Collection MISC48 - GERMAN AIR TROOPS' SURRENDER, TUNISIA, 1943

Key Information

Reference code

MISC48

Title

GERMAN AIR TROOPS' SURRENDER, TUNISIA, 1943

Date(s)

  • 1943 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Photocopy of manuscript letter, in German, from Maj Gen Köchy, German Air Force, Airfield Regional Command, to temporary Maj Gen John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, General Officer Commanding 46 (North Midland and West Riding) Div, surrendering German air troops in Tunisia, North Africa, 13 May 1943; photocopy of reply, in English, from Hawkesworth to Köchy, 13 May 1943. Also includes photocopy of typescript translation of Köchy's request for the acceptance of a German surrender

General Information

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre in 1993

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English
  • German

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum

Off-campus collection

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Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Nov 1999

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area