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Western Europe

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 427 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1944 - 24 Nov 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/254/1
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First report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, General [Henry] Arnold, to the Secretary of War [Henry Stimson], dated 4 January 1944, with sections entitled "Before Pearl Harbor", "Building an Air Force", "Combat Operations", and "The Men". In a presentation binding with an annotated dedication to WSC from Arnold dated 24 November 1945.

Dates: 04 Jan 1944 - 24 Nov 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/254/2
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Second report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, General [Henry] Arnold, to the Secretary of War [Henry Stimson] with sections on the air war against Germany and Japan, research, development, and welfare, and a conclusion. In a presentation binding for WSC.

Dates: 27 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Nov 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/254/3
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Third report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, General [Henry] Arnold, to the Secretary of War [Robert Patterson] with sections on the war in Europe and the Pacific and "Air Power and the Future". In a presentation binding for WSC.

Dates: 12 Nov 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/256/2-61
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Series of photographs of the Western Front as plotted in the Defence Map Room, with dates from 3 March to 4 May 1945. Reproduced by the Air Ministry Photographic Reproductions Branch.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/256/68-71
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Series of photographs of the European Fronts as plotted in the Defence Map Room, with dates from 12 April to 4 May 1945. Reproduced by the Air Ministry Photographic Reproductions Branch.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/216/37-39
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of a telegram [from the British Minister in Sweden, Sir Victor Mallet] to WSC reporting a meeting between Count Folke Bernadotte [Vice-Chairman of the Swedish Red Cross] and Heinrich Himmler [Head of the SS] in which Himmler offered German surrender in Western Europe while continuing the war against the Soviet Union and asserted that Hitler was "desperately ill".

Dates: 25 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/217/55
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] marked "Personal and Secret, also Private" stating his pleasure at Montgomery's advance to Lubeck [Germany] and the news that he is to receive the surrender of General Gunther Blumentritt's Army Group.

Dates: 03 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 05 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/217/88-89
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (San Francisco [United States]) marked "Top Secret" and "personal" reiterating his view that Marshal Stalin, President Harry Truman and he need to meet to prevent "a great catastrophe"; reporting on Marshal Tito's [Premier of Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia)] "breach of faith" over occupying disputed territories in north-east Italy; the Allied...
Dates: 05 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/218/2
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Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Personal" reporting that the situation in Denmark is calm; detailing troops and equipment he has sent there; and stating that he believes that Admiral Karl Doenitz [Head of the German Government] will very soon "surrender everything to the Allies".

Dates: 06 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 26 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/212/30-35
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Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa marked "Top Secret and Personal" summarising the major operational decisions reached at the Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] Conferences: on the U-boat War; operations in North West Europe; strategy in the Mediterranean; operations in the Pacific Area and South East Asia Command; estimating dates for the end of the war against Germany and Japan; and explaining the shipping position. Photocopy.

Dates: 26 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/212/86
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Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "personal and Top Secret" congratulating him on the great victory won by the armies under his command [achieving a bridgehead over the Rhine at Remagan, Germany]. Photocopy.

Dates: 09 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/212/92
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Telegram from General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] to WSC thanking him for the warmth of his congratulations on the latest advances; and explaining how attracting sizable German formations to meet the attack launched by 21st Army Group has left the Germans vulnerable to attack elsewhere. Photocopy.

Dates: 10 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/213A/14-15
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal, Private and Top Secret" requesting he give his personal attention to the matter of [repatriating] British prisoners of war rescued by Soviet Armies; giving details of advances against the Germans in Western Europe; and suggesting that Hitler may try to prolong the war after all North Germany has been conquered.

Dates: 21 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/3-4
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" reporting that Arthur Seyss-Inquart [Reich Commissioner for Occupied Holland] has been in contact with the Dutch Underground Movement offering terms of surrender for German forces in the Netherlands; requesting Eden ascertains the American view on this; if they agree, consults the Soviet Union Foreign Minister [Vyacheslav Molotov]; and indicating that he is...
Dates: 16 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/5-6
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Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating a report of a meeting between Arthur Seyss-Inquart [Reich Commissioner for Occupied Holland] and the Dutch Underground Movement, where Seyss-Inquart offered terms of surrender for German forces in the Netherlands.

Dates: 16 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/13
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Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving details of casualties in the battle for the Rhineland [Germany] and since crossing the Rhine.

Dates: 17 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1945 - 19 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/27
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Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" informing him of the latest plans for Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to take Lubeck [Germany]; the advance to Linz [Austria]; and for the Americans to take the region south of Stuttgart [Germany] where the main German "TA" [Tube Alloy, the atomic bomb] research is concentrated. Despatched on 19 April.

Dates: 18 Apr 1945 - 19 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/40-41
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador in the United States] marked "Personal and Top Secret" on several matters which require "very quick handling": the need for a decision to be taken on the situation in the Netherlands; the issuing of a warning to the Germans on their treatment of prisoners of war; Eisenhower's invitation to British and American politicians and the press to view...
Dates: 19 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/46-49
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Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "Personal and Private" repeating the text of a statement from Dr Pieter Gerbrandy [Prime Minister of the Netherlands] on the food shortages and other problems in Western Holland and indicating the Netherlands Government's attitude towards military action against the Germans; and WSC's reply stating that he is putting the matter into Eisenhower's hands.

Dates: 19 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/51-53
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador in the United States] marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of a statement from Dr Pieter Gerbrandy [Prime Minister of the Netherlands] on the food shortages and other problems in Western Holland and indicating the Netherlands Government's attitude towards military action against the Germans; and WSC's reply stating that he is putting...
Dates: 20 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Apr 1945 - 21 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/77-78
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Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] to WSC agreeing with him concerning the importance of the Western Allies taking Lubeck [Germany] and Linz [Austria], and hoping they can take Prague [Czechoslovakia, later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; and reporting conversations with General George Marshall [Chief of Staff United States Army] in which he emphasised the difficulties of attacking the Japanese mainland. Despatched on 21 April. Copy.

Dates: 20 Apr 1945 - 21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/101
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Top Secret" emphasising that in order to assist the Netherlands [through the neutralisation of the German Army in the Western Netherlands] they must act quickly and send instructions to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army]; and indicating that Eden should try to persuade Edward Stettinius [Secretary of State,...
Dates: 21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945 - 22 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/102
Scope and Contents Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" stating that although the Americans initially argued that the Soviet Union should be consulted on responding to a possible truce with the German Army in the Western Netherlands, they have subsequently recommended that General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] be instructed to take the matter...
Dates: 21 Apr 1945 - 22 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/174/47
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] marked "Top Secret" requesting casualty figures for the 21st Army Group from the fall of Brussels or Antwerp [both Belgium] if more convenient.

Dates: 03 Nov 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/174/49
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Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting that facilities are provided for Dr Pieter Gerbrandy [Prime Minister of the Netherlands] in the 21st Army Group area.

Dates: 03 Nov 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.