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The March 1942 reorganization of the War Department included a major overhaul of the MID. The Intelligence Branch was replaced by the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), which assumed principal responsibility for collecting, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence information. Additional changes followed during the war, so that by 1944 MIS consisted of the following major components: 1) Information Group 2) Intelligence Group; 3) Administrative Group; and, 4) Counterintelligence Group.
MID records for the interwar period largely consist of a central correspondence file, with associated indexes. The pre-1942 records, for the most part, are located in the Archives I Building and are serviced by the Textual Reference Branch within that building. {Note 1}
Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications ("Regional File") Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States, Foreign Governments, and Other Sources, 1922-1944 (Entry 77)
The records are arranged alphabetically by name or country or region and thereunder according to a numeric-subject filing scheme initially prepared by MID in 1920 as the Index Guide for Classification of Military Information. This index organized intelligence materials for a particular country or region into general and secondary subject categories, each of which was assigned four-digit numerical designations. In the 1940 edition of the index, information was organized into nine general categories: Geographic (1000-1320); Population and Social Conditions (2000-2950); Political (3000-3870); Economic (4000-5070); National Defense (5900-5990); Army (6000-6970); Navy (7000-7945); Air-Civil (8000-8290); and, Air-Military (9900-9960). For each country or region, additional miscellaneous subject files, correspondence, or memorandums are often appended to the end of the numeric-subject files. The Numerical Series of Intelligence Documents ("ID File"), which began in June 1944, was the successor to this series. See Records of the Army Staff (RG 319) for the
"ID" File.
Boxes 1-3335 location: 390/31/10/02
Box # Country and/or Subject
78-120 Argentina location: 390/31/11/06
146-149 Austria location: 390/31/13/01
150 Axis; folder entitled "Misc Axis Key Laws, Decrees and Regulations" contains a publication entitled "Key Laws, Decrees and Regulations Issued by the Axis in Occupied Europe." It was produced by the Reoccupation Division of the Blockade Branch of the Board of Economic Warfare, December 1942. location: 390/31/13/02
1051-1377 Germany location: 390/32/1/07
1936-2040 Italy location: 390/32/25/04
2271-2371 Latin America location: 390/32/33/06
2837-2853 Portugal location: 390/33/10/03
2900-2945 Spain location: 390/33/11/05
2968-2997 Sweden location: 390/33/12/07
2998-3007 Switzerland location: 390/33/13/05
3035-3062 Turkey location: 390/33/14/03
Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications ("P" File) Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States, Foreign Government and Other Sources, 1940-1945 (Entry 79)
This series includes intelligence report series issued by Allied, British, and U.S. operations commands; intelligence bulletins and reports periodically issued by specific Allied and U. S. organizations and agencies; and individual publications or special reports. The records are arranged in 24 alphabetical subseries (A-W), thereunder generally in alphabetical order by title, operational command (often by acronym), subject, country, or organization, and thereunder chronologically or numerically by report or publication number. A Continuation of the "P" File is located in Records of the Army Staff (RG 319). Boxes 1-2619 location: 390/33/21/02
Box # File/Publication Title
776 Economic Intelligence Summaries-SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces] Nos 1-34 1944-1945 Summary Report #29, dated March 21, 1945 contains information on "Allied Economic Relations with Switzerland."
