A file of miscellaneous reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes from 1945. Subjects covered in this file include liaison with the Americans and Soviets to coordinate the occupation of Germany, including messages exchanged between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin; the command and organisation of clandestine British activities in China; the production of propaganda to break the German will to resist; the recruitment of captured German generals to persuade the German army to surrender; the seizure of German consulates in neutral countries; investigation of German secret weapons; an aerial photographic survey of Europe; post-war research into the German economy and armed forces; the defence of London against suicide attacks; planning and operational requirements for the invasion of Rangoon; European regional intelligence department staff numbers; and a report by a foreign office official of his observations during a visit to occupied Germany.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Afghanistan Albania Argentina Austria Austria-Hungary Belgium Bulgaria Burma Canada China Czechoslovakia Denmark England Finland Formosa France Germany Greece Holland Hungary India Indochina Ireland Italy Japan Latvia Luxembourg Malaya Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Siam Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Kingdom United States of America West Germany Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/190/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Memorandum Summary
- File Reference
- FO 1093/190
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0190.002
- Keywords
- Special Operations Propaganda German Morale Prisoners Of War Public Statements British Intelligence Organisation Diplomatic Missions Secret Weapons Intelligence Gathering Photographic Reconnaissance German Army Economic Intelligence Liaison Anglo-soviet Relations Allied Strategy Suicide Attacks Intelligence Distribution Personnel Operations Planning Occupied Germany Fraternisation Effects Of Bombing Irregular Warfare Surrender Assessing Enemy Strength
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Joint Planning Staff Joint Staff Mission Political Warfare Executive Post-Hostilities Planning South-East Asia Command Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 212
- Persons Discussed
- Edward Bridges Alan Brooke Alexander Cadogan Denis Capel-Dunn Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Karl Dönitz Dwight Eisenhower Charles de Gaulle Adolf Hitler Leslie Hollis Francis Inglis Edward King-Salter Ivone Kirkpatrick Stewart Menzies Bernard Montgomery Roundell Palmer Franklin Delano Roosevelt Edmund Rushbrooke Orme Sargent John Sinclair Josef Stalin Kenneth Strong Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence International Relations Propaganda Censorship Psychological Warfare
