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Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister, Messages and Correspondence

5 Mar 1943

A file of signals intelligence reports, messages, and correspondence issued by the Government Code and Cypher School and sent by the head ('C') of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This file includes the following reports on North Africa: a 5th Panzer Army return of March 3 on the losses and the booty taken during a northern Tunisia attack; and a report for March 3, stating that Allied resistance is intensifying; a 5th Panzer Army report for March 1 and its combat plans for March 2; a 1st Italian Army report for March 3, noting that Allied reinforcements are moving into the front line area; that Lieutenant General Cramer, the new Ground Officer Commanding (GOC) the German Africa Corps and previously commander of a corps on the Kharkov Front, was asked by German High Command on March 3 to send a comprehensive report to Army Group South on the conditions prevailing during the German withdrawal from Kharkov as Hitler had heard that there was chaos when the unified command and control totally failed there during the evacuation; on the Russian Front: aircraft reconnaissance reports of Soviet movements in the vicinity of the 2nd and 3rd Panzer Armies, on March 3; and of further Soviet advances.
second world war military operations casualties military intelligence adolf hitler incompetence eastern front military organisation government code and cypher school german army military strength italian army invasion of french north africa red army military situation reports military commanders comando supremo allied powers
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Document Reference
HW1 /1425/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /1425
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.1425.002
Keywords
German Army Military Operations Invasion Of French North Africa Casualties Military Strength Allied Powers Military Situation Reports Italian Army Military Organisation Eastern Front Red Army Military Commanders Incompetence
Languages
English
Organizations
Comando Supremo Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
27
Persons Discussed
Adolf Hitler
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence