Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito

Army General Staff

The Italian Ministry of Defense Archives
Army General Staff

Address

via Lepanto 5
Roma
Italy

Phone

3351888326

Email

uff.storico@smerag.esercito.difesa.it

Web

http://www.esercito.difesa.it

History

The Historic Office was instituted in 1853 as Military Office of the General Staff Royal Corps; its aim was to collect, organize and store the military documents of the Sardinian Reign that had to be used for writing the history of the wars and the campaigns.

Conditions of Access

See: http://www.esercito.difesa.it/en/History/Historic-Office-of-the-General-Staff-of-the-Army/Pagine/Rules-for-consultation.aspx

Accessibility

According to the Italian Law regulating the State Archives, all the books and documents, even those considered classified, produced over 50 years ago can be accessible for consultation. Documentation containing people’s sensitive personal data is publicly available if it was produced over 70 years ago (Legislative Decree 42/2004 article 122).

Sources

Claims Conference USHMMYad Vashem http://www.esercito.difesa.it/

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Italian Ministry of Defense Selected records of the Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito

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Archivio della Commissione d'inchiesta per i criminali di guerra italiani secondo alcuni stati esteri
- Archives of the Inquiry Commission on Italian War Criminals according to Foreign Countries
- Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito
- CI
- English
- 1940-1948
- Unavailable.
- Updated 6 years ago
A certificate delivered by the head of the Jewish community of Nice to the director of the Italian civil police during the Italian occupation can be found inside the file n.118, sub-file n.1.
Repubblica Sociale Italiana
- Italian Social Republic
- Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito
- I1
- English
- 1943-1945
- 87 boxes.
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains records created by the Ministry of Military Forces, the Army General Staff, the Supreme Military Court of Justice of the Italian Social Republic. Several files concern internment camps in Italy and in Germany, repatriation of war prisoners, dead prisoners.

Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito

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Archivio della Commissione d'inchiesta per i criminali di guerra italiani secondo alcuni stati esteri

Repubblica Sociale Italiana