World War II

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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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Лот 64 | World War II
World War II

British military intelligence training documents.

WORLD WAR II – BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. 2nd Lt H.K. DOUGLAS. Intelligence Training Centre. Interrogation Course –German. Large file comprising a collection of British military intelligence training typescript documents with Lt Douglas's manuscript notes, mostly 330 x 206mm and stapled.



Extremely rare British Military Intelligence documents, forming an extensive course handbook for officers involved in interrogating German prisoners of war, and a thorough analysis of German military units, weapons and tactics.



Comprising: Paper No 76 Secret. Custody, Disposal and Interrogation of P[risoners of] W[ar]. May-June 1942. 45pp. Typescript course paper covering methods of searching and segregation of prisoners, selection of prisoners for interrogation, methods and forms of interrogation, and various appendices regarding German drill and words of command, identity discs, markings of rank and the Geneva convention. With a few pencilled notes on verso of final leaf highlighting interrogation actions.



Maj. (later Lt-Col.) T. ROBBINS. Paper No 37. Information. 15pp. Typescript course paper detailing German Order of Battle and identifications. October 1940. [With:] – The German Army. Cambridge: May 1942. 5pp. Precis of lecture, with a few pencilled notes on verso of final leaf. [With:] Paper No B/7. Secret. Order of Battle and Distribution of the German Army. January 1943. 6pp.



2 CORPS DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL, FRINTON. Precis No. 1 Growth of the German Army – 2 German Inf Div. 3 German Army - Mobile TPS (Schnelle Truppen) – 4 Airborne Troops – 5 German Tactics (1) – 6 German Tactics (2) – 7 Prisoners of War, Documents and Material - Custody and Disposal – 8 Types of German Divs. (excl. Inf., Armd and Airborne) – 13 Identifications. Secret. 10 typescript documents (6 appears in duplicate) ranging from 2pp. through to 10pp. in length. [With:] – STUDY PERIOD. The German Artillery. 24pp. typescript document with 13 photographic illustrations of German armoured fighting vehicles.



Interrogation Course - German. Paper No 1 [3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 22, 25, 26, 27, 36, 39, 40, 46, 48, 50, 56, 61, 83, 84, 86, 86A, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 108, 114, 116, 123, 125, 127, 141, 142, 145, 146, 151, 154, 155, 156, 159, 165, 200, 280, 281, 388, 393]. Many dated 1942. 56 typescript documents of various lengths, two illustrated with photographic illustrations. No 36 covers the Waffen SS and contains 1p. of extensive pencilled notes on its structure. No. 104, on armoured fighting vehicles, runs to 12pp. and illustrated with a photographic illustration of a Panzer III. No. 106 contains a 12pp. English-German vocabulary with photograph of German handwriting and 6pp. of German manuscript in Douglas's hand. [With:] – No. A25 Exercise 'Hiker', 3pp. tactical exercise with 6 photographic illustrations; and 3 other such exercises.



War Intelligence Course. German Army 2 [3, 4 - Defence, 5 - Attack]. October-November 1942. 4 typescript documents on German weapons and tactics, the last with folding photographic illustration, the first with underlining in red chinagraph pencil; with a similarly annotated 2pp. document on German Air Co-operation and with further pencil marginalia.



Matlock Memorandum No. 6 [and] 8. [With:] Pre-Matlock Course A.F.V.s II - Identification. 3 undated documents on German armoured fighting vehicles and weapons, one heavily annotated in ink.



Together with 3 other similar documents and and 9 other loose papers, as well as 2 larger chromolithographic folding tables of German orders of battle, one entitled German Normal Panzer Div, the other German Infantry Division, both marked 'Secret' in red, 490 x 310mm.

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