At the end of
WWII parts of the German state archives were captured by the Soviet forces and
taken to the Soviet Union. There they were placed in various Soviet state
archives and kept out of reach of researchers. With the fall of the Soviet
Union these archives were opened to researchers but not many people have taken
advantage of that. Thankfully some of these German documents have recently
become available online. The website of The
Russian-German project to digitize German documents in the archives of the
Russian Federation has uploaded a large number of German documents from WWI
and WWII.
The site
says:
‘As a result of the anti-Hitler coalition
victory in the Second World War, documents of Nazi Germany turned up in many
countries, including Russia. Largest collections of German documents are kept
in the Federal archives of the Russian Federation (State Archive of the Russian
Federation (GARF), the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA) and the Russian
State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI)), and in the Central Archive
of the Russian Ministry of Defense (TsAMO). The project to digitize German
documents was initiated by the administration of the Russian President in 2011.
It is executed by the Russian Historical Society, the Ministry of Defense and
the Federal archival agency with support from the German Historical Institute
in Moscow. Coordination committee, overseeing the digitization project, is
headed by S.E. Naryshkin, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal
Assembly of the Russian Federation.’
Regarding
German sigint activities during WWII, the search terms ‘Nachrichten Aufklärung’ and ‘horchtruppen’ bring up many
interesting documents. For example:
Baudot
traffic
Reports of
Kommandeur der Horchtruppen Ost
Reports of
Nachrichten Aufklärung Auswertestelle 2
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