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TES AMmCAU HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA)COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMENTSGUIDESffiOGERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA»This- Is part of a series of guides prepared "by the American Historical Association listing recdrds microfilmed at Alexandria, Va., "bythe American Historical Association Microfilming Project*An American Committee for the Study of War Documents was establ&jhfcd -in 1955 as a private group of scholars interested in documentaryresearch and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign origin kept in American depositories. In 1956, the American Committee"became a committee of the American Historical Association. Its present Chairman (1959) is Professor Oron J. Hale, University of Virginia,who was preceded "by Dean Reginald H« Phelps, Harvard University, and Professor Lynn M. Case of the University of Pennsylvania An initialFord Foundation grant and additional funds provided "by the Old Dominion Foundation enabled the Committee to undertake the cataloguing andmicrofilming of declassified German records in the custody of the World War II Records Division of the National Archives (previously TAG-0,Bepartmental Records Branch) at Alexandria, Virginia*The plans for screening and microfilming of these materials were prepared "by a Subcommittee on Microfilming under the Chairmanshipto the end of 1956 of ProfessorE. Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr. Fritz T« Epstein* The Library of Congress,/ ^Professor Gerhard L, Weinberg of the University of Kentucky directed the microfilming team in Alexandria in 1956/7 which is now underthe supervision of Dr» Dagmar Horna PermanT/a £•/......The"•*present guide describes a complete record group filmed by the Microfilming"•^""'^Project of the AHA Committee. Since the projectis not yet complete, the guide to some record groups will appear in installments* J«*•/Washington, D.C., May 1959Dr. Boyd C. ShaferExecutive Secretary, AHAiii