East Prussia

Excerpt from the diary of Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky about the situation on the Western Front, the war at sea, and the reasons for the passivity of conflicting parties

24 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 017а, ser. 1, box 2, fold. 7, ff. 294–296v.

Copy

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union about the creation of the Baltic Military District and the start of activities for preparing its territory for a possible war

17 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 19, fold. 71, ff. 238–238v.

Copy

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the basic principles of the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the West and East in 1940 and 1941

[July 1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 239, ff. 1–37.

Original

Report from Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army I. Smorodinov to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about a conversation with German military attaché in the USSR E. Köstring regarding the demobilisation of German troops and their redeployment in East Prussia and former Poland

9 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1305, f. 438.

Original

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

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army K. Meretskov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party regarding their conclusions about the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1941

14 October 1940

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 242, ff. 84–90.

Original

Transcripts of conversations of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov with А. Hitler and German Foreign Minister J. von Ribbentrop about international politics and Soviet-German cooperation

12–13 November 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 297, ff. 12–18, 19–29, 66–90, 91–105.

Original and copies

Directive of the Wehrmacht High Command № 21 ‘Version “Barbarossa”’

18 December 1940

Bundesarchiv

BArch RM 7/962 Bl. 209–217.

Original

Directive of А. Hitler № 21 ‘Operation Barbarossa’, presented by former Wehrmacht General A. Jodl to the Commission of Major General N. Trusov, accompanied by a cover letter from the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army of 2 June 1945

18 December 1940

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 58, fold. 460, ff. 1, 3–9.

Copy. Russian translation.

Cover letter – original.