SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, 1940-1946:
SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE DURING WORLD WAR II
Series One: SOE Operations in Western Europe

Part 3: Germany, 1936-1945 (Public Record Office Class HS 6/617-722)

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HS 6/617: 1943-1944 - Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; Peacefeelers and approaches (German) (Folder 1)
HS 6/618: 1944 - Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; Peacefeelers and approaches (German) (Folder 2)
HS 6/619: 1944-1945 - Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; Peacefeelers and approaches (German); with German newspaper cutting (Folder 3)
HS 6/620: 1941-1945 - Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; Peacefeelers and approaches (German); with 2 Swedish newspaper cuttings (Folder 4)
HS 6/621: 1944 - Politics: German Committee minutes

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HS 6/622: 1943-1944 - Politics: Counter-intelligence committee
HS 6/623: 1944-1945 - Politics: operation FOXLEY: plan to kill Hitler and/or his satellites
HS 6/624: undated - Operation FOXLEY (Folder 1)
HS 6/625: 1944-1945 - Operation FOXLEY (Folder 2)
HS 6/626: 1945 - Little FOXLEYS
HS 6/627: 1941-1945 - Intelligence: prisons, internment and concentration camps (Folder 1)
HS 6/628: 1944-1945 - Intelligence: prisons, internment and concentration camps; SHAEF preliminary list of and general information on concentration camps (Folder 2)
HS 6/629: 1944-1975 - Prisons, internment and concentration camps: Dachau and Buchenwald (Folder 1)
HS 6/630: 1945 - Prisons, internment and concentration camps: Sachsenhausen, Emsland, Oranienburg, Gusen (Mauthausen) (Folder 2)

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HS 6/631: 1943-1945 - Prisons, internment and concentration camps: POWs; regulations and conditions; details of various camps (Folder 1)
HS 6/632: 1945 - Prisons, internment and concentration camps: POWs; regulations and conditions; details of various camps (Folder 2)
HS 6/633: 1945 - SHAEF handbook of concentration camps and detention centres in Europe
HS 6/634: 1944-1945 - Short-term infiltration operations including VERITABLE, PENCIL, GRENADE, PLUNDER, ANGER and VARSITY
HS 6/635: 1943-1944 - RANKIN, TALISMAN, T FORCE; targets; future role of SOE; SHAEF directives (Folder 1)
HS 6/636: 1944 - RANKIN, TALISMAN, T FORCES; policy; final directives to SOE from SHAEF (Folder 2)

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HS 6/637: 1938-1945 - Policy: foreign workers in Germany; fomenting of revolutionary ideas; BRADDOCK I and II; WILDHORN; TROJAN HORSE I-IV
HS 6/638: 1942-1945 - Top level planning: policy planning of SOE post-war activities; German diplomatic and consular missions in neutral countries
HS 6/639: 1941-1944 - Operational policy including proposals for SOE/PWE action in support of invasion in Europe
HS 6/640: 1944 - Operational policy including paper on long and short-term SOE operations
HS 6/641: 1942-1973 - Propaganda letters for posting in Germany; Himmler stamps; with 14 newspaper cuttings (some folded) including Swedish and French
HS 6/642: 1936-1940 - Operations of Johannes Jahn
HS 6/643: 1942-1943 - Post-war reorganisation in Germany (Folder 1)

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HS 6/644: 1943 - Post-war reorganisation in Germany, including Nazi schools (Folder 2)
HS 6/645: 1943-1944 - Post-war re-organisation in Germany (Folder 3)
HS 6/646: 1942-1943 - LILY and HARRY
HS 6/647: 1941-1943 - International Transport Workers Federation; communications into Sweden (Folder 1)
HS 6/648: 1943-1645 - International Transport Workers Federation: communications into Sweden (Folder 2)

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HS 6/649: 1942-1945 - SAM and EDWARD; movements of German ships; with 1 Swedish newspaper cutting
HS 6/650: 1941-1944 - Sopade communications into Sweden (Folder 1)
HS 6/651: 1943-1945 - Sopade communications into Sweden (Folder 2)
HS 6/652: 1942-1944 - CALVADOS: sabotage operation in Bremen and Hamburg concerning Kurt Knig
HS 6/653: 1941-1943 - Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland
(Folder 1)

