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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 - 1939 @ Coherent Digital LLC
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Weimar and Nazi Germany documents an intense time of hyperinflation, political extremism, and seizures of power. It details the aftermath of World War I, recovery following the war, the Great Depression, and Hitler’s rise, providing contemporaneous accounts, documents, reports, and correspondence of how Western democracies struggled with fascism and autocracy. It includes nearly 600,000 pages of declassified, exclusive, previously undigitized files sent to the UK Foreign Office from embassies, covert contacts, and other sources. Materials are included from FO 371, one of the most used file series at the National Archives. Every file from 1918 to 1939 categorized as “Germany” or “Rhineland” has been digitized. These files contain Foreign Office and British Embassy reports, correspondence, memoranda, communications, transcripts of speeches and public statements, newspaper cuttings, international agreements, and analyses.
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FO 3713222Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 1828-2423.1918A collection of bound files pertaining to conditions in Germany prior to, and immediatley after, the end of the First World War. Particular attention is paid to the dire economic and military situation in Germany that led to the October mutinies. Additional topics include: German budget proposals; German finances; German war aims; Negotiations at Brest Litvosk; Germany and peace terms; German political situation; Financial situation in Germany; Germany and Alsace-Lorraine; Lloyd George's speech on war aims; Prospects of a general peace; Press reactions to peace proposals and potential terms; Austrian ambassador's views on Germany's war aims; German political aims since Western Offensive began; Colyn's peace mission to England; Economic conditions in enemy countries; German commercial circles; German military's aims and intentions; Conditions in Germany, including the 'bread crisis' and food conditions, the typhus epidemic, further food difficultues (between Feb-May), mutiny of troops, a new railway on Eastern front, destruction of works at Frankfurt by recent explosion, a lack of wool and leather; Berlin revolt (Dec); A report from a Swiss mechanic on conditions on the German frontier; Conditions in Berlin; State of feeling in Germany; Relations between Germany and other allies, notably Austria where the situation is said to be 'dire' due to food shortages; Germany's schemes of conquest; An account given by a Danish captive of his time in Germany; German revolution (conditions and events prior); Disorder in Germany (reported increase); Danger of Bolsevism in Germany; Attitude of Germans to peace; Economic future of Germany; Prospect of order and an ordered government in Berlin.

Notable item: a report of 10th October from an unknown Scandinavian who states that 'the revolutionary current in the German army is now so strong that the authorities have had to take special measures to counteract it. In all regiments of doubtful loyalty special companies are formed of trustworthy old soldiers, who can be relied on to repress outbreaks among the rest of the men. Entire regiments of trustworthy men have also been informed and the Emporer has a bodyguard of 3,000 men of proved loyalty.'

A report of September 30 stating 'a German captain visiting Aarhus with his vessel says that German soldiers at Rostock mutinied the week before last. [...] Through the same channel I have confirmed of the reports that people in the North of Germany are no longer awed by the Authorities and express their opinions freely concerning the War and the ultimate result. He says that they are demanding peace and are generally so depressed that they do not care what the conditions may be.'
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FO 3713223Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 2480 (to paper 167764).1918A large volume containing correspondence and reports on the domestic (especially political) situation in Germany, dating from December 1917 to September 1918 (most dated Jan-April 1918). Much of the information on Germany appears to have come via Switzerland or the Netherlands. Volume is subdivided into folder with titles as with rest of FO 371 series. Most of these subfolders are headed "German political situation", and all in all the volume provides a fantastic, detailed insight into Germany's political and public opinion situation as it evolved over 1918. Examples include:

- report from December 1917 on a conversation with Julius Meinl who reported on the political situation in Germany. Meinl reported that "democracy was making very rapid progress in Germany" and that munitions factory workers were showing increasing independence and willingness to go on strike.
- a telegram from the Netherlands in January 1918 reporting on the summoning of the Reichstag, and the different opinions that existed about this in Germany.
- a telegram from Sir W Townley in the Hague summarising and discussing an article that had appeared in early Jan 1918 in the 'Vossische' magazine expressing dissatisfaction with current German government policy and anticipating a reshuffling of posts.
- a telegram from the Hague reporting on rumours in the press that Ludendorff was to resin and eulogising Ludendorff and Hindenburg.
- report from Switzerland on a conversation with Conrad Haussmann of the German political party Fortschrittliche Volkspartei, who claimed that democracy was becoming ever stronger in Germany and that the emperor had lost prestige and would now have to go with the tide rather than stem it.
- a January 1918 telegram discussing the activities of the Fatherland's Party, who were reported to have beaten wounded soldiers with fists.
- a January 1918 telegram from Sir W Townley in the Hague reporting on German Reichstag discussions of press censorship. In the Reichstag, Ebert remarked following the suspension of 'Vorwaerts', reporting on recent disturbances in Austria had been suspended and yet were still common knowledge on the streets of Berlin. The suspension of the left-wing Vorwaerts publication as considered an attack on the Social Democratic Party and the German labour movement.
