Prague

Excerpt from the diary of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov: transcript of a conversation with German Ambassador to the USSR F. von der Schulenburg about the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, rumours of Anglo-Soviet trade talks, and current issues in Soviet-German relations

9 April 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 299, ff. 45–50.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Berlin to the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of foreign military attachés to the transfer of German troops from West to East, the interest of Germans in Eastern Europe, and their possible actions against the USSR and Great Britain (with an attached note from the 5th Red Army Directorate)

11 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 85–93.

Cipher telegram – certified copy, note – original

Summary Intelligence Report of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army № 106 about events in the West: the transfer of Wehrmacht divisions from France and the makeup and deployment of German troops in East Prussia and on the territory of former Poland (with an attached diagram)

2 October 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 33988, ser. 4а, fold. 36, ff. 342–346.

Summary – original, diagram – drawing

Special report of the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army ‘On the areas of development of the German Armed Forces and changes in their makeup’

11 March 1941

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 23, ser. 7237, fold. 2, ff. 21–50.

Certified copy

Information letter from Soviet Ambassador to Germany V. Dekanozov to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about German ideological and factual preparations for war against the USSR

4 June 1941

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 013, ser. 3, box 3, fold. 46, ff. 153–161.

Certified copy