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Chancery, United Kingdom High Commission - Progress of Restitution and Establishment...
Catalogue reference: FO 1008/81
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This record is about the Chancery, United Kingdom High Commission - Progress of Restitution and Establishment... dating from 1951 January 01 - 1951 August 31 in the series Foreign Office: Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner for Germany: Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1008/81
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951 January 01 - 1951 August 31
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Description (What the record is about)
- Chancery, United Kingdom High Commission - Progress of Restitution and Establishment of Chambers. <p>Correspondence between the Political Director and Head of Chancery at the Office of the United Kingdom High Commission and several divisional chiefs and senior officials attached to the Foreign Office, dated January-August 1951. Concerns the progress of the work of restitution courts in Germany as the operation of these courts began to draw to a close. No reference to specific cultural property.</p>
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This document forms part of the Looted Art Collection; records selection and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- File No. 65/11 Part I
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Europe and Russia
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1264481/
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FO 1008
Foreign Office: Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner for Germany: Files
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