Category:Office des biens et intérêts privés

English: The Office des biens et intérêts privés (Office of private goods and interests), also known as OBIP, is a service of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs created in 1918 after the Great War. Its initial mandate to recover the foreign property interests of French citizens in the wake of international conflict and displacement. After the Second World War, the bureau was engaged in gathering works of art recovered from Germany whose legitimate owners could not be traced. The works are temporarily assigned to French museums in order to allow rightful claimants to identify their properties.