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West Europe: German ground situation, Feb 22. East Europe: GAF night fighter operations...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/3539
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This record is about the West Europe: German ground situation, Feb 22. East Europe: GAF night fighter operations... dating from 1945 Feb 23 in the series Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HW 1/3539
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945 Feb 23
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West Europe: German ground situation, Feb 22.
East Europe: GAF night fighter operations over Breslau.
Germany: GAF night fighter successes will turn attention of Allies to their airfields, orders for dispersal and camouflage, Feb 22; instructions on routing, unloading and storing of war gas ammunition, Feb 19.
South Europe: Germans have given assurances about preserving Verona's works of art, Allies' air attacks show they have no such desire, Feb 14.
Naval Headlines.
German Minister of Foreign Affairs to Legation, Dublin: call for western powers to side with Germany and Japan against might of Soviets before they spread Communism over all of Europe, to be leaked to influential Englishmen and Americans, Feb 16; wait for further instructions before acting on above, Feb 20.
Japanese ambassador, Italy: war situation in northern Italy, Feb 13.
Japanese ambassador, Berlin: conversation with Ribbentrop on war situation and post-war Europe, Feb 19.
Chinese ambassador to Poland, London: Polish government in London rejects Yalta partition of Poland, Feb 17.
French Foreign Ministry: initial reactions to Yalta declaration, Feb 15.
French ambassador, Turkey: Turkish views on Yalta, Feb 17.
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs: propaganda directives, Feb 15.
French minister, Cairo: Churchill and Roosevelt hold talks in Egypt with Arab leaders, Feb 17.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- c/8659
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- Open Document, Open Description
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