Volume 92 · 1817
Public Law 95–517
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to return to the Federal Republic of Germany ten paintings of the German Navy seized by the United States Army at the end of World War II.
Approved October 25, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to return to the Federal Republic of Germany ten paintings of the German Navy seized by the United States Army at the end of World War II.
Be, it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Naval paintings, return to Federal Republic of Germany.
of the Army is authorized to transfer to the Federal Republic of Germany, without compensation, title to, and custody of, ten paintings by the artist Claus Bergen depicting the German Navy that were seized from the German Government by the United States Army after World War II.
Sec. 2.
No funds of the United States may be expended in connection with any transportation or handling costs incident to the transfer authorized under the first section of this Act.
Approved October 25, 1978.