Catalogue description Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section: Legal: Files

This series contains files from the legal sections of the Control Commission and Control Office and Foreign Office German Department, many from the office of Sir Alfred Brown, legal adviser in succession to these three. As well as the provision and administration of civil and military legal services in occupied territory for both residents and occupation personnel, they deal with the reform of the German legal and administrative system. The series includes an incomplete set of minutes and papers of the Allied Control Authority Legal Directorate.

For the official and semi-official papers of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross during the period 1921 to 1946, mainly cobcerned with international economic affairs, see T 188

Control Office for Germany and Austria, Legal Advisor, 1945-1947

Foreign Office, German Section, Legal Advisor, 1947-1955