German WWII documents - digitized / available online

Dear Mr. Forster,

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Most of the WWII German captured documents in our custody exist on microfilm as part of Record Group (RG) 242 -- National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized. The originals were sent back to Germany during the 1950s & 1960s. None of the RG 242 microfilm has been digitized at this time. A listing of all of the microfilm is available at https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/foreign-records-seized.html

There are various German records in Record Group 260 -- Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II and other record groups. The German records that were microfilmed as part of the Holocaust-Era Assets microfilming project (from 2001-2010) were digitized by fold3 and available on that web site or through the International Research Portal at https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/international-resources/nara. The National Archives will receive the digital images from fold3 in the next few years. A list of these microfilm publications are located at https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/microfilm-publications.

In the 1990s, the National Archives received records from the Berlin Document Center. A small percentage of these records remain classified.

We hope that this information is useful.