GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 80. Records of the ...

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GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
No. 80. Records of the German Armed Forces High Command
(Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/OKW)
Part VI
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington: 1982
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 T77 To order microfilm, write
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(GSA), Washington, DC 20408
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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
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Library of Congress Catalog Card No 58-9982
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GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
No. 80 Records of the German Armed Forces High Command
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(Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/OKW), Part VI
Amt Ausland/Abwehr (Office of Foreign and Counterintelligence)
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington 1982

I N T R O D U C T I ON
The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va., monographs from 1927 to 1942 by Gen.Maj. a.D. Fritz Gempp,
constitute a series of finding aids to the National Archives Abteilungs leiter der Heeres-Abwehrabteilung im Reichswehr-
and Records Service (NARS) microfilms of seized records of ministerium (Branch Chief of the Army Intelligence Branch in
German central, regional, and local government agencies and the Reich War Ministry), which mainly cover World War I, 1914-18,
of military commands and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, but reach back as far as 1866. These 15 volumes are reproduced
its component formations, affiliated associations, and super- on rolls 1439-1440 and 1507-1509 of NARS Microfilm Publication T77.
vised organizations. The records described in the guides
were created generally during the period 1920-45. The third grouping consists of records of OKW, Amt Ausland/Abwehr -
Abwehrnebenstelle Bremen (Nest Bremen). These records were originally
The guide series was initiated by the microfilming project of filmed by COMUSBASGER (Commander, U.S. Base, Germany), the Office of
the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Naval Intelligence (ONI) between 5 Sep 1945 and 16 Apr 1946, in Bremen,
Historical Association (AHA) in cooperation with NARS and the Germany, as rolls 1-62 and 1-A to 4-A Special. They were later re-
Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA partici- numbered ML 37, ML 101, and ML 150 to ML 229 (7 rolls are missing) with
pation in July 1963, NARS assumed sole responsibility for the several duplicate roll numbers from ML 211 to ML 229. The available
reproduction of records and the preparation of guides. 59 M(icrofilm) L(ibrary) rolls have been incorporated into Microfilm
Publication T77 as rolls 1518-1573 and 1579-1581. The records re-
Guide No. 80 is Part VI of Guides to Records of German Armed produced thereon are mainly incoming and outgoing messages and reports
Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/OKW) and from various Abwehr agents and informants, such as captains of German
describes 96 rolls of Microfilm Publication T77. This guide merchant ships, concerning loading activities, type of cargo, seizure
covers the period generally from 1935 to 1945 and continues and registry of ships, and their destination; also agents' reports on
descriptions of records of the German Armed Forces Intel- convoys and troop ships, manuals ("M.Dv." - Marine Dienstvorschriften),
ligence Service (OKW Abwehr) begun in Guide No. 18; parts I-V and German Navy publications on ports in Great Britain, Portugal, Spain,
are contained in Guides 7, 17-19, and 78. the Soviet Union, and the United States. Included are secret mail logs,
logs of records destroyed (burned), intelligence night duty officers'
The main grouping of Guide No. 80 consists of records of Amt journals, card files of agents (filed by name, code number, and country
Ausland/Abwehr (Office of Foreign and Counterintelligence), employed), and reports sent to Abwehrnebenstelle Bremen through the
Zentralabteilung (Central Branch), Abwehrabteilung I - Spionage Heeres-Fernschreibnetz (Army Teletype Network).
(Intelligence Branch I - Espionage), Abwehrabteilung II -
Sabotage (Intelligence Branch II - Sabotage), Abwehrabteilung As noted above, there are also records of OKW, Amtsgruppe Ausland
III - Spionageabwehr - Gegenabwehr (Intelligence Branch III - (Office Group for Foreign Relations), and Zentralabteilung (Central
Counterespionage), and Chiffrierabteilung (Cipher Branch). Branch), as described in Guide No. 18, pages 93-115, and reproduced
These records are reproduced on 37 rolls of Microfilm Publica- on rolls 876-911 of Microfilm Publication T77, which contain material
tion T77, rolls 1434-1438, 1441-1454, 1456, 1499, "R1500-R1504," on the organization, training, and assignment of Abwehr units and
1505, and 1513-1517. personnel before and during the invasion of Poland, 1 Sep 1939;
invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 Apr 1940; invasion of Luxembourg,
The second grouping consists of 15 volumes of the "Geheimer Belgium, the Netherland, and France, 10 May 1940; invasion of
Nachrichtendienst und Spionageabwehr des Heeres," typescript Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete, 6 Apr 1941; invasion of the Soviet
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Union, 22 Jun 1941; and various intelligence activities in occu- of the document's content. The inclusive dates of the document
pied countries during World War II, mainly in occupied France. or the specific date of an original event, publication, or of
an issuance are given under the DATES column; the ITEM NO.
