Walter Farmer (1911–1997) was a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
He drafted the Wiesbaden manifesto, which led much of the artwork the US Army had collected during World War II to be returned to their countries of origin.
The collection points were Allied locations where artwork and cultural artifacts that the Nazi regime had confiscated and hidden throughout Germany and Austria were processed, photographed, and redistributed.
In 1996, the German government honored Farmer with the crimson Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of Merit.
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