Containment notes: > Contains a.o.: Formation of a Westphalian provincial committee. intus: Trade and power politics, speeches and essays Volume 1, 2nd ed. Stuttgart 1900, Bitter noth is us a strong German fleet, thoughts of a fatherland friend, Berlin 1899, Anzeiger für Gemeindebeamte, organ of the Central-Verband der Gemeindebeamten Preußens, no. 2/1900, directory of the presidium, of the executive committee of the managing organs,..., of the German Fleet Association, status: 1.1.1900, colonial magazine no. 20/1900.

Inventory description: The sovereignty of the French government remained intact, with some restrictions, in the southern French territory not occupied by Germany after the German-French armistice of June 1940. Control organs of the German Armistice Commission (RW 34) supervised the disarmament of the French army and the registration or delivery of military equipment. The German mistrust of the French government under Marshal Pétain in Vichy led Hitler to instruct the Mayor of West France from the end of 1940 onwards to stand ready for an occupation of the rest of France at any time (company "Attila", later "Anton"). Until November 1942, however, when the Allied troops landed in French North Africa and the French government in Vichy and local authorities adopted at least an unclear stance, there was no reason for German troops to occupy southern France. During the occupation of Vichy on November 11, 1942, the "German General of the Commander-in-Chief West" took up his duties and was thus, as it were, liaison officer of the Lord Mayor West with the French Head of State Marshal Philippe Pétain. In cooperation with various civilian Reich authorities, he had to represent the German demands to the French government in the part of France which had remained unoccupied until then and to supervise their execution or implementation (see also the Instructions for the German General of the Lord Mayor West in Vichy in RH 31-VII/1). In September 1944 the office was closed. Lieutenant General Alexander Freiherr Neubronn von Eisenburg headed the office, having previously worked in the Armistice Commission and headed the Bourges Army Control Inspectorate. Characterisation of content: In addition to the War Diary No. 3 (21 October to 31 December 1943) and the activity report for the first quarter of 1944, only collective files have survived in which the following topics are reflected: Occupation of southern France, demobilisation, integration of members of the French army into the economy, site overviews, control and security of communications, notes and reports on meetings of Lieutenant-General Freiherr Neubronn v. Eisenburg with French members of government, border traffic, cooperation with the Armistice Commission, tasks and powers of the Higher SS and Police Commander, traffic with German police stations in Vichy, mood and situation reports, security and control measures, troop accommodation, events in Toulon, Records and stocks of the French transitional army, French labour service, seizures of state and private property by German authorities, applications for release, French penal and military institutions, arrests, petitions and applications for release of prisoners and release of buildings. State of Indexing: Findbuch Vorarchivische Ordnung: Archivische Bearbeitung The stock RH31-VII Deutscher General des Oberbefehlshabers West in Vichy was updated in 2011 and transferred to the database BASYS-S-2 according to the current indexing guidelines. The old signatures were also added to the database, making it possible to search for them. The documents - in particular the war diaries - were supplemented with notes on contents in order to depict special or important contents. Due to the loss of written records and the resulting gaps in their transmission between 1941 and 1945, the documents were not evaluated. The oversized maps and technical drawings were removed for conservation reasons and are now stored together in map folders under newly created signatures. Scope, explanation: 29 AE Citation method: BArch, RH 31-VII/...

Correspondence on administrative issues and individual employees; correspondence on medical care for missionaries and their families returning from internment; correspondence with the "German Labor Front" on the resignation of Prof. Dr. Fischer, 1939; Statutes of the DIFÄM, version 1939, 1950 1954; Annual Reports, 1939-1943 1949; Report of the Annual Meeting and Accounts, 1949; Prospectus of the Tropical Recovery Home, 1950; News from the Medical Mission, No. 1, 1950

