German Military Communications

RF-SS Komando Stab - Police Nachrichten Abt. 10 (dates?)

Police Regiment Nord -

German Police/SS message traffic was intercepted and decoded by the British. It was decoded by the Playfair Section at Bletchley Park(Hut 6). The transmissions were intercepted by the British Army Y-Station at Beaumanor and P.C. Cadix/P.C Bruno while France was not occupied. The various keys used by the Police/SS were named after fruits.

Message flow: Hut 3 to Hut 6. Hut 3 did the decrypt. Hut 6 did the translation an analysis.

Orange I/II/III were SS admin, Waffen, and Calvary keys.

Quince

TQD was the Gestapo/RuSHA/SD key and never broken by the British. The Poles broke it for awhile.

Playfair Weekly Summary. Not Enigma. Police used this.

Also of interest would be Vulture. Pearl also included Police traffic. It was later renamed Pinup.

NARAII - Box list - (Searched) RG 457 - Box 1006Temp folder - has Pearl Harbor warning and status of decrypts report Crypto terms in use with Abwehr & SD. - Sounds interesting but ... well writen with dry humor Interviews with POWS - Germany 1945 - Crypto RTC Circuits - Pacific area - Fish Notes by Small - 1944 - Signal Security Agency Report 1944 - Directory of ECM Equipment - Copperhead Tech Manual - TTY Diagrams - Chapter 9 - History of Comm ... - History of Jap T/A Sec Pt 2 - History of Traffic Indentifiers - History of American Central Org, 1945 - etc...

Box 174 - Almost all Luftwaffe except for 1 Playfair

Box 1386 - Folder - German WWII Police and SS Traffic. At the back it has a list of SS/ORPO names, abreviation list. A mixed bag of mundane, locations and murders. Folder - CBB Monthly Progress Report Part I and II, Apr 1944 (All Japanese) - Capt. Wenger Memos on Bombe project and inhouse org memos - japanese "Self-Evident" Jargon and Signal Terms - Italian Comm Org SIS - Instructions for Operating a German Radio-telephone in English -

Example: Playfair Weekly Summary

Example: FISH Report

Example: RF-SS Komando Stab Message mentioning use of cipher for PB 11

Example: RF-SS Kommando Stab Message

NARAII - Notes for researching. Nice site. Do not bring any books, paper etc. PC, scanner, camera ok. Need a reader card. Very tight security. It can cost a lot to print. It was .50 a page in the SS room. The text research floor (2) which has the decrypts has a .25 per page copy fee. 8/08. The map room, for WWII, is not so great. The maps are on transparencies and are mostly unreadable.

The finders guide for the RG 457 (4 volumes) record group is, well better than useless, but not a lot more. Hanyok's guide is the best there is. Prof. Brietman's book is helpful. The series on British Intelligence inWorld War II are sketchy. I have Vol I and II. You get about 12 pages of useful information. That is it as far as I know.

I have looked at what is listed above. The boxes that were mentioned an a few others. I listed below what I found. Oh, the staff has no clue what is in those boxes (500 cubic feet worth). The problem is the Finders Guide only lists named folders as far as I can tell. Not all the folders are named. Also it looks like the NSA just threw documents and folders into boxes. One box will contain Japanese shipping crypto, memos about organizing the British staff, parts list for crypto machines, and Luftwaffe reports.

Police Unit Call Signs -

PB 9 = SRQ1,

RF-SS = DQX

http://cryptocellar.org/

Very cool site for Enigma/WWII plus has simulators

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/

http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/

and for his blog: http://rijmenants.blogspot.com/