International Tracing Service Child Search Branch: papers relating to 'Lebensborn' (microfilm) 1941-1948

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International Tracing Service Child Search Branch: papers relating to 'Lebensborn' (microfilm) 1941-1948

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1556-wl531a

c415 frames

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Wiener Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6284514

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International Tracing Service

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Lebensborn

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International Tracing Service Child Search Branch

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The origins of the International Tracing Service date back to a 1943 initiative at the Headquarters of the Allied Forces, which enabled the section for International Affairs at the British Red Cross in London to provide this function. Spurred by the need to acquire more precise information about the fate of forced labourers and refugees in Europe, the task was taken over by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces on 15 February 1944. From the end of the war until 30 Jun...