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Historical Survey of the Activities of the Intelligence Department
Edward Breitenbach
Chief, Monuments and Fine Arts Section
Formerly MFA&A Officer
for Southern Bavaria
Bad Nauheim, 30 June, 1949.

"... By the end of the second day, when the looting was finally stopped, all the pictures were gone.
The loss was quite considerable. It included 259 items of the Schloss collection, perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch 17th century paintings, which the Nazis had looted from France, and about the same number of pictures which had been recently acquired for the Linz Museum, and which for lack of transportation had not been shipped for storage to the Alt Aussee mine."