WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE.

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Handbook Governing Policy and Procedure for the Military Occupation of Germany. First edition, initially classified "restricted" but subsequently stamped as "secret", detailing the Allied plans to control and de-Nazify Germany upon victory.The handbook concerns the control, disarmament, and disbandment of "para-military and police organizations", including the SS and other forces of the Nazi Party. It outlines Allied plans to ban the wearing of Nazi insignia, detain implicated personnel, and co-opt commanders of military districts to take over the administration of liberated concentration camps and preserve vital evidence. The report anticipates that the Nazi leadership will fight on even amid a hopeless situation and stresses the importance of capitalizing on any brief window between the final collapse of Hitler's regime and the emergence of an organized resistance to occupation.It also addresses the disarmament of Wehrmacht forces, the seizure of communications infrastructure, and relations with civilians, as well as intelligence work, the broader preservation of German state and army documents, and the repatriation of Allied POWs. The two maps record the proposed division of Berlin into three international zones and the boundaries of the military district.

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