Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Evaluation and Dissemination Section
This handbook has been compiled with the aim of providing an intelligence background for each of the three stages in the subjugation of Germany and to present as complete a study on the German police as possible. Facts concerning the development of...
SS Obersturmbannführer Jochen Peiper was one of Germany 's most colorful military leaders of World War II with an audacious reputation. The name Peiper will always be linked to the Malmédy Massacre, the death of Belgian civilians and more than...
This study investigates the creation of a mythical fortifications system called the German “National Redoubt” and the use of ULTRA to confirm its existence. The work includes a brief background of the Redoubt and examines how the state of...
This study of German military government over Europe deals with the controls which the Nazis have established for the subjugation and exploitation of conquered countries. It emphasizes the agencies and institutions which the Nazis have been using....
Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Coalition forces discovered that the military, security, and intelligence agencies of Iraq were well suited to transition into an insurgency after conventional defensive measures had failed. This paper argues...
One of the most complex challenges facing the U.S. military today is the problem of imposing stability over the chaos that follows major combat operations. Despite the U.S. military’s predilection to distill warfare into the linear, Newtonian...
This is a study on public safety in Germany. Table of contents includes: combined command of the security and Order Police; the Order Police; the security police and the security service of the SS; auxiliary police; and special police.
Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 irrevocably changed the European geopolitical framework. After 1935, Mussolini would come increasingly under Hitler's influence. Hitler would also begin to free Germany from the restrictions imposed by the...
Understanding the professional military ethic (PME) requires first understanding the conceptual foundations upon which it stands. This foundation includes objective morality, the sociology of professions, professional ethics in general, and the...
Booklet meant to inform occupying soldiers about Germany. Discusses a variety of topics including the history of Germany, cultural differences, currency, weights and measures, and language.
On 27th May 1942 two Czech Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) displayed extraordinary courage when they assassinated Reinhardt Hedrick of the German Army. Hedrick was appointed as Administrator/Protector of Bohemia and Moravia by the German Government...
Latvian soldiers in history are still hot issue in Latvia even today. There are who think that Riflemen in 1918 were communists, others -which fought for Latvia's freedom. There are still discussions about Latvian SS Legion and Latvians, who...
Who was Reinhard Heydrich? He was probably the ablest Nazi ofthem all-a SS-General, a Police General, a Luftwaffe pilot, a linguist, a musician and a superb bureaucrat (Cowdery, Ray and Peter Vodenka. Reinhard Heydrich: Assassination!). Few know...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This postwar Intelligence bulletin purpose is to furnish intelligence on foreign military forces to the junior officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army. Subjects include weapons, strategy, and tactics. Mar, Apr, May, Jun 1946 are in this...
Accounts by General Sepp Dietrich and Colonel Joachim Peiper, Commander of the First SS Panzer Regiment, First SS Panzer Division, and their involvement in World War II, between 1939 and 1945. The account was written by them for the trial judge...
The purpose of this text is to furnish intelligence officers with a detailed picture of the German Army in all its aspects, from the organization of the High Command to the functions of small units and auxiliary services, and to furnish specific...
This handbook on the military government over Europe discusses the organization of the party of the Reich (regional, functional and foreign) and the NSDAP in occupied Europe (special party units, annexed territories, territories under civil...
Discusses general public safety plan for Germany and the organization for the Military government. Also explains the reorganization and control of the German police, special police operations, the supervision of the police in the administration of...
A revolutionary tradition did not exist in the Imperial German Army. But during the years 1918-1944 events occurred which produced such an impact on the moral fibre of the German Officer Corps that eventually a few of them participated in a...