The detailed interrogation reports include sketches, organizational charts, maps, and transcripts. The reports relate to information obtained from prisoners-of-war from Nazi Germany that were held by the U.S. during and after World War II. Information about the prisoners may include their names, ranks, units, dates and places of capture, dates and places of interrogation, an evaluation of their reliability, and a summary of their prewar and wartime activities.
Major topics of the reports include the organization, personnel, activities, and facilities of German military, government, industrial, and Nazi Party agencies and institutions; defenses and fortifications; weapons, weapons systems, and weapons development; transportation networks; and life in Germany and occupied countries.
Other topics include German prisoner-of-war camps; the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; the Dachau Concentration Camp; photograph reconnaissance and interpretation; the use of artillery by the U.S. and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Allied jamming of German radar; medical intelligence and military medicine; German inventions; the National Redoubt; the Transocean News Agency; possible candidates for a postwar German government; and the possibilities of postwar resistance.
The series also includes transcripts of conversations between and among former high-ranking military officers of Nazi Germany. Information about the officers includes their names, ranks, secret numbers, former units, and dates and places of capture.
