UNITED NATIONS - War Crimes Commission

UNITED NATIONS ARCHIVES

PREDECESSOR ARCHIVES GROUP

UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION

1943 - 1949

PAG-3/Rev. 1, 1987

INTRODUCTION

HIS'IDRY AND ORGANIZATION

The United Nations War Crimes commissio~ was established on
20 October 1943 by a meeting of Government representatives of seventeen
of the Allied Nations,~ including all of the major powers except the
U.S.S.R.lI at the Foreign Office in London. The first official meeting
was held on 11 January 1944, and the Commission continued its work
actively until the end of March 1948.

The Commission engaged in formulating and implementing general
measures necessary to ensure the detection, apprehension, trial and
punishment of persons accused of war crimes. It also performed valuable
advisory functions in connection with the development of principles of
international law and planning for international tribunals. Its terms of
reference were as followsz

(i) To collect, investigate and record evidence of
war crimes, identifying where possible the
individuals responsible.

(ii) To report to the Government concerned cases
where the material available appeared to
disclose a prima facie case.

(iii) To act as a Committee of Legal Experts charged
with advising the Governments concerned upon
matters of a technical nature, such as the
sort of tribunals to be employed in the trial
of war criminals, the law to be applied, the
procedure to be adopted and the rules of
evidence to be followed.

~ For a more detailed account of the organizational
structure and the operating procedures of the UNWCC see History
of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development
of the Laws of War, compiled by the UNWCC (London, His
Majesty's Stationery Officer, 1948).
~/ Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia,
France, Greece, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United
States, Yugoslavia. South Africa was only involved in the
setting up of the Commission, subsequently, it did not
participate in its workings. Denmark joined the Commission as
a full member in July 1945. Apart from these two changes the
composition of the Commission did not change during its
lifetime.
11 The Soviet Union did not become a member, and
therefore, did not submit any charges.

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History and organization

In carrying out the function under (ii) the Commission was
assisted by National Offices established by each of the constituent
members. Formal charges against alleged or suspected war criminals were
submitted to the Commission by the National Offices, along with the
supporting data and a description of evidence available. It was then the
responsibility of the Commission to determine whether there appeared to
be sufficient evidence to warrant the listing of persons charged as
criminals in order that they might be detained and prosecuted by the
member governments. In the performance of this function the Commission
examined charges involving approximately 37,000 individuals.

The War Crimes Commission took no part in the detention of
persons listed, or in the prosecution of the cases.

The function of the Commission under (iii) was to formulate
recommendations for the guidance of governments. Through a number of
recommendations the Commission influenced the development of
international law in such questions as jurisdiction, extradition,
belligerent occupation, personal responsibility for acts of State, the
criminality of aggressive war and the protection of human rights of civil
populations against violations by their own governments. The
law-reporting activities of the Commission are a valuable source of
information on State practice regarding the repression of crimes against
peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and constituted an
important preliminary step in the development and codification of these
branches of international law.

When the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and
Tokyo, as well as the municipal and occupation courts of its member
governments, started to function and trials of war criminals were
actually being conducted on a considerable scale, the Commission made
arrangements for the collection and examination of the records of these
trials.

The Commission's first Chairman was Sir Cecil Hurst of the
United Kingdom who was followed in January 1945 by Lord Wright of Durley,
Australia's representative in the Commission. The post of
Secretary-General was held originally by Hugh McKinnon Wood, in November
1945, Col. G.A. Ledingham succeeded him.

The Commission established three main committeesl

Committee I, the Committee on Facts and Evidence, was to
examine the charges filed by the member governments (National
Offices) and to prepare and issue lists of war criminals for
the different apprehending authorities in order that they
might take the necessary action.

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History and Organization

committee II, was concerned with "Enforcement", a term
which comprised all measures considered necessary to ensure
the detection, apprehension, trial and punishment of persons
guilty of or responsible for war crimes. The recommendations
of this Committee influenced not only the creation of the
Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, but also the
establishment of the many other international and
inter-allied military tribunals including the International
Military Tribunal for the Far East. In the course of time
the duties of Committee II were assumed either by Committee I
or Committee III.

