The Reichs Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Berlin W 35, Rauch Street 17/18, 20 Aug 1941
' Tel: 21 95 15 and 39 50 46
Cable address: Reichminister East
Na 369/R/H
Director of the Reichs Main Office UTIKAL [Reichshauptstellenleiter]
Berlin
Subject: Safeguarding the cultural goods in the occupied Eastern Territories
I have instructed the Reichs Commissioner for the Eastland and his subordinate general and district commissioners to secure all cultural goods in the Reichs Commissariat of the East which are appropriate in general for national-socialistic research as
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well as research of the activities of the opponents of National-Socialism. I delegate you to carry out with an "Einsatzstab" to be formed for this purpose this work of the Reichs Commissioner, the General, Main and Regional Commissioners, for their support. During the execution of this mission you will remain directly subordinate to Main Division II of my ministry whose directors will provide you with additional instructions. The orders issued by the Fuehrer for the "Einsatzstab" in the West remain also the same for the East. ,
The execution of your job will be financed, as in the occupied western territories, through the Reichs treasurer of the NSDAP. A later accounting between him and the ministry for the occupied eastern territories, respectively with the Reichs Commissariats is held in reserve.
I am including a letter of mine to the Reich Commissioner of the Eastland.
Heil Hitler !
Signed: ROSENBERG
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Instructions to Gerhard Utikal for the securing of "cultural goods" in the eastern territories that are useful for Nazi research
Authors
Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 20 August 1941
Literal Title: Subject: Safeguarding the cultural goods in the occupied Eastern Territories
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-145
HLSL Item No.: 451243
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence.
Document Summary
PS-145: Order ROSENBERG'S appointing UTIKAL as organizer for the Einsatzstab in the Baltic States