In response to state orders for the wholesale plunder of public and private property, more direct energy needed to be devoted to the mass syphoning and sorting of works for receivers like the Nazi elite, new regime collections, open market sale, or redirection to German citizens. In occupied regions, although there were ready-made networks of restorers who went on to combine their practical activities with dealing, the sheer volume of works that were in scope for larceny led the regime to create new state agencies to administer looting. To achieve this, in-house conservation personnel were employed directly by Nazi looting agencies to advance theft and redistribute spoils.