France -- Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]

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Germany invaded France on May 10, 1940. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice with Germany, which split the country into an occupied north and an unoccupied south. On November 11, 1942, Germany renounced the armistice and occupied all of France. Less than two years later France was free of German occupation. The French Committee for National Liberation, formed in Algiers in 1943, established a provisional government in Paris headed by General Charles de Gaulle. Both the United States and the United Kingdom on October 23, 1944, recognized the French Provisional Government. The Fourth Republic was created on December 24, 1946.

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Paris, France

General Records 1936-1941, 1944-1953 (Entry 2452A)
   
                Boxes 1-574 location: 350/55/22/07

Classified General Records 1944-1953 (Entry 2453A)

        Boxes 1-201 location: 350/55/35/02

Top Secret General Records 1944-1949, 1950-1951, 1954 (Entry 2454A)

        Boxes 1-28 location: 350/56/4/03
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        1  704.54  Swiss Codes (1948)
                        711  German Archives (1945)
            711.3  Arpad Plesch [alleged financial transactions conducted by  Plesch with the Deutsche Bank, Berlin, during the  war] (1947)
            711.5  Displaced Persons (1948)
            711.9  Germany (1945-1946)
            711.9  Reparations-Germany (1948) location: 350/56/4/03
        2  800  Germany (1946-1948) location: 350/56/4/03
        4  851.5  Currency-Germany (1948)
            501.5  Currency-Germany (1949) location: 350/56/4/04

Top Secret General Records 1950 (Entry 2454B)

        Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/04

Top Secret General Records 1952 (Entry 2454C)

        Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/05

Top Secret General Records 1953 (Entry 2454D)

        Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/06

Miscellaneous Top Secret General Records (Entry 2456)

        Box 1  location: 350/56/4/07
Records of the Political Advisor to SHAEF (Paris), France
       
General Correspondence 1943-1944 (Entry 2483)

        Box 1  location: 350/56/17/04

Special Correspondence 1943-1944 (Entry 2484)

        Box 1  location: 350/56/17/04
            (Contained in the same box 1 as Entry 2483)

Country Files 1943-1944 (Entry 2485)

        This series is arranged alphabetically by country name and thereunder  alphabetically by subject. 
        Boxes 2-9 location: 350/56/17/04
        Box #  Country
        2  Belgium
            Czechoslovakia
            Finland
        3-6  France
        7-8  Germany
        9  Greece
            Italy
            Luxembourg
            Netherlands
            Norway
            Poland
            Rumania
            Spain
            Turkey
            Yugoslavia

Subject Files 1943-1944 (Entry 2486)

        This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.
            Boxes 10-22  location: 350/56/17/05
            Box #  File Title
            10  Civil Affairs (3 files)
            11  Combined Civil Affairs Committee (2 files)
            12  Finance and Currency
                                G-2 Daily News Summaries
                G-2 Weekly News Summaries
            13  G-2 Intelligence Notes
            14  G-5 Civil Affairs Summaries
                Joint Intelligence Committee
            15  Neutral Countries
            20  O.S.S. Intelligence Reports
                O.S.S. and U.S. Navy Reports
            22  Refugees and Displaced Persons
                War Criminals
           
Messages 1943-1944 (Entry 2487)

        Boxes 23-25  location: 350/56/17/07

Records of the U.S. Embassy Vichy, France

General Records 1940-1942 (Entry 2489)

        Boxes 1-42 location: 350/56/17/07

        1940
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        13  840.1  Jews
            850  Economic Matters, including Swiss Trade
            851  Financial Conditions location: 350/56/18/02
        1941
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        27  711  Neutrality
            711.2  Neutral Commerce location: 350/56/18/04
        29  840.1  Jews  location: 350/56/18/04
        30  850  Economic Matters
            851  Financial Conditions location: 350/56/18/04
        1942
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        40  711.2  Trading With Enemy, Proclaimed List location: 350/56/18/06
        41  840.1  Jews location: 350/56/18/06
        42  850.6  Insurance
            851.6  Banks and Banking
            854  Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights location: 350/56/18/06

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1940-1942 (Entry 2490)
       
        Boxes 1-21 location: 350/56/18/06

        1940
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        1  -  Financial location: 350/56/18/06
        1941
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        2  -  France-Banque Worms
            -  France-Economic-Financial
            -  France-Franco-German Economic Collaboration
location: 350/56/18/06
        3  -  Financial (Matthews Telegrams to Treasury)
            -  Germany
            800  Germany location: 350/56/18/07
        4  -  Unlabeled folder containing information on the Proclaimed List and  other subjects location: 350/56/18/07
        7  -  France-Political (Collaboration) Franco-German Relations
        1942
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        11  711.2  Neutral Commerce (2 folders)
            711.2  Proclaimed List
            800  Franco-Spanish Relations
            800  South America location: 350/56/19/01
        14  800  Reports from Legation, Consulates in Switzerland
location: 350/56/19/01
        15  800  Geneva Reports location: 350/56/19/01
        18  840.1  Jews (3 folders) location: 350/56/19/02
        18-19  850  Economic Matters (2 folders) location: 350/56/19/02
        19  851  Financial Conditions
            851.6  Banks and Banking
            854  Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights location: 350/56/19/02

Miscellaneous Records 1942 (Entry 2491)

        Box 1  location: 350/56/19/02

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