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Japananese military attaché, Madrid: report of meeting on Apr 5 with German military...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/3688

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This record is about the Japananese military attaché, Madrid: report of meeting on Apr 5 with German military... dating from 1945 Apr 8 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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1945 Apr 8

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Japananese military attaché, Madrid: report of meeting on Apr 5 with German military attaché, very pessimistic view of the war, Germany appeared finished, German attaché expected some serious incident would occur in the next week or so.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin: propaganda update of Apr 3, instructions to push line that Soviet Union had plans to expand in Baltic, taking in Denmark and Sweden, discuss dispute about votes at San Francisco Conference but do not exagerate disputes between Soviet Union and UK, these differences obviously not deep as Mrs Churchill had gone to Moscow.

Japanese ambassador, Moscow: confidential war report received from Tokyo quoting major developments in Far East since mid-March, Apr 2.

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