- a lengthy report from late January 1918 titled "Memorandum on the Situation in Germany". The report was written by an observer on the ground in Germany who met with prominent politicians and journalists. The report covers topics including the Kaiser's position in political life and public opinion; the Crown Prince's position in political life; developments within the socialist movement, including progress and activities of key political parties; sources of disaffection among the German population, including the American entry into the war and an explosion in a munitions factory; economic conditions including the availability of food; a transportation crisis caused by a break-down of the railways.
- reports of strikes and unrest in Germany from February 1918, and reports on government and press reactions to the strikes.
- telegrams and reports on progress of suffrage discussions in the Reichstag.
- an English transcript sent by telegram of a speech given in the Reichstag by the German Chancellor.
- an English transcript of a speech given in the Reichstag by Scheidemann, described in the accompanying note as "so important a confession of Social Democratic faith that I venture to summarise it very fully". Scheidemann talks on the recent treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia, on Germany's social-democratic war aims, labour force strikes, the question of equal suffrage, and other topics.
- summary of an article discussing socialist attitude towards the voting of further war credits, in March 1918.
- a report from a Dr Muhlon, received in a telegram from Switzerland in April 1918, providing the assessment that Germany's collapse through economic we
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FO 3713224Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 2480 (papers 167765-end)-2665 (to paper 89988).1918Large volume including the following topics: Appointment of Prince Max of Baden as chancellor;Political Situation in Germany (multiple files); Fall of Ludendorff; Abdciation of Kaiser (mutliple files including press coverage in gemrany and overseas); Bavarian Republic including elections and politicla relations; Dr Soefts appeals to allies; Conditions in Germany multiple fles); German Bolsheviks; Multiple files on the future of the German colonies in africa africa including correspondence from anti-slavery society and a c.200 page 'Report on the Natives of West Africa and their Treatment by Germany'German; French; Italian
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FO 3713225Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 2665 (papers 92223-end)-6552.1918Themes include: Reconstruction of Germany; German colonial aims in Africa, Samoa, Togoland and the Pacific; future of German colonies; Princess Beatrice's bethrothal; Turkish troops in Cologne; Welfare and conditions in Germany; Weekly reports about conditions in GermanyGerman; French
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FO 3713226Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 6952-154436.1918A collection of bound folders concerning a range of different matters, notably German devastation of Western Europe during the War. Specific topics include: the Swiss Consul at Sydney (multiple files); German interest at Singapore; American Consul General at Zurich; German charts and sailing directions; Incidents at Berlin in 1914; Statement by Norwegian working-man in connection with Germany's guilt in starting the war; Propaganda in Germany; Kionga district of German East Africa; Letter written by Prince Max Baden to Prince Alexander von Hohenlohe; German peace propaganda in Switzerland; German Imperlialists and their Accomplices; Morale of German army; Insubordination of the German army on the Western Front (August); Intercepted letters from German minority Socialists in Reichstag; Weekly report on Germany; Blackmail of German merchants by German government; Allied air raids in Germany; German interpretation of freedom of the seas; Prince Lichnowsky's memorandum; Reports discovery of organisation for Bolschevil propaganda; Events concerning the German Social Democracy of Labour; Refusal of German visa to Monsiuer Naville; German authorities attempting to induce deserters to return to Germany; Sending of German deserters to Germany (Dec); Devastation of French territory by Germans; Reprisals against the Germans; German outrages in France (Oct); Devastation of Belgium; Evacuation of inhabitants of Northern France; Damage caused by Germans to occupied postions of France: Germany to be held responsible; Devastation by German troops.
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FO 3713227Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 155659-213882.1918Removal of frescos at Pagan by German officers, German atrocities as an obstacle to peace, reported red flag movement by British Navy, mutiny in British Navy. Future status of Hanover discussed. German diplomatic and royal visits to Hanover, Hamburg, Netherlands, Switzerland, French. Discussion of the Ex-Kaiser’s level of responsibility for the war and his potential prosecution.French;German
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FO 3713774Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 166 (papers 128207).1919File of many subfolders on issues relating to the fate of former German colonies after WW1, including fears of colonists and natives that the colonies might be returned to Germany, diplomacy between French and Britian on partition, and complaints about French and Belgian gains.
