Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau

Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau, between Barthel, curator of the Schlossmuseum in Breslau, Posse of the Staatliche Gemaeldegalerie Dresden for the 'Sonderauftrag Linz', Gauleiter Hanke in Breslau, and others. The correspondence refers especially to artworks confiscated in the Generalgouvernement and in Silesia, and to artworks with any connection to Silesia, mentioned is e.g. the Mannheimer collection from Amsterdam. Fritz Sjölin Mannheimer was a German-born and, from 1936, Dutch banker and art collector who was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the Berlin-based investment bank Mendelssohn & Co. Mannheimer died under mysterious circumstances in 1939, and the entire Mendelssohn firm was forcibly liquidated by the Nazis later that same year, and much of Mannheimer's art was acquired by Adolf Hitler in 1941, after the German invasion of the Netherlands. Another collection mentioned is the armory collection Trevelot de Trevalot. Attached is a long list of desiderata to expand the Breslau collections as the leading German museum of the East.