location: 390/34/1/07
Economic Intelligence Weekly produced by the Economic Advisory Branch of the British Foreign Office. Nos. 1-14. 1945 location: 390/34/1/07
780 Economic Warfare-Blacklist location: 390/34/2/01
Economic Warfare-Blockade location: 390/34/2/01
780-784 Economic Warfare Intelligence Reports-From the Economic Warfare Division, American Embassy, London
location 390/34/2/01
784-787 Economic Warfare-Safehaven Reports-From the Economic Warfare Division, American Embassy, London location: 390/34/2/02
894-899 Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports regarding operations in Central and South America ca.1943-1945. Most of the records relate to Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, and Peru. location: 390/34/4/03
906 Finance Section Reports 1-8 Civil Affairs Branch HQ 12th Army Group June 6, 1944-September 28, 1944
location: 390/34/4/05
Financial Bulletin (folder marked as such) contains "Credit Suisse Zurich{Note 2} Financial Bulletin 1944" which is an English language edition of the Bank's Financial Bulletin of December 1944. location: 390/34/4/05
924-948 Foreign Economic Administration records location: 390/34/5/01
These records are reports prepared by the Foreign Economic Administration. Included are Report BL-141 "Smuggling Activities of Suspected Firms, Individuals, and Ships, by Commodity and Country," (Box 924); Report BL-189 "Swiss Export of Arms and Machinery Items to the Enemy," (Box 924); Report EIS-23 "Property of the Nazi Party; its Affiliates, Members, and Supporters in Germany," (Box 926); Report EIS-25 "Property Transferred Under the Nazi Regime in Germany," (Box 926); Report EIS-68 "German Economic Penetration and Exploitation of Southeastern Europe," (Box 927); Report EP-37 "Materials Inventory of the European Axis," (Box 931); Report "Looted Art in Occupied Territories and Neutral Countries and Latin America, Preliminary Report,"5 May 1945 (Box 932); and, Report ES-7 "German Economic Interests in Chile." (Box 934) Most of the reports in Boxes 935 to 948 relate to economic warfare against Japan and industry in Germany.
958 Fortnightly Summary of General Political and Economic Situation in Europe, Far East, Americas, United Nations. three folders 1944-1945 location: 390/34/5/05
1066 G-5 Weekly Intelligence Summary and Weekly Journal of Information SHAEF February-May 1945 location: 390/34/7/07
1082 German banking in 1944 prepared by Ministry of Economic Warfare May 5, 1945 location: 390/34/8/03
1090 German Press on Portugal and Spain prepared by British Embassy, Lisbon June 15, 1944 location: 390/34/8/03
1272-1274 M.E.W. Intelligence Weekly prepared by Ministry of Economic Warfare 1942-1945 location: 390/34/11/07
1331 Jewish Problem and British Policy (75 pp., September 18, 1937)
The Jewish Problem and the United States (69pp., January 18, 1939)
1335 La Suisse en Armes [1939-1945] hardback book written in French and published in 1945.location: 390/34/13/02
1350-1363 Justice Department-Economic Warfare Section Records 1942-1945 [included in boxes 1350-1351 are a Report on the Banque Nationale Pour Le Commerce et L'Industrie ("Laval's Bank") and a supplementary confidential report on the same subject.] location: 390/34/13/05
1604 Notes on Economic Intelligence prepared by Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare, 4 folders, 1943-1945 location: 390/34/18/06
1933 Proclaimed List of German Blocked Nationals and other proclaimed Lists of Certain Blocked Nationals prepared by Department of Justice 1941-1945 location: 390/34/25/04
1935 Program for German Economic and Industrial Disarmament-Final Report with Appendices prepared by the Enemy Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration December 20, 1945 location: 390/34/25/04
1989 Report on German Reparation to the President of the United States February-September 1945, a printed bound copy of the report prepared by the United States Representative and Associate Representative on the Allied Commission on Reparations September 20, 1945 location: 390/34/26/05
2051 Safehaven Targets No. 1-21 (1945) and Safehaven Intercepts No. 8 1945 prepared by the Foreign Economic Administration location: 390/34/27/07
2052-2053 Scavenger Special Reports prepared by G-2 SHAEF 1945
location: 390/34/27/07
2181 State Department Special Interrogation Mission, 3 folders of Interrogations September-November 1945
location: 390/34/30/05
2237 Summary of Enemy Economic Developments prepared by the Ministry of Economic Warfare December 29, 1941. Contains a section entitled "German Economic Relations with European Neutrals." location: 390/34/31/06
2404 Copies of various Treasury-printed reports including is a copy of Census of Foreign-Owned Assets in the Untied States (88pp. 1945); Documents Relating to Foreign Funds Control (January 30, 1942); Documents Relating to Foreign Funds Control (June 15, 1945); Preliminary Study of Corporations and Othe Forms of business Organizations in Nazi Germany: Concentration of Capital and Other Developments (June 13, 1944); Preliminary Study of German Clearing Agreements (July 27, 1944); and Articles of Agreements: Inter Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, N.H. July 1-22, 1944.
