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Inventory of the Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government miscellaneous
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Title: Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government miscellaneous records
Dates: 1944-1950
Collection Number: 80197
Creator: Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government.
Collection Size:
14 manuscript boxes
(5.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, statistics, indexes, laws, proclamations, press releases, and bulletins, relating to American
administration of occupied Germany after World War II, and especially to civilian relief, economic conditions, housing, and
denazification.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
German
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government
miscellaneous records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955), Hoover Institution Archives
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955: U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government for Bavaria. Kreis Traunstein,
Hoover Institution Archives
The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation
zones for administrative purposes during the period 1945-1949. The American zone consisted of Bavaria and Hessen in Southern
Germany, and the northern portions of the present-day German state of Baden-Württemberg. The port cities of Bremen (on the
Weser River) and Bremerhaven (at the meeting of the Weser and North Sea) were also placed under the control of the U.S. because
of the American request to have toeholds in Northern Germany, as well as the bulk of the south. The city of Berlin was jointly
occupied by the Allied powers and was itself subdivided into four sectors. The headquarters of the American military government
was the former IG Farben Building, Frankfurt am Main.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records of American administration of occupied Germany (U.S. Zone) contain documentation mostly of the Office of Military
Government, Berlin Sector (OMGBS) and the Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone (OMGUS), 1945-1949.
These records represent materials relating to civilian relief efforts, particularly economic conditions, housing, and denazification,
and including correspondence, reports, memoranda, statistics, indexes, laws, proclamations, press releases, and bulletins.
Information on living conditions and the food availability may be found in "Food Ration Entitlements and Ration Issue Report,"
1945-1948, while historical reports on the housing situation and housing relief efforts are presented in the Building and
Housing Section reports.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Denazification.
International relief.
Military government.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief.
Germany--History--1945-1955.