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Who’s Who in Germany and Austria Parts 1 & 2 is a very rare Allied Counter Intelligence handbook (actually two books in one binder), dated 31 March 1945 assembled and supplied to American Counter-Intelligence Officers to prepare them for the impending surrender and occupation of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. It provided the intended reader with an overview of the organization of the Nazi government, the Nazi Party, its paramilitary and affiliated organizations, and a great deal of other very useful information that people ‘on the ground’ in Europe in early 1945 were just becoming familiar with.

The extent of American understanding of the complex political and military structure of Nazi Germany becomes very obvious when reading this very obscure 78 year old English language publication.

The entire restricted book corrected to 31 March 1945 is very well written in the English language by experts who translated much of the substance from obscure Nazi publications of the time, and from debriefings spies and German POWs. The text is NOT cold, dry statistics, but extremely in-depth explanations of the amazingly well-organized country of Germany and its occupied territories.

This is a very late-war Fifth Edition; an expanded version of the publication previously titled Who’s Who in Nazi Germany. In the Introductory Note to this edition there is a line that says that the information in it may be used without restriction, but the source of the information must never be quoted.

The alphabetical directory includes names such as Adolf Hitler, Hitler Youth Leader Arthur Axmann, Reichsleiter SS-Gruppenführer Philipp Bouhler, Luftwaffe General Friedrich Christiansen, Dr. Leonardo Conti, Head of the Nazi Ordnungspolizei SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Daluege, Reichsstatthalter SS-Obergruppenführer August Eigruber, Munich Lord Mayor Karl Fiehler, SS-Obergruppenführer Karl-Hermann Frank, Nazi Minster of Economics Dr. Walter Funk, Nazi Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering (“successor designate to Hitler”), RAD leader Konstantin Hierl, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, famous actor Emil Jannings, famous conductor Hans Karajan, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Field Marshal von Kleist, State Minister Dr. Hans Lammers, Nuremberg Lord Mayor Willy Liebel, State Minister Dr. Otto Meissner, Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath, Postal Minister Dr. Wilhelm Ohnesorge, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, SS und Polizeiführer Hans Rauter, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, Luftwaffe General Rüdel, Hitler’s adjutant Julius Schaub, Security Chief Walter Schellenberg, Reichskommissar of Occupied Holland SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Artur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi Armament Minister architect Albert Speer, Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger, SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner, industrialist Friedrich Karl Siemens, industrialist Dr.-Ing. Günther Quandt (first husband of Magda Goebbels), composer Richard Strauss, Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler, German Ambassador to the Vatican Dr. Weizsäcker, Franz Hermann Woweries (editor of the Nazi Schulungsbrief magazine), SS und Polizeiführer (Prince) Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont and dozens and dozens more. Just the people the Allies expected to capture, interrogate and incarcerate (or execute).

The completely original binding of this 7-7/8 x 10-1/4 inch hardcover example of Who’s Who in Germany and Austria is of the “shoestring” type so that obsolete pages could be removed if necessary and replaced with updated supplements. The original sturdy dark blue leatherette covers are in very nice condition, and the original paper covers of Part 1 and Part 2 are in excellent condition and still bear their restricted serial numbers 2649 and 3510.

Who’s Who in Germany and Austria Part 1 contains a great deal of comprehensive information about the organization and administrative structure of the government of Nazi Germany and its occupied territories as well as the Nazi Party, its military, paramilitary and affiliated organizations, the German army, civilian service ranks (Gauleiter, Obergruppenführer, Reichsstatthalter, for example), abbreviations (AO, BdM, NSFK, SS, SD, WHW, for example), technical terms, place names in their original language, etc.

Who’s Who in Germany and Austria Part 2 contains a very extensive alphabetical directory of German Third Reich personalities from A to Z - SS-Standartenführer Otto Abetz, the German Ambassador to the Pétain government in France, to Dr. Zimdars, the Chairman of the NSV.

The often-missing 13-¼ x 23-½ inch fold-out called Table of Comparative Ranks in the German Civil Service is included as it should be attached inside the back cover of Who’s Who in Germany and Austria Part 1, but is not an original. It is a very fine copy (better than any actual original) made from an original in our archive but on modern paper to complete the book. And hundreds of other pages!

A rare 1945 Allied Counter Intelligence handbook in little-used conditon. No odor.