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- Future of German East Africa: correspondence with missionaries hoping that German colonies will not revert to Germany after ww1: "we… desire to recrd our opinion that it would be disastrous if the adjoining territory which was formerly known as German East Africa is returned to German rule after peace is restored" – fearing expulsion of British missionaries from German territories, and "the ordinary native in these terrotiroes dreads with whole-hearted fear such a return"
- Gold Coast and Togoland: negotiations between UK and France over partition of (formerly German) Togoland. Various small details of the deal, e.g. "If Lome (with the railway systems) is retained by Great Britain, France to be content with such rectification of the Dahomey-Togo boundary as suit her convenience". Includes lists of regions and local tribes, with (apparently) firsthand accounts from "chiefs and elders". e.g. "Our ancestors came, in olden times, from near the Kuara River…"
- German+African colonies: letter from British Chamber of Commerce of Egypt that Germany should not have its colonies returned
- Future of German East Africa: telegram transmitting concerns of Indian settlers in former German East Africa about the fear of returning to the "indignities" of German rule
- Resolution of residents of Kampala (Uganda) that "the territory hitherto known as German East Africa should not, under any circumstances be returned to Germany"
- Internationalisation of German colonies: details article y Monsieur Herve that the peace conference will not apply internationalisation to German colonies, because "it would be impossible in countries in such a backward states of civilisation as Africa or Oceania which have neither national traditions nor conscience"
- The Cameroons: letter from Royal Liver Building (Liverpool): "it is of interest to not the natives of Cameroons wanted us to annex their country before the Germans came on the scene, and we feel convinced they will be much upset if the administration of their country is placed in the hands of any other nation than the British" – pointing to British merchants' control of trade in the German Cameroon
- Administration of German colonies: telegram from Washington reporting that "press despatch from Paris statin that United States was to take an active part in administration of German colonies yesterday raised a storm among Republican members of Senate"
- Treatment of British & Allied Ps/W and the future of the German colonies: despatch from governor of South Africa demanding punishment of those responsible for "monstrous and inhuman treatment" of British and Allied PoWs; expressing opinion that German colonies should not be returned, and adding that "the territory known as German South West Africa should in future form portion of Union of South Africa"
- Cameroon: despatch from British delegation in France that UK should not appear to be encouraging anti-French sentiment among Cameroon tribes
- Letter from Swedish legation in London, with claims for redress from 2 Swedish men who had bought land in Kamerun in 1884, but were deprived of the property by the German colony without compensation
- Cameroons: letter printed in British newspaper supporting opposition to French rule in Cameroon, pointing out longstanding British influence in the area (trade ships etc back into the 19th century)
- Big game shooting in the Cameroons: letter from army captain requesting permission for a big-game hunting expedition in Cameroon (Earl Curzon "does not consider it desirable to entertain applications of this nature until the qu
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FO 3713775Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 166 (papers 133949-end).1919A collection of subfolders on issues relating to Germany's renouncement of former overseas territories as part of the post-First World War peace treaty with the Allied powers (namely Britain and France). Notable topics include: future administration of Cameroon and Togoland; territorial division of Togoland between France and Britain; individual claims to land in Cameroon and Togoland; the establishment of borders and territory between the colonial powers; mandates; East Africa; Protection of Natives of German East Africa. This file is essentially a continuation of 3774 and is not overly interesting in its treatment of these topics.

Material types: official correspondence; reports; notes; press clippings and extracts.
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FO 3713776Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 364-4232 (to paper 66942).1919
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FO 3713777Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 68676-132053).1919Collection of files within a bound volume. The files capture the post-First World War political tensions in Germany and the great uncertainty that faced the country and its leaders. Topics include: political conditions in Germany 1919 (multiple files), notably that the Scheidemann government is in trouble and 'ought to have gone months ago', and fears over potentail right wing or communist groups seizing power instead; Germany and acceptance of the Peace Terms (multiple files); Communistic spirit prevailing in Elberfeld district: development of wages in Rhineland; General policy of Germany; Situation in Germany (May 1919) including food and finance, Polish aggressions, interest in English and Allied Statesment, Rebuilding northern France, Replacing of shipping sunk, situation in Lettland, and Bolshevism; Upper Silesia; Situation in Hamburg; Proclomation of Rhenish Republic (multiple files) and French responses; The German era of Federalism; German propaganda; The present situation in central Europe; Military organisation in Germany; New constitution of the German Empire; (September 1919); Participation of German Austria in the Reichsrat.

The level of information and detail provided by materials in files is very good. This largely stems from the various reports submitted by British military advisors attached to the Military Mission sent to Berlin (1919), who sent regular reports back to the FO on the political climate on the ground in Germany. This volume will be of particular interest to students/researchers interested in the great political uncertainty and turmoil that engulfed Germany after the First World War, especially with reagrd to the acceptance of the Peace Treaty and Allied fears of Bolshevism.

Material types: correspndence; press clippings; journal extracts; reports; memoranda.
