[Complete 2 Part set] Notes on the Military Government of Occupied Territory Part I and Part II (Not to be published)

Issued under the Authority of the Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Forces (Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Alexander)

Published by Printing and Stationery Services, Middle East Forces, (Cairo?), 1942

About this Item

Complete 2-Part set. Very good, foxed, with some pencilled marginalia and faint underlining to Part II. Both are dated 11-42 to the printer's code, at the time of the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, and the Anglo-US occupation of French Morocco and Algeria in Operation Torch. Drawing on experiences administering conquered Italian colonies in Africa, they were issued separately for different staff. PART I: staple-bound, 3-hole punched 10x17cm. (2), 26pp. This is for General Staff officers, and units engaged in occupying enemy territories. A chart shows the "Chain of Responsibility for Military Government of Occupied Enemy Territory". Sections define this government; the nature of occupation (relationship with local population, power and its restrictions etc); aims; organisation; preparations; early stages (proclamations, leading citizens, offices, communications, treasuries, curfew, enemy officials, police, arrest of suspects, contact with tribes, food supplies, requisitioning, labour); treatment of the population (obligations, punishments, reprisals etc) and property. // PART II: staple-bound, 14x21cm, 51pp. An alphabetically arranged set of guidelines dealing with agriculture, air raids, arms, banks, boundaries, censorship, comms, currency, enemy property, economics, education, enemy officials, finance, frontier protection against native raiding, intelligence, labour, land, law, medical, municipalities, police, post, propaganda, property, security, supplies and rationing, rail, roads, telegraphs and telephones, and Trade. Very rare with Worldcat locating to 3 institutions: Australian War Memorial, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh (OCLC 220511231, 29835560).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Complete 2 Part set] Notes on the Military Government of Occupied Territory Part I and Part II (Not to be published)
• Publisher: Printing and Stationery Services, Middle East Forces, (Cairo?)
• Publication Date: 1942
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good