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Appendix P: Statistics on various nationals released from Buchenwald,
Mauthausen, and subcamps Linz, Ebensee, Gusen, and Neubau
III.47 Records of the U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section
of Headquarters U.S. Forces in Austria (HQ USFA)
Organized in July 1945 concurrently with USFA, USACA was responsible for
civil affairs and military government administration in the American zone of the
four­power occupation of postwar Austria. USACA was abolished in September
1950 with the appointment of a U.S. High Commissioner for Austria.
III.48 German External Assets Branch
Postwar reports on the SS­run concern Deutsche Erd­und Stein Werke
(DEST), implicated in the use of slave labor at the Mauthausen complex,
are included in the series “Reports on Businesses, 1945–50” (see folders 151
and 151A, box 71, location: 390/53/08/04). Most of the material pertains to
1946–48 when Austrian assets of DEST were put under public administra­
tion, with a trustee appointed by the Property Control Section of the
American Military Government in Upper Austria. A small amount of mate­
rial documents the origin and World War II organization of the concern.
Folder 151A includes photostatic copies of German documents pertaining
to the 1940 reorganization of DEST under control of the SS holding com­
pany Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH. in Berlin.
RECORD GROUP 331, RECORDS OF ALLIED OPERATIONAL
AND OCCUPATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WORLD WAR II
III.49 General Records of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
Force (SHAEF) 1942–1946
Headed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, SHAEF was an integrated U.S.­
British organization responsible to the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CSS) and
charged with planning and executing the cross­channel invasion of German­
occupied Western Europe (Operation Overlord).
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