Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)

Identifier
irn39518
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.21
  • RG-59.029M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39518

Extent and Medium

24,565 digital images, JPEG

24 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

National Archives (Great Britain)

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the National Archives (UK) record group HW 16. Records created and inherited by the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS) and its successor the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) relating to interception of enemy communications and ensuring security of government electronic communications. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in March 2010

Scope and Content

German language decrypted messages and English-language analytical summaries of German police radio communications from the late 1930s until 1945. Contains information relating to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and on the Russian Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are verbatim German police messages for the years 1942-1945. These are contained in 27 volumes as pieces 17-43 and cover the years 1942-1945. A second, probably final, batch of German police records released in early 1998, containing pieces 63-101, is headed by hard copy Vol XIII of the Government Code and Cypher School Air and Military History which lists German police atrocities in the field in Russia.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: National Archives (Great Britain)

People

  • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Prisoners and prisons.
  • Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities Russia (Federation)
  • Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence--Great Britain.
  • War crimes--German--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
  • Enigma cipher system.
  • Police--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.

Genre

  • Document
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Copies

  • The National Archives

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from National Archives (Great Britain)

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