U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies, 1945-1954

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Summary

Creator:

United States. Army. European Command. Foreign Military Studies Branch

Abstract:

The U.S. Army European Command's Historical Division was charged with performing analyses and studies of military engagements and other events during World War II. Collection contains U.S. Army intelligence documents assembled from 1945-1954 by the European Command's Historical Division, which was charged with gathering information on the capabilities and strategies of the German and Soviet armies during and after World War II. The information centers on specific events and campaigns during World War II, and was gathered chiefly from German military officials and staff during trials and interrogations. Many of the documents have English translations. Formats include copies of transcriptions of interviews or interrogations, reports, and correspondence. Records are arranged by a number code assigned by United States Army Historical Division personnel. A published guide to the documents is included in the first box of the collection, as well as a list of the documents held by the library, which represent a partial set of the original U.S. Army files.

Extent:

9 Linear Feet
Approximately 2000 Items

Language:

Material in English and German

Collection ID:

RL.01326

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains a partial file of U.S. Army intelligence documents assembled from 1945-1954 by the European Command's Historical Division, which was charged with gathering information on the capabilities and strategies of the German and Soviet armies during and after World War II. The information centers on specific events and campaigns during World War II, and was gathered chiefly from German military officials and staff during trials and interrogations. Many of the documents have English translations. Formats include copies of transcriptions of interviews or interrogations, reports, and correspondence. Records are arranged by a number code assigned by United States Army Historical Division personnel. Also included in the first box is the Historical Division's Guide to Foreign Military Studies, 1945-1954, Catalog and Index (Headquarters, U.S. Army, Europe, 1954), which can be consulted for an introduction to the entire file of U.S. Army's documents, with lists of each series and indices of topics, authors, and military units. Appended to this is a list of the library's holdings.

Acquisition information:

The Foreign Military Studies were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1966.

Processing information:

Processed by Rubenstein Library staff

Encoded by Ted Holt and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, Nov. 2009

Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Related material:

Perkins Library at Duke also holds a microform serial, entitled "DA pam." Publication data: Washington, D.C. : Federal Research Division, Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. May contain same or similar information on Germany and Russia during World War II. Description: "Includes: German report series, published 1950?-1955?, based upon intelligence obtained from World War II German military officers and staff, prepared for the Historical Division, U.S. Army European Command. Also includes a series of studies on German military operations in the War, against forces other than the United States, issued 1956?-1959? by the Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Dept. of the Army."

Subjects

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Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns

Names:

United States. Army. European Command. Foreign Military Studies Branch
United States. Army. European Command. Foreign Military Studies Branch

Places:

Soviet Union -- History, Military

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[Identification of item], Foreign Military Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University