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Records of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas [Roberts Commission] (RG 239)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established this commission in June 1943. Associate Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts chaired the commission and it is often called the "Roberts Commission."  Its officers cooperated with the War Department in protecting cultural treasures, gathered information about war damage to such treasures, compiled data on cultural property appropriated by the Axis Powers, and encouraged its restitution. The commission also prepared and distributed lists and handbooks to the military's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFA&A) officers in the field to assist them with preparation of official lists of sites and monuments to protect. The commission was abolished in June 1946. 

With two exceptions, all of the records are on microfilm: ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ Microfilm Publication ²Ñ–1944: Records of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas [The Roberts Commission], 1943-1946.

The records can also be found , through our partner Fold3. 

The two exceptions consist of records accessioned in microfilm format:

• ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ Microfilm Publication A3383: Card File of Japanese Works, Collections, Sites, and Installations Requiring Protection, 1946, and
• ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ Microfilm Publication A3380: Microfilm Copies of Reports from the Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operations Received from the Allied Military Government, 1943–1946.

See the  for a better understanding of the record holdings of the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ and Records Administration (NARA) related to the looting, locating, recovering, and restituting Holocaust-Era assets.

or see a description in the Guide to Federal Records.