TLS Lammers

 

TLS Hans Lammers to Josef Bürckel

 On Confiscated Austrian Art



Date: May 4, 1939

Location: Berlin, Germany

Medium: Typed letter signed (TLS)

Collection: Yavneh Klos Collection, Nazi Perpetrators Archive 

Chief of the Reich Chancellery Hans Lammers informs Josef Bürckel that Adolf Hitler has reserved final authority over confiscated Austrian artworks. The letter directs cooperation with Nazi art dealer Karl Haberstock, who was inspecting looted collections for Hitler’s planned Führer Museum. This correspondence illustrates the regime’s systematic cultural plunder and the central role of high-ranking officials in Nazi art theft. It is estimated that over 100,000 of the 600,000 works of art seized by the Nazis have never been restored to their rightful, primarily Jewish, owners.

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