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HS 6/654: 1943 - Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland (Folder 2)
HS 6/655: 1943-1945 - Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland (Folder 3)
HS 6/656: 1942-1945 - Operation SHELTER: to arrest leading Nazis (connected with Dr H Soedermann)
HS 6/657: 1943-1944 - German armistice terms
HS 6/658: 1944 - Operation DOWNEND (Folder 1)
HS 6/659: 1944-1945 - Operation DOWNEND (Folder 2)

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HS 6/660: 1944 - Operation FORDWICK (Folder 1)
HS 6/661: 1944-1945 - Operation FORDWICK (Folder 2)
HS 6/662: 1944-1945 - Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin (Folder 1)
HS 6/663: 1944 - Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin with German and French identity cards (Folder 2)
HS 6/664: 1944-1945 - Operation FRILFORD: to sabotage railway track from Hintschingen to Oberlauchringen
HS 6/665: 1944-1945 - Operation COLAN: to sabotage main railway line between Stuttgart and Heilbronn
HS 6/666: 1944-1945 - Operation FLECKNEY: acts of sabotage in region of Breslau

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HS 6/667: 1944-1945 - Operation CLINT: sabotage of railway lines Singen-Hattingen and Sigmaringen-Tuttlingen
HS 6/668: 1944-1945 - Operation CALTON: to develop subversive activities of Edelweiss organisation in Ruhr and Rhineland area
HS 6/669: 1944-1945 - Operation CHALFONT: sabotage against new type of German U-boat
HS 6/670: 1944-1945 - Operation CARHAM: sabotage in Magdeburg area
HS 6/671: 1945 - Operation COLBURN: sabotage of railway lines Gelnhausen - Schluechtern and Aschaffenberg - Gemuenden
HS 6/672: 1945 - Captain Strutts TRIANGLE agents
HS 6/673: 1945 - Operation CARSTAIRS: sabotage in Halle area
HS 6/674: 1945 - Operation CHALGROVE: sabotage in Hamburg area; attempt to assassinate U-boat officers
HS 6/675: 1945 - Operation COLEHILL: sabotage in Berlin area

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HS 6/676: 1945 - Operation CRESSWELL: sabotage by dockworkers and seamen in
Hamburg/Bremen area
HS 6/677: 1945 - Operation CAREW: tactical sabotage on targets behind enemy lines
HS 6/678: 1944-1945 - Operations FANGFOSS and FIDDINGTON sabotage in Flensburg and Kiel
HS 6/679: 1945 - Activities of MOUSE (alias of Musy) in Switzerland concerning organisation of escape lines for useful persons from Germany with 6 German newspaper cuttings (2 folded)
HS 6/680: 1945 - Operation BRANSTON: sabotage in Luebeck area
HS 6/681: 1945 - FELSPAR: courier operation between Hamburg, Kiel and Flensburg
HS 6/682: 1945 - Operation CURLAND: sabotage of railway line Nordhausen/Blankenheim
HS 6/683: 1945 - Operation CREGINA: sabotage of railway line Eisenach/Bebra
HS 6/684: 1945 - Operation CROMER: despatch of two agents from Sweden to Luebeck to organise penetration of Nazi underground movement
HS 6/685: 1945 - Operation MARKINCH: to make attempts on lives of U-boat officers in Kiel area and to incite sailors and dock-workers to subversive activities
HS 6/686: 1945 - Operation CATMORE: sabotage in marshalling yards of Augsburg

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HS 6/687: 1945 - Operation MIRFIELD: to sabotage vital machinery in electric railway transformer station at Pasing
HS 6/688: 1945 - Operation CLIXBY: infiltrating 3 agents through enemy lines to carry out tactical reconnaissance or sabotage
HS 6/689: 1945 - ME42: recruiting and disposal of agents (Bonzos); new SOE charter from SHAEF for action in Germany; political intelligence (Folder 1)
HS 6/690: 1945 - ME42: recruiting and disposal of agents (Bonzos); new SOE charter from SHAEF for action in Germany; political intelligence (Folder 2)
HS 6/691: 1945 - Internationale Sozialistische Kampf-bund (ISK) personnel and SOE collaboration in post-war Germany
HS 6/692: 1940-1943 - Weekly and monthly progress reports
HS 6/693: 1941-1945 - Switzerland: possible contacts to form line of communication
HS 6/694: 1942-1944 - PWE productions; black propaganda with 3 newspaper cuttings (some in German and Swedish) (Folder 1)
HS 6/695: 1943-1945 - PWE productions; black propaganda with 20 newspaper cuttings (some folded and most in German and Swedish) (Folder 2)