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FO 3713778Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 132184-162171).1919Topics include: British army of the Rhine; Report on conditions in enemy countries; Reports on probable Bolshevik revolution in Germany; Conditions in Germany; Activities of Bolshevik League in Germany; Desire in Germany for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; The Rhineland question.French
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FO 3713779Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 162510-178545).1919Topics include: rural Germany; domestic German politics; German Secret Service; Lower Silesia; Censorship in the German Press; Intelligence Reports; the Press; UK Army in Rhineland; German Reich constitution; TB in Germany; Trade; German emigrationGerman; French
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FO 3713780Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 178662-186338).1919Themes include the financial and economic situation in Germany, reports and speculation. Weekly updates on German Press,the food situation in Germany, The Coal Question, the effect of repartions on these factors. Coup d'etat in Berlin.French
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FO 3713781Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 186461-189167).1919Topics include: the situation in Germany (1919); Troops for the Ruhr valley; Situation at Essen; German troops in Ruhr valley; Troops in neutral zone; Situation in Upper Silesia; Retirement of German troops; Frankfurt and the coup d'etat; Allied policy towards situation in Germany; Occupation of Ruhr.French; German
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FO 3713782Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 189168-190740).1919Topics include: Ruhr District (multiple files); German and Prussian Cabinets;German minister for foreign affairs;execution of peace ;Entry oif German troopsFrench;German
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FO 3713783Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 190762-191854).1919Topics include: independent action by France with regard to Ruhr; Advance of French troops; Situation in Ruhr and Frankfurt; Refugees in British zone; German military action in Ruhr valley; Present political situation; Noske's behaviour during the Kapp Putsch; Occupation of Fankfurt; German troops in the neutral zone; Ruhr valley incident; French coup by militarist party.French;German
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FO 3713784Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 191892-195066).1919Requisitioning of German railway network by French, much consideration of anticipated political coups by communists and independent socialists, repots on the food situation in Germany, including intercepted German army reports from the Rhine. Reports on the Ruhr and troops in the neutral zone, refugees from the Ruhr.French;German
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FO 3713785Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 195150-199677).1919Topics include: Elections in Germany; socialist demonstrations in berlin; evacuation of Frankfurt; Communistic Putsch in Saxony;Politicla opinion in Gemrna press (English and french translations of Geman newspapers);German troops in the RuhrFrench;German
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FO 3713786Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 199679-203851).1919Discussion and reports on reactionary coup, repots on the food situation in Germany and the German Army in the Rhine and neutral zone. Reports on far-left parties in Germany, and anti-Semitism in Germany. Considerations of potential future revolutions or putsch from left and right. German election and subsequent political crisis.French
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FO 3713787Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 4232 (papers 203862-end)-12945.1919Topics include: German press in Cologne; Abolition of state of Siege in the Ruhr district and in Silesia; Political opinions in the German press; Political crisis; Allied notes on armaments and reparations; General Otto Roeffler; Elections in Bavaria (Jan 12); German behaviour in Belgium; Petrolium deposits in German New Guinia; Heligoland.French;German
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FO 3713788Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 14638-47621.1919Topics include: German propaganda in Basle; Kurt Eisner; Situation in Germany; Industrial unrest in Germany; Communism in Germany; Political situation in Germany; English women wishing to return to England from Germany; British-born wives of Germans; French claims on the Rhine; Neutralisation of Left bank of the Rhine; Discharged German officers.French;German
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FO 3713789Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 48870-77363.1919Topics include: German naval and military capabilities; German warships; Countess von Rautter's divorce proceedings; the Sparticists; diplomatic relations between UK and Germany resuming; Bolshevism in Germany. Italian; French; German
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FO 3713790Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 77852-119919.1919German officers departing for South America, the eligibility of German military men for international travel, the repatriation of high ranking German Officers to Germany. Appeals from Mr Bernhard Hase who requests to be architect at British Embassy Berlin. German Relations with the Holy See. The case of Robert A. Minor. The situation in Bavaria.Swedish; French; German; Spanish
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FO 3713791Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 120154 (to paper 179394).1919
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FO 3713792Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 120154 (papers 179496-198619).1919
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FO 3713793Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 120154 (papers 198661-end)-121876.1919
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FO 3713794Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 77538 / Code W13238 File 123414-141194.1919Topics include: German premier shot; German P.O.Ws released; German colonies; control of Pacific Islands; control of Rhineland; Reports concerning George Gotthie Metzler; International economics and tradeFrench; German
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FO 3713795Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 146282-157428.1919Topics include: Bolshevik Propaganda in England; German Propganda; Reparations (case of Frodair Steel company Multiple files); Restitution of British Property in Germany; Liuidation of British property in Germany; Private Property of Germans in Cameroon; South West African protectorate; Liutenant Vogel; Lots of files relating to British trade in Germany's former African propertiesFrench;German
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FO 3713796Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 160281-179267.1919Topics include: Paris Peace Treaty; Reparations; German's colonies; German diplomatic appointments; German missionaries in German colonies; Trade and legal matters related to sales of herrings; Detention of Lieutenant Reucker and other German officers; British goods in GermanyFrench; German;
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FO 3713797Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 179333-182789.1919Topics include: sale of scrap aircraft in Germany; administration to London Chamber of Commerce; Agreements between East Africa governments and Germany; reparations; UK industries fair; econmoics and trade; returns of remains of Belgians buried in Germany; US lending European countries moneyFrench; German; Italian
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FO 3713798Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 182853-183763.1919German food imports, Wheat commission’s reports on food requirements. Economic situation in Germany. Letters from German citizens with disputes regarding retrieval of seized property, payments to widows. Tariffs and export charges. Grievances regarding imports and exports for Germany.
