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Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments:...

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Reference	BT 273
Title	Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Account Cards
Date	c1950-c1957
Description	Account cards showing the value of enemy assets seized in the United Kingdom kept by the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments. The Account Cards in this series are incomplete. There are no Account Cards for Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Estonia or the ?German Baltic States?.
Arrangement	The cards are all grouped by country of enemy. The majority are then filed by TWE file number, but for assets where no TWE number could be traced are separately batched in alphabetical order.
Related material	See also the records of the Second World War depts Files of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957 Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948
Physical description	256 card(s)
Unpublished finding aids	There are no indexes to the account cards and the index to the TWE files has not survived. A numerical list of TWE file numbers survives in BT 271/807-815. Various indexes to vesting orders in BT 272 may assist in some cases.
Administrative/ biographical background	The decision to prepare summary accounts cards from the account folders appears to have been taken in 1950, probably to assist the takeover of assets by the various administrators from the Custodian of Enemy Property.

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