Contains: - Article "Ueber die Völkerliga" from the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", Aug. 13, 1918 (mechanical copy) - Report on a survey on the establishment of a "Deutscher Völkerbund-Liga" (mechanical copy) together with a letter from Fritz Springer, [1918] and Oct. 2, respectively. 1918 - Proposal of the Swiss Committee for the Preparation of the League of Nations for the Realization of the League of Nations, Application for the Establishment of a "German League of Nations" as a Section of the "League of Nations for Freedom and Fatherland" and Invitation to Discuss these Applications, Oct. 7, 1918. 1918 - Proposal to the warring powers for the establishment of peace and for the establishment of the League of Nations, as well as draft of a declaration of Germany to its war opponents by the Swiss Committee for the Preparation of the League of Nations, with accompanying letter, Oct. 1918 - flyer draft for the "Deutsche Liga für Völkerbund" and league flyer "Der Völkerbund", [Oct. or Nov. 1918 resp. 1918-1919] - "Arbeitsplan für die Deutsche Liga für Völkerbund", [1918-1919] - essay "Erzbergers Grundgedanken", signed with "Fidelis", from: "Der Vortrupp" 7 (1918) Nr. 21, p. 401-411 - essay "Walther Schücking. A German Teacher of International Law" by Hans Wehberg, n.d. - Invitation and programme as well as principles for the programme of the International League of Nations Conference from 5-12 March 1919 in Bern together with accompanying letter, Febr. 1919 - Essay "Wilson und der Völkerbundgedanke" by Count Bernstorff in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Wilson und der Völkerbundgedanke" by Graf Bernstorff in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Febr. 1919 - Essay "Die Entente - Deutschlands Wegweiser zum Bolschewismus oder zum Völkerbund?" by Bernhard Dernburg, from: "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Febr. 7, 1919 - Essay "Deutschlands sozialpolitisches Programm für den Völkerbund" by J. Giesberts in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 3, 1919 - Essay "Die deutschen Missionen und das Völkerrecht" by Prof. Dr. D. Baumgarten in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 24, 1919. April 1919 - Essay "Der 'gerechte Krieg'" by Prof. Dr. Gustav Radbruch in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", 28 April 1919 - Part of a draft law on labour law issues from the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", o.D. - "Deutscher Entwurf eines Verfassung des Völkerbundes" der Studienkommission der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht unter dem Vorsitz von Prof. Dr. Niemeyer, [1919] - "Proposals of the German Government for the Establishment of a League of Nations" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", n.d. - Cross section of the press "Der Völkerbundgedanke in Italien" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Jan. 1919 - article "Der Smutssche Völkerbundplan" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", n.d. - cross section "Zug um Zug der Entente-Propaganda" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", febr. 1919 - newspaper article "Der Völkerbund. Der Entwurf", 15 Febr. [1919] - Letter by Prof. Ruhlmann of the "League for League of Nations", concerning the discussion of cultural policy propaganda abroad in the Committee for Foreign Affairs, with drafts of Haußmann's reply and a letter to the Reich Foreign Minister Hermann Müller, Jan.Feb. 1920 - Invitation by the weekly "Die Menschheit" to comment on what would be the most effective decisions of the League of Nations Assembly, with draft reply, Oct. 1920 - "Article for the Volkswehr. The disarmament question at the League of Nations Conference in Bern" by Count Max Montgelas, [1919] Darin: - Die Tätigkeit des Völkerbundes im Monat August Nr. 5, 1. Sept. 1921

History of the Inventor: Similar to Alsace, in 1940 no territorial arrangement was made for Lorraine (Départe-ment Moselle) in the context of the armistice negotiations which would have clearly aimed at annexation of the territory by Germany. As in the case of Alsace, this incorporation was to be carried out tacitly, with a policy of Germanization which, as a means of achieving its goal, made use partly of expulsion and partly of the cultural policy of excluding French traditions from public life. The security police tasks here consisted on the one hand in supporting this Germanization policy, and on the other in the usual Nazi measures of fighting opponents and resistance. Processing note: Online-Findbuch Inventory description: Inventory history: The inventory consists of files that were confiscated by the US occupying power at the end of the war and later returned to the Federal Republic of Germany. The total number of files is 93 AU. Archival evaluation and processing: The evaluation and indexing of the holdings took place in 1976 in the Koblenz office of the Federal Archives. The present finding aid is based on the preliminary finding aid developed there. Characterisation of the contents: The records of the German police stations in Lorraine kept in the Federal Archives contain files of the offices of the Commander of the Security Police and of the SD in Metz as well as the corresponding branch offices, files of the Higher SS and Police Leader Westmark, the commanders of the Security Police and of the SD in Metz and Saarburg, the Commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Saarbrücken and Metz, the police president there and his subordinate organs as well as various gendarmerie posts. The main focus is on documents relating to various police investigations and administrative organisation. Tradition: Higher SS and Police Commander Westmark (1), Commander of the Sipo and SD Metz: Division I Administration and Law (6), Dept. III Territories (2), Dept. IV Opponents and Defense - Gestapo - (12), Dept. V Kripo (3), Investigator (6), State Police Field Office Diedenhofen (1), State Police Field Office Saarburg (1), Criminal Inspectorate III Diedenhofen (1), Kripoausposten Hagendingen (1), Sipo and SD commanders and Einsatzkommando: Commander of the Sipo Metz (2), Einsatzkommando I/II Metz (2), Einsatzkommando II/3 Saarburg (3), Commander of the Sipo Westmark - alternative places Heiligenwald and St. Wendel (1), Commander of the Saarbrücken police force (12), Commander of the Metz police force (13), Metz State Police Administration: Police Commissioner (6), Patrol Police Command (3), Motoring Squadron (4), Section Command I (2); Gendarmerie: Commander of the Gendarmerie at the Reich Governor in the Westmark and Chief of the Civil Administration in Lorraine (12), Gendarmerie base Salzburgen (1), Gendarmerie Main Team St. Avold (1), Gendarmerieposten Farschweiler (2), Gendarmerieposten Mörchingen (1), Gendarmerieposten Rohrbach (1), Gendarmerie Kreis Saargemünd (1) State of development: Findbuch 1976, Online-Findbuch 2012 Scope, Explanation: 93 AE Citation method: BArch, R 70-LOTHRINGEN/...

Contains among other things: - "The colonial Germans from D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in Belgian captivity." Published by Reichskolonialamt, Berlin 1918 (printed).

Contains among other things: Colonial mandates in relation to the League of Nations

Colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War: A German prison camp in Aus. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Cameroon