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NOTE ON FILES
The documents selected for inclusion in this publication have been taken from the special file of the Reich Foreign Minister, from the regular files of the German Foreign Office, and from the files of the German Embassy in Moscow which were returned to Germany in 1941 shortly before the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Those from the special file of the Reich Foreign Minister are copies which were separated out from the regular Foreign Office files for the use of the personal office of the Reich Foreign Minister.
Those from the regular files of the German Foreign Office include papers from the files of the Bureau of the Reich Foreign Minister; of the State Secretary; of the Under State Secretary; of the political divisions (Pol), especially those of Pol V, dealing with the Soviet Union; of Dr. Ritter, the commercial specialist of the Foreign Office; and of Dr. Paul Schmidt, who acted at conferences as interpreter for Hitler and the Reich Foreign Minister.
The documents from the Moscow Embassy files include personal papers of the Ambassador Count von der Schulenburg, the secret political reports of the Embassy, the Embassy's general files on relations of Germany with the Soviet Union, and numerous other files, many of them containing material concerning German foreign policy sent by the Foreign Office to the Embassy for its information.
The documents of the Foreign Office and the Embassy were bound into volumes by the Germans. These volumes have been filmed and the documents published in this collection are identified in each case by the film serial number and the frame numbers on the film, which are printed in the upper left-hand corner of each document. The following list, showing the film serial number and the description of the German file, permits ready identification of the exact location in the German Foreign Office archives of the copy used for this publication.
Film Serial Numbers |
German File |
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F 1-F 20 |
Special file of the Reich Foreign Minister. |
34 |
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(frames 23886-24248) |
S t a t e Secretary: Russia-July-December 1939. |
34 |
|
(frames 23181/1-23885 and 24249-24884) |
Under State Secretary (Political Affairs): Soviet Union. |
66 |
Files of Dr. Paul Schmidt, volumes 1 and 2. |
67 |
Files of Dr. Paul Schmidt, volumes 3, 4, and 5. |
93 |
State Secretary: Hungary, volume 4. |
103 |
State Secretary: Russia, volumes 1 and 2. |
104 |
State Secretary: Russia, volumes 3 and 4. |
105 |
State Secretary: Russia, volume 5. |
127 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol 2 Nr. 1, volumes 1-3-Political relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. |
147 |
Bureau of Reich Foreign Minister: Poland Conflict. |
155 |
Pol VIII, Japan 2, volume 5-Political relations between Japan and Germany. |
165 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol g, volumes 3 and 4-Secret Political Papers. |
177 |
State Secretary: Japan, volume 3. |
270 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol g, volume 1-Secret Political Papers. |
273 |
Pol V, Russland 2 Nr. 3 Molotov-Visit of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and Foreign Commissar Molotov to Berlin in November 1940. |
276 |
Moscow Embassy: Personal files of Ambassador Count von der Schulenburg, Political, volume 1. |
292 |
Moscow Embassy: Sonderakte-Geheim-Politik-Special secret political file. |
354 |
Moscow Embassy: Sonderakte-SD Pol 2. Krieg, volume 2-Special file, Political relations between Germany and other countries. War. |
357 |
Moscow Embassy: Sonderakte-SD Pol 2. Krieg, volume 3-Special file, Political relations between Germany and other countries. War. |
380 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol 2 Nr. 3 Balk, volume 3-Political relations of the Soviet Union with the Balkan States. |
384 |
Pol V-Russland 2, volume 3-Political relations of Russia with Germany. |
388 |
Pol V-Russland 2, volume 2-Political relations of Russia with Germany. |
407 |
Under State Secretary (Political Affairs): Incidents in relations between Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and the Soviet Union. |
426 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol Mil. g, volume 1-Military affairs (secret). |
432 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol 2 Nr. 3 Balt, volume 2-Political relations of the Soviet Union with the Baltic States. |
439 |
State Secretary: Correspondence on political affairs, volume 6. |
459 |
State Secretary: Differences between Rumania and Russia. |
472 |
State Secretary: Correspondence with German diplomatic representatives abroad, volume 6. |
485 |
State Secretary: Memoranda of diplomatic visits, volume 6. |
495 |
State Secretary: Memoranda of diplomatic visits, volume 7. |
506 |
State Secretary: Memoranda of diplomatic visits, volume 8. |
644 |
Political Division: Treaties, Soviet Union, 1939-1941. |
695 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol 2 Nr. 1, volume 1-Political relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. Supplementary to serial 127. |
838 |
Under State Secretary Hencke: Personal, Moscow 1930-1940. |
1228 |
Political Division: Pol geheim, Russland, volume 7-Political affairs, Russia, Secret file. |
1337 |
Files of Dr. Megerle: Megerle 2, 8-Reports from OKW to Reich Government on Soviet Russian aggression against Germany. |
1369 |
Files of Ambassador Ritter: Moscow, volume 1. |
1379 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol 2 Nr. 1, volume 3-Political relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. Supplementary to serial 127. |
1448 |
Moscow Embassy: Pol g, volume 4-Secret Political Papers. Supplementary to serial 165. |