Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services
Extracts from short wave radio broadcasts from Tokyo, Manila, and other affiliated stations, from January 1 to April 1, 1944. Broadcasts included programs covering politics, the military, economics, and social and cultural affairs.
This document contains a list of monuments in Italy arranged by regions, provinces, and towns. Other subjects include periods in history and the Italian authorities for the care of the monuments. The regions listed are Abruzzi, Latium, Le Marche,...
This is the second part to section 17a regarding cultural institutions. It contains information about the care of monuments and a list of monuments by regions, provinces and towns. These include Emilia, Republic of San Marino, Liguria, Lombardy,...
This section only contains a broad summation of the various aspects of government and administration. It details the functional pattern of Japanese government, organization, the legal concept of a municipality, the area of municipalities, residents...
This is a study on education in Germany. Party indoctrination, public education, education of party leaders, and the impact of the war on education are all discussed in this document.
This document focuses on German Christianity and churches under the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), churches under the Nazi regime (1933-1945), church finances, religious education, the clergy, and ecclesiastical statistics.
Discussion of France. This section gives background information beginning before World War I, the war itself and the interwar period, and moves on to money and credit institutions in 1939, the Establishments de credit, Banques d' affaires,...
Discussion of France. This section covers transportation systems, including information on railroads, railways in the Paris area, motor transportation, internal waterways and canals, and civil aviation. Includes notes on communications, maps and...
This is a discussion of the land and people of Japan. Boundaries, area and position, physiography, climate, and regional divisions are detailed. For the people of Japan, information includes population and cultural characteristics (family and sex,...
This document addresses the trade of Japan Proper (including Karafuto) with foreign countries. This includes import and export trade, trade by geographic areas and leading countries, and wartime overseas trade. Second is the trade of Japan Proper...
This Civil Affairs document describes the employment conditions and exchanges, wages/hours/working conditions, labor legislation and policies, labor and employers' organizations, industrial relations, cooperative movement, and social insurance in...
This is a study of the present puppet government in the Philippines. The origins of the government, the constitutional basis upon which it rests, the structural outlines of the Office of President, of the Assembly, and of the Judiciary, the conduct...
Topics in this Civil Affairs document on Japan's cultural institutions include information on the empire of Japan, the "inner circle province", Kyoto, Koyasan, Nara, Tokyo, and important periods in the history of Japan.
This document contains five sections on public welfare in Japan. Part I gives a background introduction on development, philosophy (negative and positive factors), and national income. Second is organization and administration- national and local...
In mineral resources, Japan's position was very poor, and the country became more dependent upon outside sources of supply for most raw materials at the outbreak of the war. This handbook on Japan's natural resources includes information on forest...
The Japanese electric power industry is operated as a semi-governmental monopoly through national policy companies. These companies are owned privately, principally by the old public utility companies, but are very strictly supervised by the...
Description and analysis of the training of officer candidates by the Chemical Warfare Service. It details mission training objectives, content and scope, the organization of field and classwork, educational procedures, the development of the...
The purpose of this status report is to present a comprehensive status of all problems, studies and procedures relating to demobilization and postwar planning, as executed or supervised by the Special Planning Division, War Department Special...
Army Talks was a series of short works published for GIs in the European theater "to help them become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers."This issue covers various issues associated with Normandy, including hedgerow...