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FO 3713799Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 183896-188027.1919Themes inclue: assaults on Allied Officers; Hotel Adlon scandal; Germany enter League of Nations; Articles of Paris Peace Treaty; Difficulties experienced by British subjects in removing property stored by them in Germany; debts between Allieds and DanzigFrench; Italian; German
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FO 3713800Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 188226-191744.1919Topics include: resumption of trade between Germany and Australia; Shipment of horses between Germany and Australia; Payment of debts by British debtors to Germans; International Jewis Clique; Landlords and Warehousemen's Liens; Fish sold in Germany; Assault on persons.French;German
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FO 3713801Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 192042-194631.1919Mostly correspondence and discussion regarding the imposed regulations on imports and exports to Germany. Letters from civilians requesting information, one letter from a German man offering to sell a formula for invisible ink for secret correspondence. Legal inquiries.french;german
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FO 3713802Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 194887-202747.1919Topics: German cttee for the resumption of shipping; Compenasation and Reparation claims (Multiple files); The Kiel Canal;Detention of Lietutenants Gtanger, Koelle & Wendtlands in France;Distribution of soup for poor children in Cologne (multiple files); Murder of Lieutenant commander Paasche and Press commentsSpanish;German
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FO 3713803Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 / Code W18 File 202787-206851; Hayti [Haiti] and San Domingo. Code 20 Complete.1919Mostly contains letters from businesses and citizens requesting assistance in reclamation of property seized or otherwise delayed during the war. Also documents and correspondence regarding the revolt in Haiti, Germans living in Haiti, change to new paper money.arabic
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FO 3714336Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 105194.1919File titles include:

Provisioning of the Armies of Occupation from Gemran Sources
Retention of Cologne in British zone of Occupation
Food conditions in Germany
Rhineland High Commission
Sir Harold Stuart's Appointment to the Rhineland Commission
Question of his salary
Visits of missions to German factories in the occupied territories
Motor cars for Sir Harold Stuart
Application of Capt. BG Denne for an appointment on the IARH Commission
Delay in receiving official correspondence
Purchase of motor-cars from Amreican Army for Sir Harold Stuart
Pooling of information collected by Allied Mssions in Germany
Visits of Industrial Missions to Factories in Occupied Germany
Industrial information collected by Allies through their Economic Sections and missions in Occupied Germany
Appointment of Officers as Economic Representatives at Aix-la-Chapelle and other German towns
Visits to Factories in Occupied Territory
Appointment of British Officers to Economic Sections in the Occupied territories
Disposal of Officers attached to the Economic Sections of the Armies of the Rhine
Officers acting as British Economic Representatives
Coming into force of Rhineland agreement
Military Officers attached to the Economic Sections of the Armies of Occupation
Inspection of German Factories
Appointment of Vice Consuls at Majuece and Aix-la-Chapelle
Report on the investigations of the Chemical Mission which inspected factories in January
Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission
Temporary Appointment of certain military officers to Rhineland High Commission
Rhineland High Commission
Appointment of Rm. Shrotiss as Financial Advisor to the Britihis Rhineland Commission
Economic considtios banking and political questions
Appointment to rhineland high commission
Transference to French Military of the Cologne area
Appointmet of Von Starck as German Commissioner to Rhineland
Mr. CP Tallboy (License Officer is IA Rinland Comm.
Payment of German Import duties in Gold
Courier service to Coblenz
Appointment of Geman commission to Rhineland territory
Rhineland Convention
Question of pooling industrial information collected by the Armies of Occupation
Tels. For Coblenz
Rhineland Agreement
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FO 3714337Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 124943 (to paper 158499).1919
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FO 3714338Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 124943 (papers 158546-177677).1919Topics: Occupation of The Rhineland, including British personell in Inter-allied Rhineland Commission (multiple files) including discussion of salary allowances and appointments; expenses; staffing of the British department
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FO 3714339Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 124943 (papers 177795-187654).1919
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FO 3714340Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 124943 (papers 187687-end).1919Topics include: Personnel in British departments and Cologne Commission; reparations; economics and trade; British government administration including expenses
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FO 3714341Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 125849-125881.1919Themes include: Export of German dyes (lots on this); the local situation in occupied territories; trade of Saar coal to the occupied territories; international relations; coal situation in occupied territories of GermanyFrench
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FO 3714342Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 125882-126743.1919Topics include: Importation of French wines;Import duties; Labour disputes; Majority of files made up of minutes and draft proposals/regulations for the inter-allied Rheinland commission
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FO 3714343Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 126745 (to paper 176920).1919Topics include: import duties on goods entering Occupied Germany; Anglo-German clearing house for goods in Berlin; economics and trade; Customs duties; German customs control on the the FrontierFrench
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FO 3714344Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 126745 (papers 177273-end)-129308.1919Topics include: German transport duties; Payment of customs duties; Distribution of bricks, lime and cement; Prohibition on the import of potatoes from Holland; Food situation in Germany.French
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FO 3714345Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 129309-137954.1919Topics include: Provisioning of the armies of occupation from German sources; Inter Allied Rhineland High Commission meetings; German custom hosts on the frontier occupied territories; Musical composition for the use of the Blind; German import duties on goods from allied countries to occupied terriotry; Food + raw materials to Germany; Administration of British zone of the Occupied territories. French
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FO 3714346Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 140610-146235.1919Topics include: ratification of the Peace treaty (multiple files); administration of the Rhineland; German protest against the ordinance of the Rhineland; Application of German law; Germany's economic strength; Legal time in occupied territory; French
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FO 3714347Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 148550-161389.1919Topics include: financial situation in Germany; reparations; agriculture; food situation in Germany; international relations; economy; German law; administration of German republic
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FO 3714348Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 164860-173804.1919Topics include: Political opinion in the German press; weekly reports on the German press (bulk of files); Political, economic and food reports; Labour situation in occupied territory.
