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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2008
1. Quoted in Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945, Series D, 1 (Washington, D.C., 1949), vii (General Introduction).
2. For an index to the holdings of the German Foreign Office Archives and to those documents which were microfilmed see American Historical Association, A Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1867–1920 (Washington, D.C., 1959)Google Scholar, and Kent, George O., ed., A Catalog of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920–1945 (Stanford, Calif, 1962–Google Scholar; three of the four planned volumes have been published).
3. For a full account of how the documents were obtained and how the commission was initially set up, see the General Introduction in Documents, Series D, I.
4. French and German editions of the series were also begun. The French edition is an abridged version.
5. At this time the German edition of the documents had been completed only through Series D, VII.
6. The Special Film will not be made available to scholars until publication of the series for the entire period 1918–45 is completed. Raymond Sontag has criticized the failure of the Commission to make it available in “The German Diplomatic Papers: Publication after Two World Wars,” American Historical Review, LXVIII (1962–1963), 67–68.
7. The leader is Dr. Vincent Kroll. Inquiries about the project should be addressed to: Dr. Vincent Kroll, Geschäftsführende Leiter der deutschen Editorengruppe, Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts, 53 Bonn, Adenauerallee 99–103.
