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Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria:...
Catalogue reference: FO 942
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FO 942
These files reflect all aspects of the work of the Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and were taken over and registered by the Control Office for Germany and Austria. Subject matter includes political and constitutional policy towards...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 942
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Title (The name of the record)
- Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1943-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files reflect all aspects of the work of the Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and were taken over and registered by the Control Office for Germany and Austria. Subject matter includes political and constitutional policy towards occupied territories in Europe as well as economic, financial, industrial and scientific matters. Although the bulk of the series relates to Austria and Germany, there are also files on Allied control in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, on peace treaty negotiations with Italy and on broad questions of restitution, reparations etc. affecting other European countries.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1945-1947
- Economic and Industrial Planning Staff, 1944-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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550 file(s)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Economic and Industrial Planning Staff (EIPS) was set up in April 1944 as an inter-departmental standing committee responsible to the foreign secretary, to formulate and co-ordinate economic and industrial policy towards Germany. Italy and the axis satellite powers were added to its brief later in 1944, and the Far East after the end of the war in Europe. The chairman and secretariat came from the Economic Advisory Branch of the Foreign Office.
The work of the EIPS in respect of Germany and Austria passed to the Control Office for Germany and Austria at the end of 1945, leaving the EIPS (Far Eastern) associated with the Economic Intelligence, Economic Warfare and Far Eastern Economic Departments of the Foreign Office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8241/
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