location: 390/34/35/02
Records of the Captured Personnel and Material Branch{Note 3}
Formerly Security-Classified Interrogation Reports and Correspondence on Prisoners of War (MIS-Y) 1943-1945 (Entry 179)
The records in this series constitutes a general reference collection of interrogations and intelligence reports received or collected by the Branch in Washington, DC. The series is organized into several subseries.
Boxes 349-772 location: 390/35/7/05
Reports - Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Center (CSDIC) Allied Forces HQ
Box Folder File # Subject
642 7 PWP33 German banking: Aspects of practice and notes on personalities (including Schacht, Funk, and Puhl). Information derived from 5 PW, all with banking experience in Germany, and includes details on the Reichsbank, the Deutsche Bau-undBodenbank AG, the Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen and personalities, 45 pp. November 17, 1944 Addendum to PWP33 includes comments on personalities (including Schacht, Funk, and Puhl), 3 pp. January 22, 1945
location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP34 Regional fiscal administration in Germany. Details supplied by 3 PW who worked in regional banks, 22 pp. November 13, 1944 location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP48 Working of a regional clearing house for savings banks in Germany. Information supplied by PW who was head of statistics department in a Dusseldorf bank, 26 pp. December 29, 1944.
location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP52 Reichswirtschaftsministerium (RWM): Functions and organization (Reich Ministry of Economics). Information furnished by PW who worked in foreign trade area and covers development of RWM, its position in the economic organization, internal organization, personalities, 49 pp. January 23, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP56 Aspects of German banking and insurance business. Details supplied by PW who was employed by several insurance companies, 27 pp. February 19, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP61 Notes on German museums and evacuation of German art treasures provided by 4 PW, 5 pp. March 4, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP65 Notes on administration of enemy property in Germany; PW who was administrator of all enemy banks in France, 4 pp. March 9, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
642 7 PWP67 Reichsbank and its relations with other institutions; details supplied by 2 PW, 49 pp. March 25, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP71 Social insurance in Germany. Two PW furnished details about direct and indirect Reich administration of insurance institutions; the working of social insurance: health, accident, pension; personalities, 33 pp. April 3, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP73 Transfer of enemy assets in France to the Treuhandstelle of the German military commander; the German Aero-Bank in Paris. Details supplied by PW who was administrator of all enemy banks in France, 5 pp. April 4, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP76 German banking. Details provided by 3 PW, former banking officials, 28 pp. April 12, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP79 German purchases of foreign and German securities, Sperrmark, foreign currency and gold in Paris. Information provided by PW, administrator of bank in Paris, 8 pp. April 14, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP89 German purchases of gold, foreign currency, and securities in black markets of France, Belgium and Holland. Interviews with 2 PW, 10 pp. May 6, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
643 1 PWP103 Organization and activities of Staatliche Kreditanstalt Oldenburg-Bremen and Bremer Landesbank. Details provided by PW, former employee of bank, 61 pp. June 23, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
644 1 PWP106 Personalities in the economic and statistical departments of the Reichsbank, 2 PW, 4 pp. June 5, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
644 1 PWP110 I.G. Farben - organization, central financial and commercial offices, economic espionage, personalities. Details supplied by PW, former employee in chemicals branch, 29 pp. June 13, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
644 1 PWP118 Organization and personalities of the Rechnungshof des Deutschen Reichs (State Accounts Department), 8 pp. June 27, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