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HS 6/696: 1943-1945 - PWE productions; black propaganda with 20 newspaper cuttings (some folded and most in German and Swedish); with German pamphlet and 16 newspaper; Cuttings in German and Swedish (some folded) (Folder 3)
HS 6/697: 1939-1940 - Retained by department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/698: 1940-1942 - Retained by department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/699: 1940-1942 - Demuth Committee
HS 6/700: 1943-1944 - Liaison with Directorate of Civil Affairs: provision of staff officer for Civil Affairs; Gauleiter school
HS 6/701: 1941-1943: Agent in Switzerland: X/G/115 (J.Q.F.)
HS 6/702: 1940-1944: Enemy agents; with Swedish newspaper cutting (folded)
HS 6/703: 1942-1944: OSS and German migr resistance groups

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HS 6/704: 1944-1945 - SOE participation with OSS in operations NAPLES II, VARSITY, CHOKER II
HS 6/705: 1944-1945 - SOE Paris mission in liaison with DGER dealing with work into Germany
HS 6/706: 1945 - SOE Paris mission; DGER and its liaison with SOE, MI5, MI6, OSS, SHAEF; weekly minutes of DGER meetings; JUDEX missions; Devon Committee; Booster project; NORVIC mission; VICARAGE; Jedburgh mission ROSE (Folder 1)
HS 6/707: 1945 - SOE Paris mission; DGER and its liaison with SOE, MI5, MI6, OSS, SHAEF; weekly minutes of DGER meetings; JUDEX missions; Devon Committee; Booster project; NORVIC mission; VICARAGE; Jedburgh mission ROSE (Folder 2)
HS 6/708: 1944-1945 - Paris mission and DGER: personnel and Centre 20 and training establishments

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HS 6/709: 1944-1945 - Joint DLSSL/SOE intelligence and planning section (Dtachement de liaison des Services spciaux Londres); plans to send French agents to Germany; operations MOLESEY and VICARAGE; communications; BBC messages and pigeon operations; methods of sabotage
HS 6/710: 1945 - Operation DOWNRIGHT 1A: dropping of stores; training stores; Centre 20; policy and supply to Direction Gnrale des Etudes et Recherches (DGER)
HS 6/711: 1945 - Operation NORVIC: to interrupt railways communication on Siegburg/Betzdorf line
HS 6/712: 1945 - Operation JAEGER/AIDAN: to provide French foreign workers near Turkheim; with wireless communications and ensure their cooperation with advancing Allied forces
HS 6/713: 1945 - Operations not completed: MATITA/ PENDA (Augsburg area); MATITA/RUFUS (Turkheim); KOUPY/BIRINO (Munchen); wireless operators
HS 6/714: 1945 - French short-term saboteurs under Commandant St Jacques
HS 6/715: 1945 - Goujon party and suggested targets in Germany
HS 6/716: 1945 - Bolingbroke mission: Goethals alias Godart
HS 6/717: 1945 - Lamberts mission: wireless operator sent to organise Belgian workers in Augsburg area
HS 6/718: 1942-1945 - Policy and planning: BRADDOCK I and II; general planning

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HS 6/719: 1942-1944 - BRADDOCK I and II: progress reports and stock returns
HS 6/720: 1942-1945 - BRADDOCK I and II: communication with War Cabinet, Prime Minister and SHAEF
HS 6/721: 1942-1945 - BRADDOCK I and II: SOE Chiefs of Staff papers; with 1 German newspaper cutting and German leaflet
HS 6/722: 1942-1945 - BRADDOCK I and II: security section file