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Title: Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government miscellaneous records
Date (inclusive): 1944-1950
Collection Number: 80197
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and German
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes
(5.6 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
[Identification of item], Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government
miscellaneous records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & 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.
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955), Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955: U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government for Bavaria. Kreis Traunstein,
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
Military government
Denazification
International relief
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany