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Description of the stock: The military commander, France, exercised supreme authority in the parts of France occupied since 1940, with the exception of the departments of Alsace and Lorraine, which were placed under the command of the civil administrations, and the departments of Nord and Pas de Calais, for which the military commander was responsible in Belgium and northern France (see also the annexes listed below). The focus of the military commander's tasks was not so much on military matters (e.g. defence against enemy landing attempts, coastal protection) as on administrative and economic matters. After the German occupation of southern France in 1942, the German General was in charge of military affairs for the Commander-in-Chief West in Vichy. Annexes: 1st structure of the military administration in France (as at 29 July 1940) 2nd structure plan of the administrative staff (as at the end of November 1941) 3rd structure plan of the administrative staff (as at 1 November 1942) 4th structure plan of the military administration in France (as at 1 March 1944) 5th structure plan of the military administration in France (as at 1 March 1944) Use of field commandant offices in occupied territory of France (as of 15 March 1941) 6. Use of high field commandant offices, field commandant offices, German main and connecting staffs, branch offices and square commandant offices (as of 1 August 1944) Content characterization: The extent of the documents lost due to the effects of war is not known exactly. More than half of the documents that have been archived in the Federal Archives come from the Military Commander's administrative staff (activity reports, control of French legislation, administration of justice, police matters, management of the French economy, mining, labour operations, recording of documents of German interest in French libraries and archives). From the documents of the command staff the general activity reports deserve special mention. In addition, there are orders, orders and reports from the military administrative districts and a few fragments of documents of the intelligence staff about the intelligence facilities of the Maginot Line. The stock contains material according to the following structure: 1. stockpiles 2. command staff military commander France 2.1 commander 2.2 division Ia (operations division) 2.2.1 Organisation and territorial management 2.2.2 Operational planning 2.2.3 Situation reports 2.2.4 Military security of the occupied territories 2.2.5 Telephone directories 2.2.6 Other documents 2.2.7 Dept. Ia/Stopi (pioneering) 2.2.8 Dept. Ia/Gabo (gas defence) 2.2.9 Dept. Ia/Mil.Geo. (Military Geography) 2.3 Division Ib (Supply and Supplies) 2.3.1 Division Ib (1) (Housing Affairs) 2.3.2 Division Ib (3) (Prisons) 2.3.3 Division Ib/VOLS (Air Protection) 2.4 Division Ib (Supply and Supplies) 2.3.1 Division Ib (1) (Accommodation Affairs) 2.3.2 Division Ib (3) (Prisons) 2.3.3 Division Ib/VOLS (Air Defence) 2.4 Division Ib (Air Defence) Ic (Political Advice, Mood, Defense) 2.5 Abt. IIa (Personnel Issues) 2.6 Oberquartiermeisterabteilung Paris/France 2.7 Höherer Nachrichtenführer 2.8 Oberstkriegsgerichtsrat 2.9 Dept. IVa (Intendant) 2.10 German Labor Front/Amt Army - Chairman of the Military Commander France 2.11 Propaganda Department 2.12 Headquarters 3.1 Chief of Military Administration 3.1.1 Organization 3.1.2 Activity Reports 3.1.3 Operation Reports 3.2 Central Department of Military Administration 3.2.1 Organization 3.2.2 Status Reports 3.2.3 Staff Commands 3.2.4 Defense Affairs 3.2.5 Human Resources 3.2.6 Miscellaneous 3.3 Paymaster 3.4 Army Field Postmaster at the Chief Military Administration 3.5 Departments Administration 3.5.1 General administration (Division V 1) 3.5.1.1 General and internal administration (Group V 1/1) 3.5.1.1.1 Drafting 3.5.1.1.2 Administrative measures 3.5.1.1.3 Police matters 3.5.1.2 Cultural and art administrations (Group V 1/2) 3.5.1.2.1 Art protection - Einsatzstab Rosenberg 3.5.1.2.2 Ref. archives 3.5.1.2.2.1 Situation reports 3.5.1.2.2 Internal services 3.5.1.2.2.3 Expertise, elaborations, lectures and press articles 3.5.1.2.2.4 Supervision of the French archives 3.5.1.2.2.5 Branch office of archival protection 3.5.1.2.2.6 Correspondence with the Director-General of the State Archives - Commissioner for Archives Protection 3.5.1.2.2.7 German reclaims of archival material 3.5.1.2.2.8 Fugitives from the archives and repatriations 3.5.1.2.2.9 Measures in Alsace/Lorraine 3.5.1.2.2.10 Luxembourg 3.5.1.2.2.11 Inventory and copying of archival documents 3.5.1.2.2.12 Archives National 3.5.1.2.2.13 Ministerial archives 3.5.1.2.2.13.1 War ministry 3.5.1.2.2.13.2 Foreign ministry 3.5.1.2.2.14 Municipal and departmental archives 3.5.1.2.2.15 Rhineland 3.5.1.2.3 Library Protection Section 3.5.1.2.3.1 Bibliothèque Nationale 3.5.1.2.3.2 Institutes and libraries 3.5.1.3 Transport (Group V 1/3) 3.5.2 Justice (Dept. V 2) 3.5.2.1 Administration of Justice and General Legal Matters (Group V 2/1) 3.5.2.1.1 Reports and Human Resources 3.5.2.1.2 Administrative Matters 3.5.2.1.3 International Law and Reprisals 3.5.2.1.4 French legislation, legal assistance and administration 3.5.2.1.5 Criminal matters 3.5.2.1.6 Police measures 3.5.2.2 Economic legal matters (Group V 2/2) 3.5.2.2.1 Seizures and reparations 3.5.2.2.2 Miscellaneous 3.5.3 Finance (Division V 3) 3.5.3.1 Financial management (Group V 3/1) 3.5.3.1.1 Customs and border issues 3.6 Economic divisions 3.6.1 General economic affairs and economic transport (Dept. Wi I) 3.6.1.1 Decrees, daily reports, activity reports 3.6.1.2 Special economic regulations 3.6.1.3 General Affairs and de-Jewification (Group Wi I/1) 3.6.1.3.1 de-Jewification of the economy (Ref. Wi I/1b) 3.6.1.3.2 Fiduciary and auditing activities (Ref. Wi I/1c) 3.6.1.3.2.1 Provisional administration 3.6.1.3.2.2 Audits 3.6.1.4 Fine-tanking assets (group Wi I/2) 3.6.1.5 Statistics (group Wi I/3) 3.6.1.6 Economic transport (group Wi I/4) 3.6.1.7 Order relocation and war risk 3.6.1.8 Black market 3.6.1.9 Business activity in France and Germany 3.6.1.10 Miscellaneous 3.6.2 Commercial economy (Wi II division) 3.6.2.1 ROGES, Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft m.b.H. - Rohstoffeinkauf in Frankreich 3.6.2.2 Mining and coal industry, minerals and earths (Wi II/A group) 3.6.2.2.1 Coal and peat - extraction, planning, management (Ref. Wi II/A/1) 3.6.2.2.1.1 Situation reports 3.6.2.2.1.2 Utilities 3.6.2.2.2.1.3 Price regulation 3.6.2.2.1.4 Statistics 3.6.2.2.2.2 Ore and salt - extraction and management (Ref. Wi II/A/2) 3.6.2.2.3 Stones and earths (Ref. Wi II/A/3) 3.6.2.2.4 Potash (Ref. Wi II/A/4) 3.6.2.2.5 Colonial mining 3.6.2.2.6 Human resources, wages, strikes 3.6.2.2.7 Miscellaneous 3.6.2.3 Petroleum industry (Group Wi II/B) 3.6.3 Food and agriculture (Div. Wi III) 3.6.4 Forestry, hunting and forestry (Div. Wi IV) 3.6.5 Foreign trade, monetary affairs and insurance (Div. Wi V) 3.6.6 Price regulation (Section Wi VI) 3.6.7 Labour input and social services (Section Wi VII) 3.6.7.1 Recruitment of workers to Germany, intra-French labour input (Group Wi VII/B) 3.6.7.1.1 Recruitment of labour to Germany (group Wi VII/B/I) 3.6.7.1.2 Intra-French labour input (group Wi VII/B/II) 3.6.7.2 Social security and wage formation (Group Wi VII/C) 3.6.8 Finance (Dept. Wi VIII) 3.6.8.1 Situation reports 3.6.8.2 General 3.6.8.3 Taxes 3.6.8.4 Housing 4. Military administrative districts 4.1 Military district Paris 4.2 Military district A (North-West France) 4.2.1 Dept. Ia (Operations Division) 4.2.2 Dept. Ic (Defence) 4.2.3 Staff officer of the fieldendarmerie 4.2.4 Abt. IIa (personnel questions) 4.2.5 Quartiermeister 4.2.6 Nachrichtenführer 4.2.7 Abt. III (court) 4.2.8 Abt. IVa (Intendant) 4.2.9 Abt. IVb (medical affairs) 4.3 Military Administrative District B (South-West France) 4.3.1 Division Ia (Operations Division) 4.3.2 Division IIa (Personnel Affairs) 4.3.3 Quartermaster 4.3.4 Intelligence Officer 4.3.5 Division IVa (Intendant) 4.3.6 Miscellaneous 4.4 Military Administrative District C (Northeast France) 4.4.1 Organization 4.4.2 Division Ia (Operations Division) 4.4.3 Division Ic (Defence) 4.4.4 Staff Officer of the Fieldendarmerie 4.4.5 Quartermaster 4.4.6 Division IVa (Intendant) 4.4.7 Pioneers 4.4.8 Miscellaneous 4.5 Commander of the Army Area of Southern France 4.5.1 Division Ia/Gabo (Gas Defense Service) 4.5.2 Quartermaster 4.5.3 Department of Administration and Economics 4.6 Bordeaux Military District State of development: Findbuch Scope, Explanation: 1220 AU Citation method: BArch, RW 35/...