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FO 3714349Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 175439-181544 (to paper 186534).1919
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FO 3714350Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 181544 (papers 186909-192001).1919
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FO 3714351Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Rhineland. Code 1150 Rh File 181544 (papers 192285-end)-196942.1919
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FO 3714725Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 2 - 8 (to paper 242)1920File on various issues relating to immediate post-war German international relations. Around half the file discusses Bavarian separatism, and specifically how French plans to appoint a minister at Munich may be seen to encourage it. The second half of the file mostly covers economic/financial issues, especially legal issues relating to non-German firms with debts/interests in Germany, and a few subfolders on reparations. Topics covered include:
- French government's intention to appoint a Minister at Munich: report on conversation with French ambassador on plan to appoint consul-general in Munich; report notes that it is "doubtful whether French action would be agreeable to the German Government", but that "even if latter refused, French Government would probably make the appointment"
- telegram reporting that the Reichstag Commission of Foreign Affairs has elected Stresemann as its chairman
- Foreign diplomatic Representation in Bavaria: discussion of possibility of accrediting diplomatic representative in Munich, but argues that the UK government should inform the German government that no such move was planned, in light of German fears over Bavarian moves towards independence in foreign policy (notes that the Bavarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs was to be shut down by the central government). Suggests that UK policy should not encourage "disruptive tendencies": "separatism means reaction and civil war"; "we should be ill advised to take a step which could only be interpreted as intended to push the reactionary Bavarian Govt. into an open quarrel with the Central Govt."
- Discussion of French appointment at Munich in light of German imperial constitution reserving foreign affairs for the central government
- Notes on postponement of dissolution of Bavarian foreign office – a possible sign of growing separatism in southern Germany? Reports conversations with members of the Bayrische Volkspartei that this was to be the "thin end of the wedge" in the disregarding of the german constitution in Bavaria.
- Further subfolders discussing French minister at Munich: Bavarian press reports on the possible appointment. Report on French motives in making the appointment and its impact: "it would have tickled the vanity of the man in the street, and have reminded him of the good old days, to see the French Minister calling in state on the Head of the Bavarian State"
- German diplomatic appointments: reports German ambassadors appointed to various embassies including Rome, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Christiania, Paris, Riga
- translation of German newspaper "Bayrische Kurier" discussing the possibility of British diplomatic appointment to Munich
- Discussion of German plan to appoint a "minister" to Munich as well (despite being part of Germany) to act a liaison with the central government
- Request from holders of Brazilian securities in Deutsche Bank that restrictive measures against Germany not apply to Brazilian interests
- Position of British firms sued in neutral countries for payment of pre-war debts due to Germans: recommends that the UK govt request that the German gvt restrain German nationals from initial legal proceedings in contravention of Article 296 of the peace treaty
- a number of folders on legal proceedings against Bahia branch of London and Brazilian Bank Ltd. relating to exchanges of money that were held up due to the outbreak of war
- Costs of maintenance of the German dead in France, UK, Belgium, with correspondence from the Imperial War Graves Commission on the possibility of adding an indemnity for Germany's upkeep of German war graves to the reparations owed
- A single folder on discussion of delivery of German reparations under Versailles up to mid-1920, with table of deliveries and appropriation made, including mines, merchant ships, livestock, machines, rolling stock
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FO 3714726Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 8 (papers 704 - 4983)1920
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FO 3714727Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 8 (papers 5092 - 6864)1920
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FO 3714728Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 8 (papers 6916 - 9350)1920
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FO 3714729Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 8 (papers 9361 - 13225)1920
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FO 3714730Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 8 (papers 13257 - end)1920Topics include: reparations; International Relations; Brussels ConferenceFrench;
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FO 3714731Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 13 (papers 9610)1920Subfolder titles and topics:

- German War Criminals - Senior Lieutenant Neumann I.N.
- Trial of German War Criminals (several subfolders with this title)
- German War Criminals (several subfolders with this title or just 'War Criminals')
- Germans on Black List
- Immunity promised to ex-Kaiser in event of War with Holland
- Enginier Jakob Gallus (accused of ill-treatment of prisoners of war)
- Fritz Arning (accused of cruelty to English and French prisoners)
- Kaptian Leutnant Rücker (several folders titled with his name, or Rücker and Gallus together)
- Communications received from German delegation in regard to war criminals
- ex-Kaiser (regarding efforts to bring him to trial)
- Detention of German officers Rücker and Gallus
- Trial of Helmut Patzig
- Evidence for proceedings against Lieut. Patzig
- Surrender of war criminals for trial
- Evidence in case of Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Werner (several subfolders with similar title)
- Release of Commander Rucker and Lieut. Gallus (several subfolders with this title)
- Information regarding German war criminals to be tried at Leipzig
- Detention of Commander Rucker and engineer Gallus
- Sinking of Ss "Torrington" and other ships by German submarine U.55.
