Research Resources
Guides to Captured German Records on Microfilm at the US National Archives
The US National Archives (NARA) has a very large collection of German government and military records that were captured at the end of World War II. Most were returned o Germany in the 1970s, but before they were sent back, the documents were photographed and put on microfilm. The links below contains NARA's various guides to the collection.
Guides to Other Collections
Guides to the US Army Foreign Military Studies
These manuscripts were produced by the Foreign Military Studies Program of the Historical Division, US Army Europe, from 1945 to 1954. The manuscripts were prepared by former high-ranking officers of the German Armed Forces and cover a broad range of topics concerning the war against Germany. Most, but not all were translated in English.
Military Dictionaries
Useful References for Authors & Military Historians
Military Map & Cartography Information
Care & Storage of Photographs, Documents, and Other Records
The US National Archives (NARA) has a very large collection of German government and military records that were captured at the end of World War II. Most were returned o Germany in the 1970s, but before they were sent back, the documents were photographed and put on microfilm. The links below contains NARA's various guides to the collection.
- T-70 Records of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, 1936-1944 (Guide No. 22)
- T-71 Records of the Reich Ministry of Economics (Guide No. 1)
- T-73 Records of the Reich Ministry for Armaments & War Production (Guide No. 10)
- T-74 Records of the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germandom (Guide No. 2)
- T-75 Office of the Plenipotentiary for the Serbian Economy
- T-76 Records of the Todt Organization (Organization Todt) (Guide No. 4)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part I) (Guide No. 7)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part II) (Guide No. 17)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part III) (Guide No. 18)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part IV) (Guide No. 19)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part V) (Guide No. 78)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part VI) (Guide No. 80)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part VII) (Guide No. 84)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part VIII) (Guide No. 85)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part IX) (Guide No. 86)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part X) (Guide No. 94)
- T-77 Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command OKW (Part XI) (Guide No. 99)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part I) (Guide No. 12)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part II) (Guide No. 29)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part III) (Guide No. 30)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part IV) (Guide No. 82)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part V) (Guide No. 87)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part VI) (Guide No. 91)
- T-78 Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command OKH (Part VII) (Guide No. 96)
- T-79 Records of German Army Areas (Wehrkreise) (Guide No. 34)
- T-81 Records of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Stuttgart, Records on Resettlement (Part I) (Guide No. 16)
- T-81 Records of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Stuttgart, The General Records (Part II) (Guide No. 21)
- T-81 Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) (Part I) (Guide No. 3)
- T-81 Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) (Part II) (Guide No. 20)
- T-81 Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) (Part III) (Guide No. 35)
- T-81 Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) (Part IV) (Guide No. 77)
- T-82 Records of Nazi Cultural & Research Institutions, & Records Pertaining to Axis Relations & Interests in the Far East (Guide No. 6)
- T-83 Records of Private Austrian, Dutch & German Enterprises (Part I) (Guide No. 23)
- T-83 Records of Private German Enterprises & Individuals (Part II) (Guide No. 88)
- T-83 Records of Private German Enterprises & Individuals (Part III) (Guide No. 93)
- T-84 Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I) (Guide No. 5)
- T-84 Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part II) (Guide No. 8)
- T-84 Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part III) (Guide No. 36)
- T-84 Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part IV) (Guide No. 90)
- T-84 Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part V) (Guide No. 98)
- T-175 Records of the Reich Leader of the SS & Chief of the German Police (Part I) (Guide No. 32)
- T-175 Records of the Reich Leader of the SS & Chief of the German Police (Part II) (Guide No. 33)
- T-175 Records of the Reich Leader of the SS & Chief of the German Police (Part III) (Guide No. 39)
- T-175 Records of the Reich Leader of the SS & Chief of the German Police (Part IV) (Guide No. 81)
- T-177 Records of the Reich Air Ministry (Guide No. 13)
- T-178 Fragmentary Records of Miscellaneous Reich Ministries & Offices (Guide No. 11)
- T-179 Records of Former German & Japanese Embassies & Consulates, 1890-1945 (Guide No. 15)
- T-253 Records of Private German Individuals (Guide No. 9)
- T-283 German Military Field & Technical Manuals 1910-1945
- T-311 Records of German Field Commands - Army Groups (Part I) (Guide No. 40)
