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Filing Manual Alphabetical Reference Subject Files, 1947-1949 Filing Manual Alphabetical Reference Subject Files, 1947-1949 Department of Defense. European Command. Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.). Office of the Director of Intelligence. Analysis and Research Branch. List of Subject Classification Numbers, Office of the Director of Intelligence (ODI), OMGUS. Note: A letter subscript indicates that the folder pertains to one of the following geographical areas: a- U.S. Zone d- French Zone b- British Zone e- Berlin c- Soviet Zone f- Plural Zone (i.e., Bizone) 14 Policy and General Activity of Occupying Powers 15 German Public Opinion, Reaction 20c Russian Zone 21 Public Safety 22 Relations with Occupying Troops 23 Resistance and Subversive Activity 25 Demilitarization Material 26 Concentration Camps, Political Prisons, Arrests 27 French File-Foreign Legion 38 Saar 39 Brewster Morris File 40 Economic Activity 40.1 Economic Plans and Policies of Occupying Powers 40.2 British-American Zone Merger 40.3 The Ruhr 40.4 Foreign Penetration of the German Economy 40.5 Soviet Corporations 40.6 Trizonal Merger 40.7 Economic Commissions and Organizations 41 Food and Agriculture 41.1 Food Ration Level 41.2 Agricultural Production 41.3 Food Collection, Delivery Enforcement 41.4 Food Export-Import, Food Requisitioning 41.5 Land Reform 42 Industry 42.1 Armamant and Other Prohibited Industries, Scientific Research 42.2 Dismantlings, Reparations 42.20 Dismantlings 42.22 Restitutions 42.3 Industrial Organizations, Cartels, Combines, Socialization of Industry 42.4 Raw Materials, Spare Parts Supply 42.5 Production Plans, Allocations, Distributions 42.6 Fuels, Power Plants 42.63 Reichsbahn Statistics 42.7 Metals, Machinery, Optics 42.8 Chemicals 42.9 Textiles and Consumer Goods, Building Industry 43 Trade and Commerce 43.1 Internal Trade, Level, Obstructions 43.2 Trade Organizations, Associations, etc. 43.3 Price Controls, Violations, Black Market 43.4 Interzonal Trade, Level, Obstructions 43.5 International Trade, Level, Obstructions 43.6 Trade Agreements 43.7 Export-Import Credits, Foreign Buyers 43.8 Pricing, Foreign Exchange Rates 43.9 Patents and Patent Regulations 44 Finance 44.1 Public Finance, Budgets 44.2 Taxations 44.3 Money, Monetary Reform 44.4 Loans, Foreign Credits 44.5 Occupation Costs 44.6 Reparations Financing 44.7 Financial Institutions, Banks, Insurance Companies 45 Manpower, Labor 45.1 Census, Population Statistics 45.2 Labor Supply, Skilled Workers 45.3 Social Insurance 45.4 Trade Unions and Labor Laws 45.5 Wages and Labor Standards 45.6 Deportation of Labor and Scientists 46 Communication and Transportation 46.1 Post, Telegraph, Telephone 46.2 Railways 46.3 Highways 46.4 Ports and Shipping, Inland Waterways 60 Civil Administration 61 German Civil Government 61.2 Bizonal Charter-Economic Council 62 Constitutions and Laws 63 Courts 64 Prisons 65 Law Enforcement Agencies 66 Denazification 66.1 Civil Internment Camps 67 Laenderrat 68 Property Control 69 Boundaries 69.1 Miscellaneous 80 Laender and Provinces 80.1 Bavaria 80.2 Wuerttemberg-Baden 80.3 Greater Hesse 80.5 Brandenburg 80.6 Province Saxony-Anhalt 80.7 Thuringia 80.8 Lower Saxony 80.9 Lower Rhine-Westphalia 80.10 Schleswig-Holstein 80.11 Bremen 80.12 Hamburg 80.14 Baden 80.15 Rhein-Pfalz 80.16 Berlin 90 Foreign Countries 91 Russia - General 92 Poland 93 Czechoslovakia 94 Hungary 95 Yugoslavia 96 Austria 97 Italy 98 France .
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