Treuhandvermögen- Bericht der Gruppe III

The file contains a report concerning several institutions working on and with confiscated private property in the Nazi administration. The first section provides information on asset management, for example the supervisory authority and the Brussels trust company. The supervision and administration of private property, which was confiscated by the military administration, was largely the responsibility of Group XII of the economic department. The second section provides information on enemy property law, for example on the general principles, legal developments in Belgium, defines hostile states and enemies, describes the administration of hostile property, industrial property rights and copyright. Furthermore, details about the duty to provide information about owned property and about the potential penalties are given. The legal process of the property registration, divided into trading and industrial companies, banks and insurance companies, press and film companies, real estate, security monitoring, handling of goods are explained. Also wealth treatment in special cases is explained.