644 1 PWP127 Organization and activities of Deutsche Siedlungsbank, Berlin, 16 pp. July 13, 1945 location: 390/35/13/05
644 1 PWP131 Germany's financial policy in occupied and quasi- occupied territories (excluding Russia and Poland). Information provided by PW, former fiscal administrator, 29 pp. July 25, 1945
location: 390/35/13/05
657 1 SIR10 Interrogation of foreign service official outlining his connections with SS and SD and contacts in Germany, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, 12 pp. January 30, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 1 SIR20 Amt VI activity in Switzerland, 3 pp. March 29, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 1 SIR38 Interrogation of Gen Lt der Waffen SS Oswald Pohl. Details on Pohl's activities for past year, 21 pp. June 4, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR25 Major ig Heinrich Maximilien Golcher. Details on his relationship with the Japanese Intelligence Service and also in connection with arrangements made for smuggling of ball bearings from Sweden to Germany, 5 pp. October 3, 1945
location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR73 Werner Dankwort, head of Political Dept. in German Legation, Stockholm, 2 pp. January 2, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR94 Kurt Freiherr von Schroder, banker, 4 pp. January 24, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR111 Lt d R Franz Mammen, merchant marine officer, assistant to German Naval Attache, Buenos Aires, 5 pp. February 16, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR113 Wilhelm von Pochhammer, official at German Embassy, Buenos Aires, 2 pp. February 16, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR117 Krafft Friedrich Wilhelm Simmross, member of Abw I M, KO Spain, 4 pp. February 21, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR118 Gottfried Julius Brandt, import merchant and position in Press Dept. of German Embassy, Buenos Aires, 7 pp. February 20, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR119 Oblt d R Johann Martin Muller, merchant and asst. to German Naval Attache, Buenos Aires, 5 pp. February 21, 1945 location: 390/35/13/07
657 2 PIR128 Franz Rudolf Schumann, salesman, assistant to German military attache, Buenos Aires, 4 pp. March 11, 1946 location: 390/35/13/07
661 1 SIR931 Dachau concentration camp, 12 pp. September 9, 1944 location: 390/35/13/07 662 1 SIR1185 Notes on Hitler, military hq, and special trains. Interrogation of confidential clerk to Luftwaffe general, 17 pp. November 13, 1944
location: 390/35/13/07
662 1 SIR1292 Insurance of French and German workers in France, 2 pp. December 3, 1944 location: 390/35/13/07
665 2 SIR1728 Amt VI, RSHA. Organization of central office, methods, agents, personalities, organizations with which Amt VI maintained liaison, foreign policy activities, etc. 88 pp. October 1, 1945 location: 390/35/14/01
666 1 M1090 German social insurance. Health, unemployment, and old age insurance, 7 pp. March 27, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
666 1 M1110 Financial conditions in Germany. Financial assets in Argentina, business activities of Nazi Party, banking conditions during the war, currency questions, security dealings, effect of air raid damage on commercial insurance, tax payments, Hamburg banking institutions and personalities, etc., 7 pp. April 2, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
666 1 M1122 Reich Ministry of Finance. Organization, future organization, recommendations for immediate action, financial activities, personalities, dispersal of the Ministry, etc. 16 pp. April 15, 1945
location: 390/35/14/02
666 1 M1128 Secret instructions to German bank, September 1944, 1 pp. April 14, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
666 1 M1141 Notes on banking and finance in Germany, 11 pp. April 29, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
666 2 M1184 Taxation and confiscation of church property in Nazi Germany, 9 pp. June 25, 1945
location: 390/35/14/02
667 1 M968 Misc. information including Dachau concentration camp, 7 pp. November 22, 1944
location: 390/35/14/02
668 1 M1065 Interrogation of PW who served with SS Guard Bn at Oranienburg/SA concentration camp. Duties of individual guard companies, suitcase department (where PW was assigned), treatment of prisoners, types of inmates and personalities, layout of main camp, etc. 23 pp. March 11, 1945
location: 390/35/14/02
