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German War Documents Project: German Foreign Ministry and other related archives:...
Catalogue reference: GFM 34
What's it about?
GFM 34
Microfilm copies of the records in GFM 33 (captured documents from the German Foreign Ministry archives, and from some other German ministries, concerning German foreign policy in the period 1867-1945) and GFM 36 (captured Italian documents), and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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GFM 34
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Title (The name of the record)
- German War Documents Project: German Foreign Ministry and other related archives: Microfilm Copies
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Date (When the record was created)
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[1804-1958]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Microfilm copies of the records in GFM 33 (captured documents from the German Foreign Ministry archives, and from some other German ministries, concerning German foreign policy in the period 1867-1945) and GFM 36 (captured Italian documents), and also of documents captured from the Japanese embassy in Rome, 1915 to 1943; captured records of German agencies operating in Italy and reporting to the Ministry for Armaments and War Production, 1943 to 1945; and a small number of miscellaneous German documents.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series is arranged according to serial numbers reflecting the order in which the captured records were first copied. The microfilms in this series were renumbered from a pre-existing sequence recorded in several manuscript ledgers (see GFM 1/45-48).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Items noted as wanting in pieces 45-48 are mainly films which were removed at various dates from the collection held by the Foreign [and Commonwealth] Office, and may now be found at the Imperial War Museum, for example documents relating to the Nuremberg War Trials, or technical documents in the former Ministry of Technology collection.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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GFM 30
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5588 microform
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in microform only
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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/C8594/
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Within the department: GFM
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