Fonds 2006/3 - German Seekriegsleitung fonds

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German Seekriegsleitung fonds

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    CA ON00093 2006/3

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    • 1944-1945 (Creation)

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    15 scrolls of textual records (2 boxes)

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    The "Seekriegsleitung" or SKL (Naval Sea Command) was the highest command post in the Imperial Navy and the German War Navy (Kriegsmarine). It was responsible for planning and executing naval warfare and directing the distribution of naval forces. During the Second World War, its competence was centered on domestic sea areas, where it possessed the greatest operational expertise.

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    Fonds consists of printouts of captured German Navy documents focusing on what the Germans knew about the Normandy landings during the Second World War and how they viewed them. The fonds includes war diaries of German troops, documents relating to mobilization for operations "Alarich", "Konstantin" and "Achse", reports on the crossing of the Scheldt by the Fifteenth Army, correspondence, signals, memoranda and diagrams relating to Air Raid Defence and coast defence matters. It also includes descriptions of Führer Conferences and Black Sea Naval matters, channel coast invasion chronicles, personal notes on various tours of inspection in the summer of 1943, memoranda and diagrams on the flooding of Area on Channel Coast, and documents relating to the Far Eastern situation in 1945. All the scrolls are in German.

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    The immediate source of acquisition is unknown.

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    • English

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      Location of originals

      The original and microfilmed records are stored in the Public Record Office in London, England.

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      Unclassified

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      Copies of the finding aid are located in the first file of the collection and in the Reading Room of the Directorate of Heritage and History (DHH). Electronic copies are also available.

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      No further accruals are expected.

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      The original and microfilmed records are stored in the Public Record Office in London, England

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      The fonds was originally part of the Kardex Collection under the reference number 981 HCN (D1-68) and was accessioned as 2006/3 on 21 February 2006. The rest of the 981 Kardex series has been transferred to Library and Archives Canada. The following material can be found in the DHH Library: "War Diary, Operations Divisions, German Naval Staff (Kriegstagebuch der Seekriegsleitung), 1939-1945" [microfilm] authored by Germany, Kriegsmarine, Seekriegsleitung. (D 771 G47 1971). "Die Deutsche Seekriegsleitung, 1935-1945" by Michael Salewski. (D 771 S34 v. 1-3).

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      The fonds was originally part of the Kardex Collection under the reference number 981 HCN (D1-68) and was accessioned as 2006/3 on 21 February 2006. The rest of the 981 Kardex series has been transferred to Library and Archives Canada.

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