Committee III, the Legal Committee, was to advise on
legal questions. Owing to the significance of many of the
legal questions which were subsequently examined, the
Commission's advisory function tended, in the course of time,
to exceed in importance its original task of investigation.

Questions of substantive law and particular charges brought
before the Commission by the National Offices ranged from the definition
of a war crime, superior orders, and military necessity, to usurpation of
sovereignty.

In order to deal with Far Eastern problems, the Commission
adopted a proposal by the Chinese Ambassador to establish a Far Eastern
and Pacific Sub-Commission in Chungking (eventually moved to Nanking) as
a branch of the UNWCC. It held its inaugural meeting on 29 November
1944. The Sub-Commission set up two sub-committees I a Finance Committee
and a Committee on Facts and Evidence. The minutes of its meetings were
regularly transmitted to the main Commission in London. Up to March 1947
it had held 38 meetings.

Other committees of the main Commission were the Far Eastern
Committee, the Public Relations Committee, the Finance Committee, the
Executive Committee and the Legal Publications Committee.

In May 1944 the Commission established a Research Office
charged with the task of tracing some of the most notorious forms of
systematized war crimes to their source, i.e. to compile documentary
evidence on the German authorities and departmental chiefs responsible
for directing organisations under which war crimes were committed. Thus,
in close collaboration with the National Offices, prima facie cases
against leading German officials were often established on the basis of a
single decree or proclamation published in the German-controlled press of
an occupied territory. Another part of the Research Office's work
consisted in meeting requests for information and to arrange for the
publications of the Commission.

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RECORDS

The records of the War Crimes Commission in the United Nations
Archives consist of: minutes, documents and reports of the Commission
and its Committees, the Research Office, and the Far Eastern and Pacific
Sub-Commission, periodical lists of War criminals, Suspects, Witnesses
(including approximately 37,000 names) and related material of the main
Commission and of the Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission, and
correspondence, mainly with various National Offices. The more
voluminous part of the documentation of the War Crimes Commission are
records submitted by Member Governments, other National Authorities and
Military Tribunals: some 8,000 charge files and related material from
Australia to Yugoslavia, periodical lists of about 37,000 War Criminals,
Suspects and Witnesses, reports of National Military Tribunals,
transcripts of proceedings and documents of the International Military
Tribunal for the Far East. Finding Aids in the form of indexes are part
of the above enumerated records.

The War Crimes Commission destroyed a part of its records,
mostly administrative files, which were considered to be of no historical
value. Most documents held by the Research Office, which had been
received from government departments in London, were returned to the
respective ministries. Records of the following committees did not reach
the UN Archives and their whereabouts are not known. Far Eastern
Committee of the Main commission, Public Relations Committee, Finance
Committee, Executive Committee, Legal Publications Committee and two
sub-committees of the Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission.

Even though the documents of the Commission and its Committees,
per se, constitute only a small part of the total size of this archives
group, they provide insight into the organizational structure of the
Commission and its many and varied activities. A prominent example,
documented in 15 volumes, are the Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals
which contain summaries of the trials and a comment on each case prepared
by the UNWCC Secretariat. The constitutional and working relationship
between the War Crimes Commission and the UN Secretariat, especially in
the fields of human rights and codification and development of
international law, is also documented in two small registry files
(RAG-l/Boxes 62 and 95). Mimeographed documents (C 201-C 226,
May-September 1946) are contained in a file of the Legal Office
(DAG-3/Box 18, "C.A. Stavropoulos papers").

Related to the records of the War Crimes Commission are copies
of documents and transcripts of proceedings of the International Military
Tribunal and of twelve trials known as the "Subsequent proceedings" held
at Nuremberg from November 1946 to April 1949. These mimeographed
reference materials are in the custody of the United Nations Library.

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Revised Rules for Access to Records
of the United Nations War crimes Commission */
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1. Subject to the following restrictions and to normal
administrative controls, all archives of the UNWCC are available to any
person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Chief of the Archives
Section, to be engaged in serious research in the history of the
Commission or in related problems in international law or associated
fields.

2. The following records are not available for inspection and use
except as specified in rule 3 belowl

(a) Those parts of the minutes and documents of the Commission
and its Committees and of the Research Office "Documents"
that refer to specified individuals charged or suspected of
war crimes.

