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Series
Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for...
Catalogue reference: FO 1060
What's it about?
FO 1060
This series contains files of the Legal Division. The files deal with the administration of justice (including the prosecution of war criminals), within the British Zone, together with legal opinions on all aspects of the responsibilities of the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1060
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Title (The name of the record)
- Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Legal Division, and UK High Commission, Legal Division: Correspondence, Case Files, and Court Registers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1943-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Legal Division. The files deal with the administration of justice (including the prosecution of war criminals), within the British Zone, together with legal opinions on all aspects of the responsibilities of the Allied Military Government and the Control Commission for Germany. They include the records of many individual courts and trials.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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The naming of a defendant within this catalogue does not imply guilt.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Information on the outcome of trials is not held by The National Archives.
Records on Field Marshal von Manstein's trial in: WO 238
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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)
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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, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Legal Division, 1945-1947
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Legal Division, 1947-1953
- Foreign Office, High Commissioner for West Germany, Legal Division, 1954-1955
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5739 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1985 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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- Topics
- International
- Europe and Russia
- Legal
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8359/
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Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Legal Division, and UK High Commission, Legal Division: Correspondence, Case Files, and Court Registers
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