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Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004

SHAEF, General Eisenhower's headquarters moves to prevent word leaking out about deliberate Anglo-American violations of international law, and plans for the surrender


From the Daniel Lerner (Psychological Warfare) papers in the Manuscript Division, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, California: Box 35: "SHAEF, Other Branches"

SECRET

SECRET

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
COMBINED FIELD PRESS CENSORSHIP GROUP (REAR)
APO 413, U. S. ARMY

 

15 February 1945
1130 Hours    

Press Censors' Guidance No. 816
(PCG # 780,28 Jan 45, is CANCELLED).

 

OCCUPATION OF GERMANY

 

    The following are the subjects on which every effort should be made to prevent information falling into the hands of the enemy:

STOP any definite statements concerning --

  1. Surrender terms.
  2. Boundaries of the British, United States and Russian zones.
  3. Categories of arrest,
  4. Special procedure for dealing with Waffen S.S.
  5. The intention to detain all officers of the German General Staff Corps.
  6. The extent of the control which we will exert over all Information Services.
  7. Any other details of counter-intelligence planning.

AUTHORITY: SHAEF (Main)


WHITE PHOSPHORUS BOMBS

STOP:

     All mention of the use of White Phosphorus Bombs as anti-personnel weapons. This is a contravention of the Geneva Conventions.

AUTHORITY:  21 ARMY GROUP

RMH

 

SECRET

 


. . . on this website:

Index to this dossier on Allied bombing strategy
David Irving: Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden (free download)
Sept 14, 1944: JCS minutes that British object to Combined Chiefs of Staff recording their decision that Germany should be bombed for morale purposes
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