(b) The list of war criminals, suspects and witnesses, and
related indexes, and the formal charges and related papers.

3. The records described in rule 2 above include unsubstantiated
information and hearsay evidence which may not have been submitted to
judicial process. Access to these records will nevertheless be granted,
on the conditions described below, for the purposes ofl

(a) official research into and investigation and
prosecution of war crimes by Governments, and

(b) bona fide research by individuals into the history and
work of the UNWCC and into war crimes,

on the understanding that, in granting access, the United Nations
Secretariat is acting in a purely administrative capacity under these
rules and it in no way engages the responsibility of the United Nations.

(a) Official research into and investigation and prosecution of
war crimes by Governments.

States requesting access for these reasons should address a
written request to the Secretary-General of theUni±.ed-Na.t.ions
specifying (i) the purpose for which information is requested
and (ii), where information is sought on individuals, the names
of any persons on whom information is sought. It is understood
that, where information is sought on individuals, the rules of
the State concerned regarding protection of materials in
criminal investigations will be applied to the materials made
available by the Secretariat from the UNWCC records. Where
copies of materials are requested by a Government, a fee will be
charged to cover the costs of reproducing the materials
requested.

rr: Original rules established in 1949 and revised in November 1987.

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(b) Bona fide research by individuals into the history and work
of the UNWCC and into war crimes.
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(i) An appli~ation for access by an individual will be
accepted by the Secretary-General when it is transmitted on the
approved form, pursuant to such rules as the Government
concerned may prescribe, by the Permanent Representative or
Permanent Observer of the State of which the applicant is a
national or permanent resident. An application, when submitted
to the Government concerned, should be accompanied by an
appropriate introduction from an institution of higher learning
or research or from a relevant professional society. When
considering whether to transmit an application, the Government
concerned will pay due regard to the nature of the materials
involved and the use to which such materials may be put.

(ii) The approved form may be obtained from the Chief
Archivist of the United Nations. The form requires the
applicant to give undertakings to observe the terms on which
access is granted, and provides that payment of fees, as from
time to time established, will be required to cover the
administrative costs and services involved.

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"A": believed to be a clear prima facie case
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"S": -regarded as "suspects" rather than "accused"
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6 Dec.1943 "C" - Nos. C 1 - C 267 34-35
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10 I Nov.1949 Index to the documents of the Research Office, 36/
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Aug.1945 Document Series
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Nov.1946 Nos. 1 - 53 (incomplete)

Ju1.l944 Summaries of information
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Dec.1947 Nos. 1 - 55 (2 files)

11 I Jul.1945 Weekly Bulletins (Lists of documents received in the 37/
Feb.1948 Research Office) Nos. 1 - 124

Nov.1945 Staffs of the German Concentration Camps
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Feb.1946 (Vol. I - X, printed, bound)

I. Auschwitz - Birkenau
II. Buchenwald
III. Dachau
IV. Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Mauthausen-Gusen
V. Natzwei11er
VI. Oranienberg - Sachsenhausen
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IX. Supplements to Lists II, III, IV, VII and
VII of this series
X. Officials mentioned in UNWCC Records
including those on the "White List"

12 Dec.1946 Index to War Crimes News Digest
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Jan.1950 Nos. I - XXXVI

Oc t. 1945 War Crim~s News Digest (News Summaries)
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Mar.1948 Nos .; I - XXXVI

20 Jan. Lists of files received from the British War Crimes 37/
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Development and its Committees and Sub-Committees
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1942 Committee on Rights of Accused - Reports and Notes

Allied Military Forces 37/

1945 Basic Handbook. KLS (Konzentrationslager) Axis
Concentration Camps and Detention Centres, G-2
(Counter-Intelligence Sub-Division), Supreme
Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF),
(compiled by MIRS, printed, bound)

Mar.1944 The German Police (SHAEF) (compiled by MIRS, 37/
mimeographed, bound)

Oct.1944 Germany Basic Handbook, Part III, Nazi Occupied 37/
Europe (printed, bound)

1945-1949 Military Government Gazette. Germany, 37/
21 Army Group Area of Control,
Nos. 2 - 3

