Police

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

which consisted in the first instance of agents (Police and Wardens, etc.) reporting to local Centres. …

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

guard killed by covering fire from West Berlin police), and an East German border pillbox covering the … Whole file Textual Incident involving Yugoslav police and Kevin Keegan at Belgrade airport FCO 33/2529 … West Berlin, has been arrested by East German police on charges of exfiltration after trying to bring … in West Berlin, has been jailed by East German police on charges of exfiltration after trying to bring … Soviet press FCO 33/264 31-32 Visual Photographs of police officers patrolling West German border FCO 33/265 …

By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …

organization which had little to do but practice and police blackout violations began to chafe on some ratepayers … from bombing (Overy 2013). On September 4, 1940, a police report from the East End recorded “no sign of panic … Assistant Commissioner, No. 3 District, Metropolitan Police], report, September 4, 1940 [4]. 13 HO 199/103 … Assistant Commissioner, No. 3 District, Metropolitan Police], report, September 4, 1940 [3]. 12 HO 199/390 … as can be judged was good,” while Warwickshire police reports remarked on the “high morale” of evacuees …

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

while gradually curtailing the power of the secret police; 1962 was “a year of consolidation and compromise …

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

hints that perhaps Anna gave reports to the secret police, the Stasi, noting that she “remains on the look-out … concert in West Berlin slipped away from her secret police escorts and defected in November 1982, leaving …

1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …

(described by Rawlinson as “300 tough men”) and special police units moved onto the university and began to attack … military or simply interrogated and beaten by the police. Professors and other people alleged to be connected … months.12 Ivor Rawlinson was told that on June 19, police had entered a student dormitory and removed nine …

As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …

his hold over the Interior Ministry and secret police, while Vyacheslav Molotov, who despised and feared … used tanks, motorized infantry, and local armed police to restore order. Events in East Germany dispelled … formal state machinery, including the feared secret police (Beria himself was executed for treason in December …

That event signalled increased powers for the police and internal security organs, as well as an accelerated … them have been reported, as have instances of the police and security organs harassing ex-internees and …

their interests. This decision is often made by police officials before an examination is conducted by … Medicine. In the early hours of 3 December 1981 police entered his apartment, conducted a search and … was taken to the police station and interrogated for several hours by the secret police and a prosecutor … street by an unknown assailant. When he went to the police, a captain retorted: " What,so now you're complaining …

feature was the organised rioting and attacks on the police, no less than 741 of whom were injured. This was … encourage, if not incite, violence against the police; but they later moderated this. They continued … feature was the organised rioting and attacks on the police, no less than 741 of whom were injured. This was … encourage, if not incite, violence against - / the police; but they later moderated this. They continued … Demonstrators break windows at Moabit prison and at a police station. 19 Announcement in Bonn that Doctor …