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Series
Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Combined Travel...
Catalogue reference: FO 1071
What's it about?
FO 1071
This series contains registered files of the Combined Travel Security Board, later the Combined Travel Board, and the Zonal Travel Directorate and its Bureaux. comprises Files on travel restrictions, interzonal boundaries, frontier and passport...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1071
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Combined Travel Security Board, later Combined Travel Board, and Zonal Travel Directorate and Bureaux: Registered Files (CTB and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1944-1954
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Combined Travel Security Board, later the Combined Travel Board, and the Zonal Travel Directorate and its Bureaux. comprises Files on travel restrictions, interzonal boundaries, frontier and passport control, movements of refugees, Allied Immigration Inspectors and permits for businessmen.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Microfilms within this series have been catalogued to item level. The items have been numbered arbitrarily for system reasons; the item numbers do not appear on the microfilm images.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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CTB file series
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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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- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Combined Travel Board, 1951-1953
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Combined Travel Security Board, 1948-1951
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Zonal Travel Directorate, 1949-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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183 files and microform
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8370/
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