Catalogue description Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section: Prisoners of War: Files

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Reference: FO 939
Title: Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section: Prisoners of War: Files
Description:

This series contains files of the Control Office for Germany and Austria and subsequently of the Foreign Office German Section, relating to all aspects of the treatment of prisoners of war under British control, not only in the United Kingdom but in the Middle East and elsewhere. About one quarter of the series consists of files on particular prisoner of war camps and on lectures at particular camps. Also includes files of the Political Intelligence Department's Prisoner of War Division.

Date: 1940-1950
Related material:

For files of the Political Intelligence Department see:

FO 898

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

Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1945-1947

Foreign Office, Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1945-1945

Foreign Office, German Section, 1947-1956

Foreign Office, Political Intelligence Department, Prisoner of War Division, 1939-1946

War Office, Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1944-1945

Physical description: 469 file(s)

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