Description
Object description
Extensive collection (circa 760 boxes) of photocopies, with some originals and translations, of a wide variety of documents pertaining largely to military and related matters in Germany during the 1920s and the `Third Reich' period, broadly comprising: files on the structure and organisation of the `Reichswehr' and military administration in the Weimar Republic; High Command planning documents of the 1930s; `Fuhrer Directives'; War Diaries and other records of the Armed Forces and Army High Commands (OKW, OKH); Military Intelligence files (Abwehr, Fremde Heere West & Ost); Army Unit War Diaries 1939 - 1945 (Western European theatres including Operation `Sealion', Norway, Eastern Front & Balkans, North Africa, Italy and Sicily); Army Organisation including Strengths and Casualties, Orders of Battle; Army Officers' Record Cards; Naval Staff Operations Division (SKL) War Diary; files on particular subjects (V-Weapons, SS documents, 20th July 1944 (Bomb Plot) files, Hitler personal documents (including private and political testaments), fortifications, Organisation Todt etc); Diaries of Franz Halder, Alfred Jodl, Josef Goebbels; extensive records of the Personal Staff, Reichsfuhrer-SS (`Himmler Papers'). Also a series of `EDS Appreciations', historical studies on German Armed Forces operations prepared by the Cabinet Office Historical Section and based largely on the records described, and related papers (`EDS Miscellaneous').
Content description
Extensive collection (circa 760 boxes) of photocopies, with some originals and translations, of a wide variety of documents pertaining largely to military and related matters in Germany during the 1920s and the `Third Reich' period, broadly comprising: files on the structure and organisation of the `Reichswehr' and military administration in the Weimar Republic; High Command planning documents of the 1930s; `Fuhrer Directives'; War Diaries and other records of the Armed Forces and Army High Commands (OKW, OKH); Military Intelligence files (Abwehr, Fremde Heere West & Ost); Army Unit War Diaries 1939 - 1945 (Western European theatres including Operation `Sealion', Norway, Eastern Front & Balkans, North Africa, Italy and Sicily); Army Organisation including Strengths and Casualties, Orders of Battle; Army Officers' Record Cards; Naval Staff Operations Division (SKL) War Diary; files on particular subjects (V-Weapons, SS documents, 20th July 1944 (Bomb Plot) files, Hitler personal documents (including private and political testaments), fortifications, Organisation Todt etc); Diaries of Franz Halder, Alfred Jodl, Josef Goebbels; extensive records of the Personal Staff, Reichsfuhrer-SS (`Himmler Papers'). Also a series of `EDS Appreciations', historical studies on German Armed Forces operations prepared by the Cabinet Office Historical Section and based largely on the records described, and related papers (`EDS Miscellaneous').
Label
German analysis of the organisation of MI6. This assessment was prepared in 1940 in readiness for the planned occupation of the United Kingdom.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2002-03