668 2 NOI532 Legations Finance Department of the German Foreign Office, 4 pp. March 12, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
668 2 NOI548 SS economic enterprises, SS Arbeitslager, Leonberg, 5 pp. April 4, 1945
location: 390/35/14/02
668 2 NOI563 Personalities, German Foreign Office, 9 pp. April 14, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
669 1 NOI575 Dachau concentration camp, August 1944, 5 pp. April 24, 1944 location: 390/35/14/02
669 2 NOI610 Personalities of I.G. Farben, 13 pp. May 24, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
669 2 NOI616 I.G. Farben personalities, 11 pp. June 4, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
669 3 CI6 Descriptions of Nazi political personalities, listed by city of residence. 42 pp March 20, 1945 location: 390/35/14/02
Reports-Various
Box # File Title
743 Military Intelligence Service Report on Safehaven location: 390/35/15/01
745 State Department Special Interrogations (2 files) location: 390/35/15/02
Person Interrogated:
Ernst Wilhem Bohle
Heinrich Franz Johannes Borchers
Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff
Herbert Von Dirksen
Heinz T. Von Falkenstein
Ulrich Von Gienanth
Hermann Goering
Ander Hencke
Andor Hencke
Ernst Adolf Hepp
Baron Oswald Von Hoyningen-Huene
Hans Thomsen
Wilhelm Keppler{Note 4}
Dr. Eugene Klee
Hans-Heinrich Lammers
Otto Meissner
Baron Joseph Hermann F.E.M. Von Mentzingen
Gerhard Johannes Georg Kleeberg
Hanna Feldtange
Freihere C.H.K. Von Neurath
Dr. Hermann Neubacher
Captain Dietrich Niebuhr
Dr. Theodor Paeffgen
Franz Von Pappen
Friedrich W. Von Prittwitz
Richard Von Kuehlmann
Carl Berthold Franz Rekowski
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Karl Ritter
Paul Otto Gustave Schmidt
Franz Xaver Schwarz{Note 5}
Colonel Conrad Steinhaeuser
Dr. Karl Stroelin
Wilheim Ernst August Tannenberg
Fritz Ernst Adalbert van Twardowski
Dr. Edmund Veesenmayer
Records of the Central European Branch
Security-Classified General Correspondence 1919-1944 (Entry 181)
Boxes 932-956 location: 390/35/16/01
Box # Country Subject
942 Germany Current Events location: 390/35/16/03
943 Germany Economics location: 390/35/16/03
944 Germany Foreign Policy location: 390/35/16/03
946 Germany Jews (1935) location: 390/35/16/03
951 Germany Trade location: 390/35/16/04
{1}Return to text Among the records are the Formerly Security-Classified Correspondence and Reports, 1917-1941 (1,810 ft.); Formerly Security-Classified Record Cards for the Unclassified and Formerly Security Classified General Correspondence, 1917-1941 (75 ft.); Formerly Security-Classified Name Index (378 ft.), Subject Index (103 ft.), and Geographic Name Index (10 ft.) to Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division, 1917-1941.
{2}Return to text One of the three major Swiss banks. It was founded in 1856 and opened an American branch in 1940. It is headquartered in Zurich. The following information is provided to assist researchers to understand the Swiss banking system: the three major Swiss banks during and after World War II were Credit Suisse (founded 1856, American Branch established 1940; headquartered in Zurich), Swiss Bank Corporation (founded in 1872, American Branch established in 1939; headquartered in Basel), and the Union Bank of Switzerland (founded in 1912 and headquartered in Zurich). The Swiss have a Federal Banking Commission. It consists of seven to nine members appointed by the Federal Council. This body is ultimately responsible for regulating banking activity in Switzerland. The Swiss National Bank is the Central Bank of Switzerland. In addition to providing the confederation with a common currency, the bank is the governmental arm charged with carrying out the federal government's monetary policy. It is somewhat similar to the United States Federal Reserve Bank. However, it should be noted that the Swiss National Bank, founded in 1907, differs from other national banks in that it is not a state bank but has share holders, mainly cantons and other public bodies. The Swiss Bankers Association is a trade organization devoted to looking after the interests of the Swiss banking establishment.
{3}Return to text Throughout most of the war designated the Prisoner of War Branch.
{4}Return to text Hitler's personal adviser on economic affairs and the chief liaison between the Nazi Party and the business world.
{5}Return to text Treasurer of the Nazi party.
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