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Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section: General...
Catalogue reference: FO 945
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FO 945
This series reflects the broad scope of the General Department which dealt with most matters arising from control in Germany and Austria except for the purely economic and financial. A large section relates to displaced persons. There is also a...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 945
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Title (The name of the record)
- Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section: General Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series reflects the broad scope of the General Department which dealt with most matters arising from control in Germany and Austria except for the purely economic and financial. A large section relates to displaced persons. There is also a quantity of former War Office files which the Control Office re-registered, and these include a series of 'U.S. post-defeat directives'.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Control Office for Germany and Austria, General Department, 1945-1947
- Foreign Office, Control Office for Germany and Austria, General Department, 1945-1945
- Foreign Office, German Section, General Department, 1947-1948
- War Office, Control Office for Germany and Austria, General Department, 1944-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 960 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1978 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8244/
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