Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1941 Sep (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 262pp
Scope and content
Training manual for Special Operations Executive (SOE) personnel, comprising typescript summaries of lectures on guerrilla warfare; activities during first 48 hours of arrival in the field; recruiting agents and informants; establishing cover and communications; education of civilians in passive resistance and simple sabotage; intelligence gathering; planning and methods of attack; means of German occupying forces in maintaining security, controlling civil populations and conducting searches, raids and interrogations; German counter espionage methods; organisation of the Nazi Party, German Police, German Army, SS and Luftwaffe; techniques for production of anti-German propaganda in occupied countries; codes and cyphers; secret inks; railway sabotage; fieldcraft; training exercises to be undertaken. With additional manuscript notes and glosses by Dobrski; published illustrations of Germany Army uniforms and rank insignia. 1 file, 262pp