Item GRAHAM, MWAP 2/4 - Diary, 15 Jan – 11 Sep 1945

Manuscript diary of service as Major General Administration (MGA), 21 Army Group, including: planning meetings, Jan-Feb 1945, for the capture of the Ruhr region, Germany; concern about food and fuel shortages and consequent civilian unrest in Belgium and the Netherlands, Feb 1945; his impressions of Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee and ministers of the new Belgian government, 6 Mar 1945; the Allied advance into Germany, Mar-Apr 1945; a meeting with German commanders about the provision of food and medical supplies in the Netherlands, 30 Apr 1945; the discoveries of the concentration camps, Germany, May 1945; the German surrender, great numbers of prisoners of war, former Allied prisoners of war and German displaced civilians, May 1945; the work of the Control Commission, Germany, Jun and Aug 1945; the wedding of his daughter Sheila, 14 Jul 1945; his retirement from the Army, Sep 1945. Written in a Stationery Office printed notebook.