- T-311 Records of German Field Commands - Army Groups (Part II) (Guide No. 52)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armee-Abteilungen (Guide No. 50)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part I) (Guide No. 14)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part II) (Guide No. 42)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part III) (Guide No. 43)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part IV) (Guide No. 44)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part V) (Guide No. 47)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part VI) (Guide No. 48)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part VII) (Guide No. 49)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part VIII) (Guide No. 54)
- T-312 Records of German Field Commands - Armies (Part IX) (Guide No. 56)
- T-313 Records of German Field Commands - Panzer Armies (Part I) (Guide No. 51)
- T-313 Records of German Field Commands - Panzer Armies (Part II) (Guide No. 53)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part I) (Guide No. 46)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part II) (Guide No. 55)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part III) (Guide No. 58)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part IV) (Guide No. 59)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part V) (Guide No. 60)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part VI) (Guide No. 61)
- T-314 Records of German Field Commands - Corps (Part VII) (Guide No. 62)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part I) (Guide No. 41)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part II) (Guide No. 45)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part III) (Guide No. 63)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part IV) (Guide No. 64)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part V) (Guide No. 65)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part VI) (Guide No. 66)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part VII) (Guide No. 67)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part VIII) (Guide No. 68)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part IX) (Guide No. 69)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part X) (Guide No. 70)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part XI) (Guide No. 71)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part XII) (Guide No. 72)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part XIII) (Guide No. 73)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part XIV) (Guide No. 74)
- T-315 Records of German Field Commands - Divisions (Part XV) (Guide No. 76)
- T-321 Records of Headquarters, German Air Force High Command (Part I) (Guide No. 24)
- T-321 Records of Headquarters, German Air Force High Command (Part II) (Guide No. 92)
- T-354 Miscellaneous SS Records Einwandererzentralstelle, Waffen-SS, SS-Oberabschnitte (Guide No. 27)
- T-354 Records of the Waffen SS (Part I) (Guide No. 75)
- T-354 Records of the Waffen SS (Part II) (Guide No. 79)
- T-354 Records of the Waffen SS (Part III) (Guide No. 95)
- T-401 Records of the Reich Office for Soil Exploration (Guide No. 26)
- T-405 German Air Force Records Luftgaukommandos, Flak, Deutsche Luftwaffenmission in Rumanien (Guide No. 25)
- T-454 Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories 1941-1945 (Part I) (Guide No. 28)
- T-454 Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories 1941-1945 (Part II) (Guide No. 97)
- T-459 Records of the Reich Commissioner for the Baltic States 1941-1945 (Guide No. 31)
- T-501 Records of German Field Commands Rear Areas, Occupied Territories & Others (Part I) (Guide No. 38)
- T-501 Records of German Field Commands Rear Areas, Occupied Territories & Others (Part II) (Guide No. 57)
- T-580 Records of the SS Economic and Administrative Office (Guide No. 83)
- T-608 Records of Headquarters, German Navy High Command (OKM) (Guide No. 37)
- T-821 Collection of Italian Military Records 1935-1943
- T-971 Von Rohden Collection of Research Materials on the Role of the German Air Force in World War II 1911-47
- T-973 Guide to the Collection of Hungarian Political and Military Records, 1909-1945
- T-1022 Records of the German Navy, 1850-1945 No. 1 - U-Boats and T-Boats 1914-1918
- T-1022 Records of the German Navy, 1850-1945 No. 2 - U-Boat Warfare 1939-1945
- T-1022 Records of the German Navy, 1850-1945 No. 4 - German Navy Operational Commands in World War II
- T-1022 Records of the German Navy, 1850-1945 No. 6 - Imperial German Navy relating to World War I
Guides to Other Collections
- Catalogue of Official AEF WWI Photographs taken by the Signal Corps
- WWI German Documents from Records of the AEF at NARA
Guides to the US Army Foreign Military Studies
These manuscripts were produced by the Foreign Military Studies Program of the Historical Division, US Army Europe, from 1945 to 1954. The manuscripts were prepared by former high-ranking officers of the German Armed Forces and cover a broad range of topics concerning the war against Germany. Most, but not all were translated in English.
- Guide to US Army Foreign Military Studies 1945-1954
- Supplement to Guide to US Army Foreign Military Studies 1945-1954
- Guide to Foreign Military Studies P-143d (Selected Regimental Operations on the Eastern Front) & P-149 (Combat Series)
- Additional Information about US Army Foreign Military Studies, 1945-1961
Military Dictionaries
- German Military Abbreviations (War Department: Apr 1943)
- TM 30-506, German Military Dictionary (War Department: May 1944)
- A French-English Military Dictionary (US Military Academy: 1917)
- Soldier's Service Dictionary of English and French Terms (Funk & Wagnalls Co: 1917)
- British Military Terminology (War Department: May 1943)
Useful References for Authors & Military Historians
- Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States
- Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
- Guide to Evaluating Historical Materials
Military Map & Cartography Information
- Approach to Foreign Map Reading Part II (Apr 1943)
- FM 21-30 Conventional Signs, Military Symbols, and Abbreviations (Oct 43)
Care & Storage of Photographs, Documents, and Other Records