Catalogue description German War Documents Project: South African Government Selections (S Afr)

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Reference: GFM 8
Title: German War Documents Project: South African Government Selections (S Afr)
Description:

Copies of files from the captured German Foreign Ministry Archives, filmed for the German War Documents Project, relating to South Africa and to wider African questions, for example the proposed telegraph route (1898 to 1909) between Cairo and the Cape. These files were selected for filming by the South African Government.

The film copies (negative and positive) duplicate the material represented by paper prints.

Date: 1869-1914
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: S Afr
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Physical description: 190 microform
Access conditions: Available in microform only unless otherwise stated
Selection and destruction information: Printed material found in the files has been omitted in all cases where it was deemed to be of such a nature that it can readily be found in research repositories and libraries in South Africa.

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