Catalogue description Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria: Records

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Reference: FO 942
Title: Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria: Records
Description:

These files reflect all aspects of the work of the Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and were taken over and registered by the Control Office for Germany and Austria. Subject matter includes political and constitutional policy towards occupied territories in Europe as well as economic, financial, industrial and scientific matters. Although the bulk of the series relates to Austria and Germany, there are also files on Allied control in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, on peace treaty negotiations with Italy and on broad questions of restitution, reparations etc. affecting other European countries.

Date: 1943-1947
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1945-1947

Economic and Industrial Planning Staff, 1944-1945

Physical description: 550 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Economic and Industrial Planning Staff (EIPS) was set up in April 1944 as an inter-departmental standing committee responsible to the foreign secretary, to formulate and co-ordinate economic and industrial policy towards Germany. Italy and the axis satellite powers were added to its brief later in 1944, and the Far East after the end of the war in Europe. The chairman and secretariat came from the Economic Advisory Branch of the Foreign Office.

The work of the EIPS in respect of Germany and Austria passed to the Control Office for Germany and Austria at the end of 1945, leaving the EIPS (Far Eastern) associated with the Economic Intelligence, Economic Warfare and Far Eastern Economic Departments of the Foreign Office.

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