STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2129, sig. 109-8/12 Page 31 · 31 of 54
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2129, sig. 109-8/12
English Translation
As from June 19, 1943, the report of the mission staff (I) Rinnebach. FeEEEE0ERBeESEBES0SEEasee3EEeEE38S830SSSEEEES Referring to the report on the activities of the deployment staff of June 1, 1943. A further report on the Kunet property found in the inventarized castles will be presented in connection with an overall report on each castle.The artistic values, such as pictures, antique furniture, tenpiche, etc., represent a considerable cultural value, and it would be possible for a other use of the castles to ensure that these cultural assets are recorded in good time, transferred to museums, and thus preserved to the general public. Since the time of its deployment, the staff has considered it a prime task to maintain and preserve the locks and to keep them in the condition in which they were encountered. In addition, the most important art value was handed over to the museums, such as the Heeresmuseum, the Bohemian-Mauritian State Gallery, etc., in consultation with the competent authorities to be loyal hands, with the less important ones being exploited by the asset. For example, castles were selected and handed over to the above-named museums for many other purposes: approximately 350o pictures, miniatures, sculptures, copper engravings, furniture, several looo weapons, libraries, and archives, the removal of which was partly monitored and carried out by the staff. Also from Jewish possession valuable pictures, furniture etc. by the staff of commission and partly forwarded to the museums via the wealth office. (S.Report Prof. Swoboda). During visits it was found that a large part of valuable cultural heritage from the seers Oslawan and Habrowan, (REV-Gomperz) in which according to information from the Prague office, etchings from Dürer and Rembrandt as well as other valuable pictures were found and furniture, disappeared without trace and the castles were completely cleared out in the year l94l. It is pointed out here the report of the l5.3.l943, which is added again in copy. It was also noted that about 85 paintings, gobelins and erasers (REv - Gomperz) by the most important painters such as Breughel, van Dyk, Luka Granach, Paolo Veronese, Pettenkofer, Moritz von Schwindt, Spitzweg, Waldmüller and many more, at the time to the company Karl Herzig