- Prosecution and institution of proceedings in the cases submitted to teh judgment of the court of Leipzig
- Petition in regard to War Criminals and the Leipzig trial
- Execution of Spa agreement respecting war criminals		German
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FO 3714732Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 13 (papers 9654 - 13404)1920A collection of subfolders concerning the trial and punishment of various former German military personnel for war crimes, including the sinking of a civilian Hospital Ship during the war. Specific topics include: war criminals; trials of war criminals; charge against Commander Patzig of having sunk the Hospital Ship "Llandovery Castle"; German officers charged with War Crimes; Delay on part of German Government in bringing prisoners before Leipzig Tribunal; Trial of Commander Patzig; trial of German war criminals; Whereabouts of former German Submarine Commander Helmuth Patzig; Meeting of Inter-Allied Committee dealing with German War Criminals; Punishment of War criminals.French; German
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FO 3714733Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 13 (papers 13786 - end) - 23 (to paper 3228)1920A collection of subfolders concerning the trial and punishment of individuals. Specific topics include: proceedings against German War criminals in High Court; Trial at Leipzig of persons accused of offences against Laws of War; Minutes of evidence in connection with the loss of the S.S. "Lusitania"; Delay in delivery by French Government of draft letter settled at recent conference on War Criminals, to German delegation; Report on coal situation in Occupied Territory dated June 15th, 1920; Coal situation in Occupied Territory.
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FO 3714734Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 23 (papers 4404 - end) - 27 (to paper 1742)1920Topics include: coal siutation in occupied territory; Rhienpreussen collieries; British property subject to compulsory administration or liquidation;
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FO 3714735Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 27 (papers 2557 - end)1920Topics include: British property subject to compulsory administration or liquidation; Furniture and Personal effects of British subject resident in Germany at outbreak of war and who was interned; Anglo-German agreement for carrying out Article 297 of Treaty of Versailles.
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FO 3714736Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 29 - 36 (to paper 1543)1920Topics include: residence of former enemy subjects in ex-German Colonies in Africa; Deportation of Germans from East Africa; repatriation of ex-enemy subjects from Tanganyika Territory; Final Report of Slesvig Commission
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FO 3714737Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 36 (papers 1544 - end)1920Most of this volume is about the Slesvig Plebiscite; debts to the Slesvig Commission; Military Occupation of Slesvig Plebiscite region; French
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FO 3714738Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 37 - 41 (to paper 1625)1920Topics include multiple files on insurance; The Spa conference and specicially German policy; Silesian coal; Discussions of reparationsFrench
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FO 3714739Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 41 (papers 1627 - end) - 45 (to paper 643)1920The undertakings of the Spa conference, political and economic situation in Germany, intelligence reports on German military. Elections of a New President to the Reichstag. German; French
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FO 3714740Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 45 (papers 734 - 6422)1920Topics include: German politics including situation in Saxony and Bavaria; German-Bolshevist alliance; German reactions to Spa conference; several files relating to developments in the Reichstag; the Bolshevik movement; growth of national movement in Germany
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FO 3714741Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 45 (papers 6470 - 11057)1920Topics include: political situation in Germany; weekly political reports; statement by Herr Stesemann before central committee of German People's Party; incidents and events in labour and industrial circles in Frankfurt
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FO 3714742Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 45 (papers 11167 - end) - 491920Topics include: weekly report on Frankfurt press; interview with Herr Stinnes and Herr Karl Fehrmann; activities of the "Technische Nothilfe"; resignation of the Senate at Bremen; proposal for new elections in Munich; Inter-Allied Control Commission reports; Obstructive attitude of German Officials to British Trade in GermanyFrench; German
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FO 3714743Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 50 - 58 (to paper 2408)1920Topics include: claim of British Banks in Cologne; German industrial revival; adjustment of enemy debts; economics and trade; reparations; India Order in Council; total in marks of British-held unpaid coupons on German Governmnet and municipal bonds received; German
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FO 3714744Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 58 (papers 2410 - 6148)1920Topics include: procedure of Article 297 of Treaty; Claim against German nationals by British firms having partners of Mixed nationality; German securities; Egyptian administration; Economic clauses of the Treaty; Italian laws refulating trading with the enemy.French;German
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FO 3714745Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 58 (papers 64 - 9041)1920Topics include: clearing house for settlement of pre-war debts; Trading with Enemy legislation; The German property ordinance 1920 of the territory of Papua; Establishment of clearing office in Panama; United States trading with enemy legislation; War claims of British firms and British native subjects in the Cameroons; Establishment of total damages and compensation to be paid by Germany.French;German
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FO 3714746Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 58 (papers 9208 - 11062)1920Topics include: position of non-enemy share holders in liquidated German companies; Debts owing to British Nationals by Residents in Saar Basin; Article 296 Treaty of Versailles; Seizure of property of German nationals; German pre-war debts in Roumania; Article 297 of Treaty of Versailles.French;German
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FO 3714747Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 58 (papers 11148 - end)1920Topics include: Majoprity of the file relates german nationals property and its potential liquidation; pre-war German debts to Romania;German clearing office (multiple files); Deliver of English food supplies to germany; Gemand war debtsFrench;German;Italian
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FO 3714748Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 59 (to paper 3749)1920Documents pertaining to scrap resulting from destruction of German War Material. Sale of this material, or destruction of it. Export of German material to Norway. Sale of undestroyed German material. Destruction of guns and munitions.French;German
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FO 3714749Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 59 (papers 3795 - 6162)1920Topics include export of war material (multiple files) and a large amount of files on Disarmement including Geman destruction of 6 military zeppelins.French
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FO 3714750Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 59 (papers 6188 - 8526)1920This volume is dedicated to German disarmament and the sale of Germna war materials including negotiations with the Latvian government and attempts by Sinn Fein to purchase German arms.French;German
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FO 3714751Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 59 (papers 8693 - 11004)1920Volume of files on German diasrmament and the import/export of war materials; several files discussing the destruction of disesel enginge including the Bavarian government's protest against this, several files discussing the sale of wat material to Latvia.
