English Translation

2m142 Reichszentrale zur Geführung von Kunstwerkffalten. RdErl, of the RSHA of 1 June 1941 — V B 2 (new) No. 1570/40 — () The criminal police are responsible for the processing of works of art falsification. () The Reichszentrale in the Reichskriminalpolizei (Reichszenite) for the fight against forgery of works of art has the following tasks: a) recording of all the advertisements it reports about forgeries of the visual arts (sculpture, painting, graphics, arts and crafts, furniture, carpets, pre- and early-historical finds, etc.), evaluation of all news about forgers of works at home and abroad and indexing of forgerys, management of a file of forgers and falsifiers of objects of the fine arts as well as the distributors of falsified works of work of art. (b) Central processing of advertisements on forgeries of works of art that are of particular importance or of their nature and scope. (c) Permanent cooperation with the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste and its regional authorities, with the research community "Das Ahnenerbe", the directors of museums and public art collections, the "International Association of Museum Officials to Fight Counterfeits and Unfair Business Organisms" and with the Maltechnische Forschungsanstalt. the appearance of falsified or significant or recognised works of art in the distribution of such works within their criminal police department (head office) report z against forgers or distributors of criminal police (head offices) have obtained in the Mel the gendarmerie departments in addition of forgeries of works of work or the Ver, immediately to the Reich for the fight against Forgeries of works of art (*) The State Police and SD (Head) sections must notify the relevant criminal police department of the processes involved in their service via forgeries. (") The Reichskammer der bildenden Künste has instructed its national authorities to carry out their tasks in the field of the fight against forgeries of works of art in constant cooperation with the criminal police.