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Miscellaneous notes and working aids for accompanying batch of German language message...
Catalogue reference: HW 16/44
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This record is about the Miscellaneous notes and working aids for accompanying batch of German language message... dating from 1941-1943 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 16/44
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1941-1943
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Miscellaneous notes and working aids for accompanying batch of German language message decrypts illustrating war crimes and sent to the Foreign Office in 1943 as arranged in piece 54 of HW 14; list of GP and SS leadership 1941-42; list of COs of Police Battalions; Note C, GP abbreviations; Note E, list of GP callsigns and identifications; Note F, GP message addresses; Note G, example of GP message preamble; ZIP/GML 23 of Jan 4 1943, List of GP Officials in German Occupied Countries
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Open Document, Open Description
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These documents are from a file of German language messages made in Oct 1942 at the request of the Foreign Office and probably the Attorney General's Office to be used at the end of the war by the Commission for the investigation of War Crimes. This file was lent to the United States National Security Agency in 1981/82 for photo-copying and passing to the US Department of Justice, in association with US investigation of war crimes. In fact the US did release photo-copies of some of this material to their public in Nov 1996 for the period July - Sept 1941, providing evidence of German war crimes against Jews on the Russian Front.
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HW 16
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