Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943 Oct 24 - 1944 Aug 7 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
17 items
Scope and content
Official German documents, in German and Greek, 1943-1944, including captured and translated German operational orders; German propaganda and personal letters from German soldiers to family members. File includes German police poster requesting assistance identifying deceased Greek civilians; propaganda leaflets, including British message dropped on occupied Italian forces, 11 Aug 1943, and German leaflet distributed to Greek partisan forces calling for capitulation; German accounts ledger detailing commodities purchased from the local population, 24 Oct-30 Dec 1943; correspondence to the mayor of Kozani from German occupation forces relating to required foodstuffs, animals, accommodation and inspections of transport; captured and translated German message from General of the Air Force Fink, dated 21 May 1944, concerning allegiances of Greek partisan and national organisations; captured German 22 Mountain Corps report, dated 10 Aug 1944, concerning the political, military, economic and partisan situation in West Macedonia, the composition of Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) and Communist Albanian units, relations between the Allied Military Mission and the Greek partisan forces and suspected Allied order of battle; personal letters from German soldiers in Greece to relatives. 17 items.