Collection MISC81 - GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, WORLD WAR TWO: minutes of meetings on naval affairs, 1944

Key Information

Reference code

MISC81

Title

GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, WORLD WAR TWO: minutes of meetings on naval affairs, 1944

Date(s)

  • 1947 (Creation)
  • 1944 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

one file or 0.01m3

Scope and content

The Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs (Admiralty, 1947) comprise minutes of meetings between Hitler and Admiral Karl Doenitz (Dönitz), the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, 1944. Topics discussed include the Normandy landings, anti-invasion preparations, the failed attempt by General Ludwig Beck to assassinate Hitler, 20 July 1944, and the deteriorating naval situation, Oct-Dec 1944.

System of arrangement

One file as above.

General Information

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

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

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