14 Military Government Gazette. Germany. 38/
British Zone of Control,
Nos. 4 - 27

1947-1947 I Manual for Trial of War Crimes and Related Cases 38/
(prepared by Deputy Theater Judge Advocate's Office,
War Crimes Group USFET)

Dachau Concentration Camp (Report prepared by the 7th 38/
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Belgium

14 1945-1945 Les Crimes de Guerre 38/

Czechoslovakia

Sep.1948 German Crime Against Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak I 38/
Official Report for the prosecution and trial of the
German Major War Criminals by the International
Military Tribunal established according to the
Agreement of the Four Great Powers of August 8, 1945,
London

Ethiopia 38/

La Civilisation de l'Italie Fasciste en Ethiopie
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Greece

1946-1946 Atrocites Bulgares En Grece 38/

Poland

Dec.1945 German Crimes against Poland: Official Report of the I 38/
Polish Government to be submitted to the
International Military Tribunal

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1946-1946 Vol. I 38/
1947-1947 Vol. II

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Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich W. Polsce,
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1945-1945 Italian Crimes in Yugoslavia 38/

1945-1945 Summary of First Six Reports of the State Commission 38/
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40,000 cards, bearing reference to Periodical Lists
and to Charge Files - 2 Filing Cabinets

Indexes to Periodical Lists of Albanian.
Bulgarian. German. Hungarian. Italian. Japanese and
Rumanian War Criminals. Suspects and Material Witnesses
(arranged in numerical order. containing approximately
37.000 names. mimeographed. bound)

16 Ju1.1946 Alphabetical Index Periodical Lists of 391
Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Italian and
Rumanian War Criminals Nos. 1 - 40
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17 Aug.1949 Alphabetical Index to Periodical Lists of 391
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19 I Mar.1946 28 - 50 (Nos. 33 - 37 and 46 - 49 27-28
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20 Dec.1946 51 - 65 28-29
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21 I Jan.1948 66 - 80 (Nos. 68 - 77 listed by the 29/
May.1948 Far Eastern and Pacific
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Jul.1946 Approval and correction of the above lists by 39/
Apr.1948 representatives of the National Offices
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22 Mar.1947 Annotations to lists Nos. 7 and 9 40/
(German War Criminals holding
key positions) (3 files)

Aug.1945 Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission lists of War 40/
Mar.1947 Criminals and Material Witnesses (Japanese)
Lists Nos. 1 - 26 (Nos. 22 - 23 missing)

23 Nov.1945 Committee I Detention Circulars. Nos. 1 - 53 40/
Apr.1947 (containing information on detained persons who
appear to be identical with suspected war criminals,
or witnesses of war crimes)

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May 1947 German General Officers 40/
Sep .1947 Investigation and findings re: possible charges
against Senior German Prisoners of War proposed
for release by the British (correspondence and lists)

List of Germans holding key positions, draft list of S.S. 40/
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Nominal Roll of Prisoners of War, members
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31 Dec.1947 Yugoslav Nationals appearing on UNWCC lists 40/

Lists of Persons wanted by Yugoslavia and categorised
as "A" cases by countries other than Yugoslavia

1947 Priority Lis ts 40/
(correspondence and lists - 2 files)

1947 Miscellaneous Correspondence Re: Persons Listed 40/
List number, current location, identification and
other investigation of listed War Criminals
(correspondence with National Offices)

Feb .1948 Nominal Rolls of Alleged War Criminals Wanted by Member 40/
Governments (of prisoners of war held in the
Middle East) (List submitted by the Foreign Office)
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Box No. PERIOD Reel/Code
ANNOTATIONS

Correspondence with National Offices regarding cases, I 41/
consisting primarily of transmittals for war crimes
lists and acknowledgement thereof. However, it also
includes clarification of facts andstatus of cases,
requests for changes in information, decisions on cases
and notification of adjournment of cases (arranged by
National Offices in alphabetical order)

24 1944-1948 Australia - Netherlands 41/

25 1944-1948 Norway - Yugoslavia 41/

26 May 1946 Trial of alleged German War Criminals by British 41/
Apr.1948 Authorites - Results, sentences, release, further status,
extradition (Correspondence, mainly by cable with
EXFOR BOAR/War Crimes Group, HQ. BOAR)

