reference to cultural property. |
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