French;German;Spanish;Italian
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FO 3714752Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 59 (papers 11077 - 14146)1920Topics include: Sale of war material to Soviet Russia; Destruction of industrial material; Disposal of surplus German materials; Attitude of Germany towards Aeronautical Clauses of Treaty; Destruction of important optical instruments of education value; German war material interned in Holland; Protest against destruction of diesal engines; Importataion of war material from Germany; Traffic in German war material.French
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FO 3714753Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 58 (papers 14378 - end) - 63 (to paper 4906)1920Topics include: dismantlement of foretresses within 50km of Rhine; sale of German war material outside Germany; Germany's coastal fortifications; German naval restrictions; German property left at Bushire; treatment of British firms in French sphere in Togoland; liquidation of centrain German properties; German; French
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FO 3714754Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 63 (papers 4908 - end) - 72 (to paper 6018)1920Topics include: claims of Allied and neutral creditors on German property in Japan; Liquidation and sequestrated property; Sale of ex-enemy property in Togoland and Cameroons; British interests in properties; The African and Eastern Trade Corporations premises at Anecho, Togoland; Pre-war debts due from German firms in Cameroons; Rights of British subjects in Togoland and Cameroons under French administration; Allenstein Plebiscite Commission.French
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FO 3714755Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 72 (papers 6192 - end) - 981920Topics include: Allenstein commission (multiple files); German elections including Bavaria and the free states (multiple files); Dopertation of Germans in Samoa; German cable systemGerman
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FO 3714756Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 Files 99 - 113 (to paper 3344)1920A collection of files concerning reposession of items, German business, and German disarmament of both the armed forces, civilian population, and the police. Specific examples include: requests for Madam Boeninger and Madam Westerborg for return of shares and bonds deposited in London; Securities property of Madame Julius Boeninger, Netherlands subject, deposited in London at outbreak of war; Statement by German Foreign Office respecting Dunlop Rubber Company; Dunlop Rubber company; Prohibition of use of British owned Trade Marks and copyrights by German manufacturers; Use of the Trade Mark of Messrs. Meccano Limited by Gebr. Maerklin of Goeppingen; Claim against the Hamberg-Kamerun Handels Gesellschaft by Messrs. Schluter and Company; Armed Forces of Germany and Work of Effectives Sub Commission of Inter-Allied Commission of Control; German request for further maintenance of Troops in Neutral Zone; Strength of German Police force in Occupied Area; Reichswehr Troops allowed in Neutral zone; Strength of German army and police force; Reduction of German army; Reduction of Germany Army and Execution of Peace Treaty Clauses respecting - disarmament; Refusal of Baravrian Government to disarm Einwohnerwehr and Sicherheitswehr; German forces in neutral zone; Disarmament of Germany; Refusal of Governments of Bavaria, Wurtemburg to disband the Einwohnerwehr; Bavairan government's declaration of its intention to refuse to disband the Einwohnerwehr; Armed forces of Germany and Work of Effectives Sub-comission of Inter-Allied Commission of Control; Violations or Non-Executions by Germany of Treaty of Versailles; Allied concessions to Germany in regard to Disarmament; Unauthorised recruiting in Germany; Recruiting for Bolshevik Armies in Unoccupied Germany; Reorganisation of the Reichswehr; Disarmament of the Civil population; Emergency Law for Abolition of conscription and for the regulation of the length of military service.German;French
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FO 3714757Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 113 (pap - 11056)1920Folder contains documents pertaining to the law for the disarmament of Civil Population. Also changing laws on conscription to the military, the establishment of a police force for Germany.German;French
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FO 3714758Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966Germany. Code 18 File 113 (papers 11064 - 14784)1920Topics include: Armaments; execution of military articles of the Treaty oif Versailles; German disarmament; Majority of files are devoted to Eihnwohnerwehr and the question of disarmement.German;French