Misc: German surrender terms, Tunisia, 1943

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 48
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Misc: German surrender terms, Tunisia, 1943
Date(s)	: 1943
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Maj Gen Köchy, German Air Force, Airfield Regional Command; temporary Maj Gen John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, General Officer Commanding 46 (North Midland and West Riding) Div

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Content

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Photocopy of manuscript letter, in German, from Maj Gen Köchy, German Air Force, Airfield Regional Command, to temporary Maj Gen John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, General Officer Commanding 46 (North Midland and West Riding) Div, surrendering German air troops in Tunisia, North Africa, 13 May 1943; photocopy of reply, in English, from Hawkesworth to Köchy, 13 May 1943. Also includes photocopy of typescript translation of Köchy's request for the acceptance of a German surrender

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German, English

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Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ

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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

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Placed in the Centre in 1993

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Date of compilation: Nov 1999