General Directorate of Studies and Investigations : Special Section devoted to Germany Direction generale des etudes et recherches : Section Speciale Allemagne (SSA) (GR 28 P 7)

The collection contains the archives of the SSA and primarily documents the organization and personnel of the German special services (RSHA and Abwehr) during World War II. The archives come from two different sources: 1) the archives “ DALO” from the Bureau of Documention in Germany (Bdoc 9000) and to which the second office gave a classification scheme of two to seven digits beginning with 4, and 2) the archives “K” arranged thematically. The collection includes reports on the German special services and documents pertaining to the Abwehr and the SIPO-SD/ RSHA, collaboration, the Wehrmacht, special units, the SS, the Nazi Party and its organization, resistance to the Allied forces occupying Germany after the war, missing persons, interned persons, transfers and repatriation, people accused of war crimes, concentration and internment camps, surveillance and communications control, anti-Nazi Germans, and the German press.

The records are arranged in the following 18 groups: • Etudes sur les services spéciaux allemands • Abwehr et SIPO-SD • Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) • Abwehr • Collaboration • Wehrmacht • Unités spéciales • Schutzstaffel (SS) • Parti nazi et organisations du parti • Résistance aux allies en Allemagne occupée • Personnes recherchées • Personnes internées • Transferts et rapatriements • Criminels de guerre • Camps de concentrations et camps d’internement • Surveillance et contrôle des communications • Allemands anti-nazis • Presse allemande