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Art Looting Investigation Unit, Strategic Services, US War Department

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S. L. jr. Faison

Art historian, Monuments Man, museum director, teacher

• Born: 1907-11-16 (Washington, D.C.)
• Died: 2006-11-11 (Williamstown)
• Country of citizenship: United States of America
• Occupation: art historian; historian
• Member of: Art Looting Investigation Unit; Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
• Military rank: lieutenant commander
• Military branch: United States Navy
• Position held: director (of: Munich Central Collecting Point, Williams College Museum of Art; period: 1948-01-01 through 1951-01-01, 1950-01-01 through 1976-01-01); museum director

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

• Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
• Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
• Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
• Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel
• Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
• Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier

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Hans Posse

German art historian, Hitler's special representative for planned "Führermuseum" in Linz, Austria

• Born: 1879-02-06 (Dresden)
• Died: 1942-12-07 (Berlin)
• Country of citizenship: German Reich
• Occupation: art dealer; art historian
• Participant in: Nazi plunder (period: 1939-01-01 through 1942-01-01)
• Employer: Bode Museum; Führermuseum; Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (period: 1913-01-01 through 1942-01-01)
• Educated at: University of Marburg; University of Vienna
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/49972415

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

• Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
• Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Military rank: general field marshal
• Military branch: artillery
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

• Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
• Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
• Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
• Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
• Member of: Sturmabteilung
• Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
• Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

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Hans H. Lammers

German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)

• Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
• Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
• Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel
• Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
• Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)

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Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)

• Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
• Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
• Member of: The Ahnenerbe
• Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
• Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)

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Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)

• Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
• Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
• Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
• Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
• Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
• Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
• Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
• Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)

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Hermann Voss

German art historian, Director of Adolf Hitler's Linz Museum Project ("Special Commission: Linz")

• Born: 1884-07-30 (Lüneburg)
• Died: 1969-04-28 (Munich)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: art historian
• Member of: National Socialist People's Welfare
• Participant in: Nazi plunder
• Position held: museum director (of: Museum Wiesbaden; period: 1935-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
• Employer: Adolf Hitler; Bode Museum (period: 1922-01-01 through 1935-01-01; role: curator, deputy director); Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (period: 1911-01-01 through 1912-01-01; role: scientific assistant); Museum Wiesbaden (period: 1935-01-01 through 1945-01-01; role: museum director)

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Leopold Ruprecht

Austrian art historian, amor expert Linz and Kunsthistorisches Institut, Vienna

• Occupation: art historian; writer
• Participant in: Nazi plunder
• Employer: Führermuseum; Kunsthistorisches Museum
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/3479071
• ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000023996278
• WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-3479071

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

• Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
• Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
• Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
• Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
• Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
• Member of: Nazi Party
• Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
• Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin

Leo Schindler

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Ferdinand Niedermeyer

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