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Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 78. Records of the German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht—• OKW) Part V National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1981 This finding aid has been prepared by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody. The microfilm described in this guide may be consulted at the National Archives, where it is identified as Microfilm Publication T 77. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should write to the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives (GSA), Washington, DC 20408. Some of the papers reproduced on the microfilm referred to in this and other guides of the same series may have been of private origin. The fact of their seizure is not believed to divest their original owners of any literary property rights in them. Anyone, therefore, who publishes them in whole or in part without permission of their authors may be held liable for infringement of such literary property rights. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-9982 GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 78. Records of the German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht—OKW) Part V National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1981 INTRODUCTION The Guides tp_ German Records Microfilmed at_ Alexandria, Va., Armed Forces High Command (Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht). constitute a~~series of finding aids to the National Archives Keitel was responsible for the smooth functioning of the high and Records Service (NARS) microfilms of seized records of command and the execution of Hitler's orders and decisions, but German central, regional, and local government agencies and he had comparatively little to do with major decisions of policy. of military commands and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, When the Armed Forces High Command (OKW) was formed in 1938, the its component formations, affiliated associations, and super- operational functions were immediately separated from the ministerial vised organizations. functions. In June 1938, the OKW was divided into four groups: the Operations Staff Group (Amtsgruppe Fuehrungsstab--WFA), the The guide series was initiated by the microfilming project of Foreign and Counterintelligence Group (A0Ausl/Abw), the the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Military Economics Group (Wehrwirtschaftsstab--WStb), and Historical Association (AHA) in cooperation with NARS and the the General Armed Forces Group (Allgemeines Wehrmachtsamt--AWA). Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA partici- In Aug 1939, the operations staff was expanded to wartime footing: pation in July 1963, NARS assumed sole responsibility for the Amtsgruppe Fuehrungsstab became Wehrmachtfuehrungsamt, and in reproduction of records and the preparation of guides. Oct 1940 it became Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab. Under the OKW, the functions of a joint general staff were performed by the Armed The records described in Guide No. 78, Part V of Guides tp_ Forces Operations Staff (Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab—WFSt); its chief, Records of German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der General Alfred Jodl, was Hitler's principal adviser on strategy Wehrmacht/OKW), German Armed Forces Operations Staff (Wehr- and planning. Under Jodl, the WFSt was divided into sections machtfuehrungsstab--WFSt), are records of that organization and entrusted with particular functions; its most important section its predecessor organizations: the Reichswehrministerium, the was the National Defense Branch (Abt. Landesverteidigung--Abt. L), Reichskriegsministerium, the Allgemeines Wehrmachtsamt, and the which was established in 1933 from the former Wehrmachts-Abt. Amtsgruppe Wehrwirtschaftsstab (later called Wehrwirtschaftsamt). (in existence since 1926 under the Reich Defense Ministry) <> The Also included are subordinate branches of the WFSt: the Wehr- National Defense Branch was a joint staff for strategic and machtpropaganda-Abt., Chef des Transportwesens, Amtsgruppe Aus- operational planning under the command of Jodl's deputy Gen. land, Waffenstillstandskommission, and Abt. Wehrmachtkriegsge- Walter Warlimont. It (Abt. Landesverteidigung—Abt. L) was schichte. These records are reproduced on 32 rolls of Microfilm subordinate to the Operations Staff Group for the period from Publication T77, rolls 1343, 1412-1433, 1455, 1499, 1505-1506, 1939 through 1941, when it was redesignated Stellv.Chef d. WFSt0 1510-1513, and 1574. Parts I-IV are Guides 7, and 17-19. as of 1 Jan 1942. Records of the German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando The records of the Reichswwehrministerium and Reichskriegs- der Wehrmacht/OKW), 1914-45. The German Armed Forces High ministerium consist of correspondence, orders, reports, studies, Command was created by Fuehrer decree of 4 Feb 1938 to replace and other papers dealing with German-French relations; the the Reich War Ministry (Reichskriegsministerium) and its political and economic situation in Germany and its bordering predecessor office the Reich Ministry of Defense (Reichswehr- countries; naval fleet training schedules and visits abroad of ministerium). Hitler became the Supreme Commander of the Armed German naval units; Federal aid to German nationals as a result Forces (Oberster Befehlshaber der IVehrmacht), and his deputy of border changes made after World War I; Polish nationalists in was General (later Field Marshal) Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Germany; and various other matters. 111 The records of the Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (WFSt) and its subor- The provenance to which each record item is attributed is that dijnate branches described in this finding aid consist of photo- of the organization or office that created or filed it. A large stats of war journal drafts, directives, orders, studies, corre- proportion of the record items are photostats; some appear out spondence, mobilization and operations plans, communiques, regu- of sequence because they were classified or temporarily unavail- lations, decision papers and other issuances by Hitler, Keitei, able at the time of filming but were microfilmed and included Jpdl (including his diaries), and other members of the German later. This also accounts for the occasional break in continuity Armed Forces High Command. These records deal with a great of roll numbers in this guide. The computer-printed register of variety of subjects, such as planning and preparation, organiza- record items is in the sequence of microfilm roll numbers, which tion, chain of command, allocation of materiel and supplies, are the computer control numbers; for numerical sequence of all armament, transportation, fuel production, coordination with record items described in this guide, consult the list of micro- civil ministries and departments, and manpower,, The records film publication roll numbers in the front part of the guide and pertain to national defense in general, and to conduct of the the OKW number listing in the Index. war in various theaters of operations in particular. They cover major operations, such as Operation Weiss (Poland), Seeloewe The INDEX, including instructions for its use, begins on page 107. (Great Britain), Barbarossa (Soviet Union), Merkur (Island of The index is primarily an archival index to this guide and only Crete), Marita (Greece and Yugoslavia), and Margarethe (Hungary indirectly to the microfilmed documents it describes. Any attempt and Rumania); operations in North Africa and the Allied invasion to index the massive volume of these documents in the comprehen- of Normandy; operations of the air force and navy, including sive manner of a book index would encumber or bloat the index and U-Boat warfare; operations against partisan and resistance make it difficult to use. This index was computer formatted and movements; liaison between German and Italian or Rumanian Forces; printed from simultaneous input of keywords of the individual treatment of Hungarian Forces after Hungary's break with the record item descriptions and was supplemented with references, Axis Powers; and Finnish-German-Soviet relations. The records cross-references, and explanatory subheadings. The full index also cover violations of international law, events of the last was then reproduced from the master copies by photographic offset days of the war, capitulation and surrender negotiations of the printing. German Armed Forces, defense of Berlin, Hitler's death, and Admiral Doenitz1 succession. The CONTENTS column on the pages containing records descriptions provides (a) the name of the organization, military branch, or A data sheet describing each record item was microfilmed imme- office that originated the document, (b) the German title ap- diately preceding the document it describes. The data sheets pearing on the folder cover, and (c) a general description of for all documents on one roll of film were again filmed as a the document's content. The inclusive dates of the document or finding aid at the beginning of that roll. The information the specific date of an original event, publication, or of an contained on these data sheets was used as a reference in com- issuance are given under the DATES column; the ITEM NO. column piling descriptive entries for the guide, but the descriptive gives the identification symbol that is on the original folder; entries were considerably revised because so many of the data the ROLL column gives the T77 roll number on which the document
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