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GPD headlines: brief headlines of translated GP messages for section notice boards...
Catalogue reference: HW 16/15
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This record is about the GPD headlines: brief headlines of translated GP messages for section notice boards... dating from 1945 in the series Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HW 16/15
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945
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GPD headlines: brief headlines of translated GP messages for section notice boards of 4 IS BP; GPH 12 of Mar 3 refers to crematoria, probably at concentration camps, being unable to obtain fuel for operations in spite of being on fuel priority list; GPH 20 of Apr 7 quotes order giving commanders of concentration camps full independent authority for ordering executions; GPH 25 of Apr 6 quotes Himmler's order for transfering prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp to Flossenburg
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- GPH 1-25
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C993771/
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HW 16
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