Records of United States Army Commands, 1942- (RG 338) [Theaters of Operations Records]


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Records of European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army

The top administrative headquarters over the United States Army's combat and service forces and troop units in the European Theater of Operations from June 8, 1942, to July 1, 1945, was known as Headquarters United States Army European Theater of Operations, or ETOUSA. On July 1, 1945, ETOUSA was renamed United States Forces European Theater (USFET).

Records of the Secretary, General Staff

Classified General Correspondence 1944-1945
   
                Boxes 1-63 location: 290/55/10/02
        Box #  Decimal #  Subject
        1  000.5  War Crimes, Acts of
                        000.5/1  Machinery and Policy for Handling War Criminals
            000.5/2  War Criminals location: 290/55/10/02
        2  000.5/2  Lists of War Criminals-1945
            000.5/3  United Nations Renegardes and Quislings
location: 290/55/10/03
        8  091  Spain-1945
            091  Switzerland-1945 location: 290/55/10/03
        10  091.3  Germany-German Economic Problems
            091.411  SOE/OSS Activities 1944-1945 location: 290/55/10/04
        13  123/2  Captured Gold Bullion. Contains report made by the G-5  Division on contents of various mines in the Merkers area  and a preliminary inventory of gold bullion, currency, and  miscellaneous property transferred to the Reichsbank at  Frankfurt from Merkers. (2 folders) location 290/55/10/4
        52  383.7  Displaced German Nationals
            383.7  Norwegian Displaced Persons
            383.7  Refugees and Displaced Persons (4 folders)
location: 290/55/11/03
        63  601  Property-Germany location: 290/55/11/04

Records of the Adjutant General's Section

Records of the Administrative Branch

Classified General Correspondence 1942-1944

        Arranged according to the War Department Decimal Classification System.
        Boxes 1-321 location: 290/56/16/01

        Box #  Decimal #  Subject
        5  007  Fine Arts

Classified General Correspondence 1945

        Arranged according to the War Department Decimal Classification System.
        Boxes 322-457 location: 290/56/22/05
        Box #  Decimal #  File Title or Subject
        322-324  000.5  War Crimes and Criminals location: 290/56/22/05
        326  004  Banks, Banking, Commercial Firms
                007  Looted Art location: 290/56/22/05
        337-338  123  Funds location: 290/56/22/07 
        425-426  383.7  Refugees location: 290/56/24/05
        426-428  386  Property Rights location: 290/56/24/05

Records of the Prisoner of War Interrogation Section (MIS-Y)

Records of the 3rd Army Interrogation Center

Interrogation Reports 1945

        Includes Report #38 "The Abwehr and the SD in Spain," (9 September 1945) and  Report #48 "The Deutsche Bank and Its Industrial Interests," (17 September  1945). Box 69 location: 290/56/2/04

Records of the 7th Army Interrogation Center

Interrogation Reports, Consolidated Interrogation Reports 1945, and Special German  Intelligence Interrogation Reports, 1945

        Includes report entitled "Foreign Office Personnel and Records" (13 June 1945)  and "Reich Ministry of Economics" (13 June 1945)
        Box 72 location: 290/56/2/04

Special Interrogation Reports 1945 and Miscellaneous Reports 1945

        Includes three interrogations of Herman Goering (19, 21, 24 May 1945) and one  with Walter Funk (21 May 1945). Box 73 location: 290/56/2/04

Final Interrogation Reports 1945

        Includes report entitled "Walter Funk, Reich Minister of Economics [and]  President of the Reichsbank" (6 July 1945)
        Box 74 location: 290/56/2/04

Miscellaneous Interrogation Reports 1944-1945

        Includes report entitled "Abwehr Activities in Portugal" (29 August 1945)
        Box 75 location: 290/56/2/05
               
Records of the Military Intelligence Service Field Interrogation Service

Records of the Mobile Field Interrogation Unit #1

POW Intelligence Bulletins 1944-1945

        Includes Bulletin No. 1/38 "German Banks"  (16 February 1945) and Bulletin No.  1/58  "Abwehr Activities" (22 May 1945), which includes information on  Switzerland and other countries. Box 84 location: 190/56/2/06

Records of the Department of State Special Investigative Mission

Interrogation Reports 1945-1946

        Box 104 location: 290/56/3/02

        Among the Reports:
        Name of the Interrogated  Subject of Interrogation
        Wilhelm Keppler  Foreign Economic Relations of Germany
        Eugene Klee  Nazi activities in Ecuador
        Dietrich Niebuhr  German intelligence activities in Argentina
        Edmund Thermann  German activities in Argentina
        Heinrich Borchers  Nazi activities in Chile
        Franz von Papen{Note 1}  German-Turkish relations
        Paul Schmidt  German policy in Southeastern Europe and Turkey
        Hans Thomsen  German-Scandinavian relations
        Hanna Feldtange  Activities in Sweden of August Finke, SD Chief  there and Assistant Commercial Attache of  German Legation
        Edmund Veesenmayer{Note 2}  German policy in Southwestern Europe 1939-1944
        Hermann Neubacher  German policy in Southeastern Europe 1941-1945
        Ernst W. Bohle  Activities of the Auslands{Note 3}-organizations in Latin  America
        Theodor Paeffgen  Activity of the Reichssicherheit-shauptamt
(RSHA) {Note 4} respecting Latin America
        Baron Oswald von  German-Portuguese Relations from 1934 to 1941
            Hoyningen-Huene 
        Paul Schmidt  Germany and Spain

Records of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5

Records of the Administrative Branch

History 1946-1947

        Boxes 1-2 location: 290/56/6/03

Records of the Historical Division

Records of Program Files

Records of Allied Organizations

Records of Supreme HQ, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)

Handbooks on German Organizations 1945

        Boxes 1-2 location: 290/57/20/07

Records of American Organizations

Records of US Element, Allied Control Authority

Basic Preliminary Plan 1945

        Boxes 1-4 location: 290/57/20/07

Miscellaneous Records 1945

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Charts, Directives, Summaries, Memos 1944-1945

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Records of the Office of Military Government for Germany U.S. (OMGUS)

Basic Plan for Control of Germany; Chronology of OMGUS 1945

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Reports, Summaries, Charts 1945-1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Reports, Memos, Summaries and Reviews 1945-1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Summaries, Memos 1946-1947

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Daily Intelligence Digest 1945-1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Records of US Forces, European Theater (USFET)

Records of the G-5 Section

Operations Reports 1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/22/05

History, Plans 1945-1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/22/05

Letters (Economics Branch) 1945-1946

        Box 1 location: 290/57/22/06


Footnotes

{1}Return to text German ambassador to Turkey between September 1939 and August 1944.

{2}Return to text Reich Plenipotentiary and Hitler's Deputy in Hungary towards the end of the war.

{3}Return to text Auslandsdeutsche: Germans living abroad.

{4}Return to text RSHA (reichssicherheitshauptampt) was The Reich Main Security Office formed under the leadership of Reinhard Heydrich in September 1939. Its departments included the Intelligence Division, the Gestapo (Secret State Police), the Criminal Police and the SD (Security Service). The Special Intelligence Division, established by Walter Schellenberg, was charged with procuring foreign currency.


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