Jan.1947 Correspondence, mainly with the UN Division on Human 41/
Feb.1949 Rights, especially re: collection and dissemination of
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trials of war criminals, transfer of UNWCC personnel and
cooperation between the two offices
Herein: Ultimate custody of the archives
of the UNWCC

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Note:

These formal charges of Member Governments and
related material usually consist of a 4-page form and
supporting documentation which provide the following
information: registered number; date of receipt in the
UNWCC Secretariat; charge number of the accusing
government; name(s) of accused; military rank and unit,
or name or other official position; date and place of
alleged crime; number and description of crime in war
crime list; summary statement of facts; particulars of
alleged crime and supporting evidence; notes on the case
in regard to the culpability of the accused and
completeness of the case; and names of persons
transmitting the information. Often there are
statements by victims or witnesses in support of the
charge, or references to published sources. In
addition, the file cover indicates the date on which the
case was submitted to the Secretariat and decisions of
Committee I as to whether it was an "A", "C", "s" or "W"
case (see explanatory note under PAG-3/l.l.0.).

Cases apply to either one or several accused.
The files are arranged by Member Governments (Countries)
making the charge and numerically, according to
UNWCC registered number.

See also Commission, Correspondence, PAG-3/l.3.

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Registers of Charge Files, showing Serial, Registration and
National Office Numbers; dates and names of accused
(chronologically arranged, bound)

145 Feb.1944 Volumes 1 - 3 32/
Apr.1946
146 Apr.1946 Volumes 4 - 6 32/
Feb.1948
Jan.1945 Volumes 7 - Pacific Theater of War 32/
Apr.1946

Belgium vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

27 1 - 55 1/
28 56 - 149 1/
29 150 - 229 1/
30 230 - 325 1-2
31 326 - 399 2/

Canada vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

32 1 - 11 2/

China vs. Germans

Registered No.:

1 2/

Czecholovakia vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

33 1 - 47 3/
34 48 - 143 3/
35 144 - 246 3/

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Czechoslovakia vs. Hungarians

Registered Nos.:

36 1 - 8 3/

Denmark vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

1 - 186, 192 4/
Herein: Statements concerning
Danish War Criminals Cases
5714 - 5760, 7678 - 7682

Ethiopia vs. Italians

Registered Nos.:

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France VB. Germans

Registered Nos.:

37 1 - 59 4/
38 60 - 120 4/
39 121 - 180 4/
40 181 - 239 5/
41 241 - 333 5/
42 334 - 409. 5/
43 411 - 499' ./>" 5/
44 500 - 566 . ··:}"I 5-6
45 I 567 - 649 '!:~,~$j 6/
46 650 - 732~:;;". 6/
47 733 - 803 ~;i~~:~i" 6/
48 ..804 - 880 'iii""' 6/
49 881 - 975 7/
50 976 - 1061 7/
51 1062 - 1131 7/
52 1132 - 1184 7/
53 1185 - 1268 7/

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Registered Nos.:

54 1269 - 1338 7-8
55 1339 - 1444 81 I
56 1446 - 1562 81 I
57 1563 - 1640 81 i
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58 1641 - 1720 8/ I

59 1721 - 1799 91 I
60 1800 - 1876 91
61 1877 - 1970 91
62 1972 - 2055 91
63 2056 - 2129 9-10 i

64 2130 - 2189 101 !
65 2190 - 2231 10/

France vs. Italians

Registered Nos.:
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Greece vs. Albanians

Registered No.:

66 1 10/
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Greece vs. Bulgarians

Registered Nos.:

1 - 125 10 I
67 126 - 199 10-11

Greece v~. Germans

Registered Nos.:

68 1 - 93 11/
69 94 - 179 111

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Registered Nos.:

70 1 - 131 111

Greece vs. Rumanians

Registered No.:

1 111

Luxembourg vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

71 1 - 71 111
72 72 - 97 111

Netherlands vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

73 1 - 27 121
74 28 - 79 121
75 80 - 150 121
76 153 - 238 121
77 239 - 300 12-13
78 I
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I 79 I 369 - 444 131
80 445 - 510 131
81 511 - 584 13

Norway vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

82 ~
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Poland vs. Germans

Registered Nos.:

83 1 - 45 141
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85 111 - 177 141
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