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Catalogue description Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Censorship Bureau and Intelligence Division: Registered Files (CEN/BUR Series)
| Reference: | FO 1047 |
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| Title: | Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Censorship Bureau and Intelligence Division: Registered Files (CEN/BUR Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains records of the the Censorship Bureau and, later, the censorship sub-division of the Intelligence Division of the Control Commission for Germany concerning the organisation and administration of district censorship stations, travelling censorship units and testing centres in the British zone of occupied Germany, There are also a few headquarters files dealing with operations of censorship by the Control Commission. |
| Date: | 1944-1948 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | CEN/BUR file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Control Office for Germany and Austria, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Censorship Bureau, 1945-1947 Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Intelligence Division, 1947-1951 |
| Physical description: | 93 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Censorship Bureau and successor dealt with all aspects of the censorship of the mail of civilians, service personnel, displaced persons and prisoners of war in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. |
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