A data card for each record item was microfilmed immediately column gives the identification symbol that is on the original
preceding the document. The data cards for all documents on folder; the ROLL column gives the T77 roll number on which the
one roll of film were again filmed as a finding aid at the be- document is filmed; and the 1ST FRAME column gives the frame
ginning of that roll. The data cards were prepared hastily to number of the first page of the document.
keep pace with the filming and restitution schedules, therefore
new descriptions were prepared. The provenance to which each The original records have been returned to the Federal Republic
record item is attributed is that of the organization or office of Germany for deposit in the Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv in
that created or filed it. The computer-printed register of Freiburg. The master microfilm negatives of publication T77
record items is in the sequence of microfilm roll numbers, have been deposited with the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS),
which are the computer control numbers; for numerical sequence National Archives and Records Service (GSA), Washington, DC
of all OKW record items described in this guide, consult the 20408, from which copies of specific rolls may be purchased,
listing in the Index. except for "R-Rolls" ("Restricted"). "R-Rolls" pertain to
privileged material and are not available for purchase but may
The INDEX, including instructions for its use, begins on page be reviewed in NARS research rooms. No reproduction of these
90. The index is primarily an archival index to this guide record items are permitted. Reference copies of all other rolls
and only indirectly to the microfilmed documents it describes. may be consulted in the Microfilm Reading Room of the National
Any attempt to index the massive volume of these documents in Archives. For suggestions for citing microfilm, SQ^ page ix;
the comprehensive manner of a book index would encumber or bloat for instructions for ordering microfilm, see page 149,
the index and make it difficult to use. This index was computer
formatted and printed from simultaneous input of keywords of The descriptions in this guide were written by George Wagner
the individual record item descriptions and was supplemented and Petronilla Hawes. Mrs. Hawes also prepared the input data
with references, cross-references, and explanatory subheadings. for the computer. Harry L. Hickman and Annis K. Olsen of NARS,
The full index was then reproduced from the master copies by Editorial Branch, were the editors. The computer input scheme,
photographic offset printing. a modification of the SPINDEX program, was devi.sed by the
undersigned.
The CONTENTS column on the pages containing records descrip-
tions provides (a) the name of the organization, military branch, ROBERT WOLFE
or office that originated the document, (b) the German title Chief, Modern Military Headquarters Branch
appearing on the folder cover, and (c) a general description Military Archives Division
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T A B LE OF C O N T E N TS
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Introduction iii
Organization Plan of the German Armed Forces Intelligence vi
Organization Plan of the German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der
Wehrmacht/OKW) vii
Armed Forces High Command (OKW), Military Intelligence, Part III, Chapter 3 ix
Organization of the German Armed Forces Intelligence Service XV
Published Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va. xvii
Suggestions for Citing Microfilm xx i
Records of the German Armed Forces High Command:
Amt Ausland/Abwehr 1
Amt Ausland/Abwehr "R-Rolls" 49
Gempp Monographs 61
Abwehrnebenstelle Bremen 69
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 90
Instructions for Ordering Microfilm 149
ORGANIZATION PLAN OF THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES INTELLIGENCE
Foreign and Counterintelligence
(Ant Auslandabwehr, A. AusJ./Abvj»)
Formerly: Abteilung Landesverteidigung
Admiral CAFARIS
Foreign Branch Central Branch Intelligence Branch I Intelligence Branch II Intelligence Branch III
(Amtsgruppe Ausland) (Z ent ralabte ilung] (Abv/ehrabteilung I (Abwehrabteilung II) (Abwehrabteilung III)
Kapitan Rurkner Oberst Oster Obstlt. Piekenbrock Obstlt* Lahousen Ostlt. v, Bentivegni
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