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Foreign Office and Successors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element),...
Catalogue reference: FO 1078
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FO 1078
This series contains Field Information Agency Technical reports of interrogation of Albert Speer and other civilian personalities, intelligence reports, Ministerial Collecting Centre reports and German Ministry for Production documents and...
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FO 1078
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Successors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Field Information Technical, and Reich Ministry for War Production, and other Agencies: Interrogation and Intelligence Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Field Information Agency Technical reports of interrogation of Albert Speer and other civilian personalities, intelligence reports, Ministerial Collecting Centre reports and German Ministry for Production documents and papers. The records are largely concerned with German economic administration and politics.
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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, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Field Information Agency Technical, 1945-1947
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Field Information Agency Technical, 1944-1945
- Ministry for Armaments and Munitions, Germany, 1939-1942
- Ministry for Armaments and War Production, Germany, 1943-1945
- War Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Field Information Agency Technical, 1945-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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237 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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Albert Speer was German Minister for Armaments and Munitions, 1942-1943 and Minister for Armaments and War Production, 1943-1945.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8377/
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