Acronyms found in the Nazi-Era Cultural Property Project records

A CCAC (L) - Combined Civil Affairs Committee, London ACA - Allied Commission for Austria CCNA - Combined Committee for French North and West ACAO - Allied Cultural Affairs Officer African Civil Affairs ACLS - American Council of Learned Societies COGA - Control Office for and Austria AEF - Allied Expeditionary Force CORC - Coordinating Committee - Allied Control Authority AFHQ - Allied Force Headquarters CRE - Corps of Royal Engineers AKB - Allied Kommandatura AMG - Allied Military Government D AMSSO - Air Ministry Special Signals Office DCA - Directorate for Civil Affairs [War Office] DMI - Directorate of Military Intelligence B DP - Displaced Persons BAOR - British Army on the Rhine DSK - Devisenschutzkommando BICO - Bipartite Control Office E C EAC - European Advisory Commission CA - Civil Affairs [War Office] ECO - Educational and Cultural Organisation CAME - Conference of Allied Ministers of Education EIPS - Economic and Industrial Planning Staff CCG - Control Commission for Germany [British Element] ERR - Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg CIOS - Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee ETO - European Theatre of Operations ETOUSA - European Theatre Operation Army EWD - Economic Warfare Department [Foreign Office] N NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers’ Party F FO - Foreign Office O OKW - Supreme Command of the Armed Forces [Germany] G OIRP - Office Interallié des Restitutions et Prestations GAF - German Air Force ORC - Overseas Reconstruction Committee GRO - German Restitution Offices OSS - Office of Strategic Services

I P I A and C - Internal Affairs and Communications PID - Political Intelligence Department IARA - Inter-Allied Reparations Agency PW - Prisoners of War IGCR - Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees ISTD - Interservice Topographical Department R R DR - Reparations, Deliveries and Restitutions Division J JIC - Joint Intelligence sub-Committee JRSO - Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation JRU - Jewish Relief Unit [of the Jewish Committee for Relief S Abroad] SACMED - Supreme Alied Commander Mediterranean JSMW - Joint Staff Mission Washington SCAEF - Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force JTC - Jewish Trust Corporation SCAP - Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers SEAC - South East Asia Command K SHAEF - Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force KVA - Kriegsverwaltungsassessor [Kunstschutz] SMGO - Senior Military Government Officer [British Military Government in Austria/Germany too?] M SPCOM/FED - Special Committee of the Allied High MEW - Ministry of Economic Warfare Commission for Germany MFA and A - Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives SS - Schutzstaffel US - United States T USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics TWED - Trading with the Enemy Department W U WJC - World Jewish Congress UK - WO - War Office UN - United Nations UNRRA - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Z Administration ZEO - Zonal Executive Offices

Records selection, introduction and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the information provided.