The Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau (German Historical Institut Moscow) has published the News that on 29th April the CAMO (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence) and the Institut now jointly offers online access to Wehrmacht files. Unfortunately in German and Russian only. http://www.dhi-moskau.org/de/institut/aktuelles/details/news/detail/News/bislang-unveroeffentlichte-wehrmachtsakten-jetzt-online-zugaenglich.html?lp=1&cHash=2daeaba43b1ed5514551fbe3546d4b69 Stefan.
http://www.germandocsinrussia.org/en/nodes/1-russisch-deutsches-projekt-zur-digitalisierung-deutscher-dokumente-in-den-archiven-der-russischen-foderation
I believe the other earlier link in English is only very general and does not help for details you may want to Research. What are the BEF HQ Documents? Stefan.
Stefan....No-one knows but there have been suggestions that the BEF failed to destroy all their documentation and much was captured and removed to Berlin. This was logically, in turn, captured by the Russians who would have wasted no chance to find out as much as possible about their future cold-war enemies. That said, they may not have kept it for long.....
There are also WW1 documents, including divisional war diaries. Here's an interesting one relating to unloading F-lighters on beaches, in the context of the invasion of England: http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1390-akte-600-okh-oberquartiermeister-belgien-strandausladung-von-versorgungsgutern-im-rahmen-der#page/30/mode/grid/zoom/1 http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1389-akte-599-okh-oberquartiermeister-belgien-strandausladung-bildbeilage-teil-der-vorbereitung#page/30/mode/grid/zoom/1 All in German of course. The scan quality and interface are top-notch in my view, and put other archives to shame. All the best Andreas
Totally agree with Andreas. If only I had the time to search through the thousends of documents. Andreas, have you seen any possibility to go to a Findbuch and enter say the term Kriegsgefangene? Stefan.
You can just search the webpage, since all documents are shown, and have a semi-detailed description. At present I think there is very little that does not relate to the war in the East. Whether that is because other documents weren't kept, or because that is the priority of the institute, I don't know. The project will only conclude in 2018, so I would expect a lot of documents to be added. Regarding the other inquiry about BEF files, there is only German stuff at the moment, nothing else. All the best Andreas
