Military Agency Records
Holocaust-Era Assets - Military Agency Records
A Finding Aid to Records at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland
Many of the series of military records for the 1917-1962 period are arranged by the War Department Decimal File classification scheme. When encountering series of records arranged by this file system researchers may want to consult a copy of a War Department Decimal File System book, available in the consultation area in Room 2400. The decimals that often relate to the subjects of this finding aid are:
| Decimal | Title |
|---|---|
| 000.4 | Historical (Antiquities, archaeological sites, curios, landmarks, museums, relics, ruins) |
| 000.5 | War Crimes and Criminals |
| 004.2 | Banks and banking |
| 004.7 | Commercial enterprises |
| 007 | Fine Arts |
| 091 | Countries |
| 091.1 | Government |
| 091.11 | Officials |
| 091.3 | Economics |
| 095 | Commercial firms and persons |
| 123 | Funds, money, and savings |
| 291.2 | Race, Jews |
| 314.4 | Captured records |
| 314.7 | Military histories |
| 332.3 | Personal property |
| 334 | Boards, commissions, committee, council, and missions |
| 350.05 | Militaryinformation, collection and dissemination |
| 383 | Conduct of war with relation to commercial firms and persons |
| 383.7 | Refugees |
| 383.8 | Commercial firms, blacklisted, enemy trading, price control, and profiteering |
| 385 | Manner and methods of conducting war |
| 386 | Property Rights involved in war (sometimes used for restitution) |
| 386.3 | Captured property |
| 386.7 | Frozen assets, including funds (sometimes used for reparations) |
| 387 | Terminating war |
| 388 | Preserving peace |
| 400.38 | Relief of destitutes |
| 602 | Disposition of real property or land |
| 602.3 | Transfers of buildings, land, structures, etc. to other departments and states (often used for reparations and restitution) |
