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.CIAL SERIES, NO. 12
APRIL 12, 19i
GERMAN MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS
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PREAED BY
MIlITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
WAR DEPARTMENT
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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, April 12, 1943
NOTICE
SPECIAL SERIES, No. 12 MIS 461
1. Publication of Special Series is for the purpose of providing officers with reasonably confirmed information from official and other reliable sources. 2. Nondivisional units are being supplied with copies on a basis similar to the approved distribution for divisional commands, as follows:
INFANTRY DIVISION
CAVALRY DIVISION
ARMORED DIVISION
Div Hq
8 Div Hq
8 l:)iv lq
11
Rcn Tr
2 Ord Co
2 Re Bn
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Sig Co Engr Bn
2 Sig Tr 7 Ren Sq
2 Engr Bn
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7 Med fBn
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Med Bn
7 Engr Sq
7 Maint Bn 7
QM Co
7 Mied Sq
7 Sup Bn
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18 QM Sq
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Inf Bn, 7 each
63 Hlq Cav Brig, 3 each
6 Armnd Regt, 25 each
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8 C'av Regt, aOeach
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28 EHq Div Arty
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Distribution to air units is being made by the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, Army Air Forces. 3. Each command should circulate available copies among its officers. Reproduction within the military service is permitted provided the source is stated, and the information is safeguarded. 41 Readers are invited to comment on the use that they are making of this publication and to forward suggestions for future issues. Such correspondence may be addressed directly, to the D)issemnination Unit, Military Intelligence Service, War I)epartnlent, Washington, I). C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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4. ORGANIZATION OF TI11S I)ICTIONARY
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Section I. INTRODUCTION
1. GENERAL
Perhaps to a greater extent than any other army, the German Armed Forces employ military abbreviations on their maps and charts, on task force tables of organization, on direction and location sign posts in combat zones, on field orders, and, in short, in every case where abbreviations may possibly be used. These abbreviations are often used in connection with military symbols (see German Military Symbols, January 1943, Military Intelligence Service). A thorough knowledge of both abbreviations and symbols is therefore essential to military personnel engaged in the interpretation of captured documents.
There is no "easy road to knowledge" in regard to these military abbreviations. Many words are abbreviated in more than one manner, sometimes in the course of a single document. Individual commanders frequently improvise abbreviations, which will be understandable from the context to the German officer reading them, but may cause considerable difficulty to the non-German. A
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thorough foundation in the German language is useful, but not infallible, in determining the meaning of a particular abbreviation-guessing, in this, as in all military intelligence work, is dangerous.
2. PRINCIPLES OF FORMATION
While the Germans do not follow any consistent procedure in abbreviating, the following tendencies can be observed:
a. Whenever possible the Germans keep enough of the original word structure to make the abbreviation a recognizable skeleton of the word for which it stands. An example is abkdrt. for abkommandiert.
b. Another common tendency is to lop off syllables of the word being abbreviated; the degree to which this is carried depends on the writer's haste and the amount of comprehension he expects in the reader. Here also the Germans attempt to leave enough of the distinctive structure of the word to give the reader a clue. The word Befehlshaber, for instance, can be abbreviated Befhb., Befh., or B.
c. In the case of compound words, the Germans often make an abbreviation by taking elements or initial letters from each of the component parts. An example is Kfz. for Kraftfahrzeug.
d. Sometimes this procedure results in a pronounceable combination of letters, and the abbreviation gains currency as a word. Flak for Flugzeugabwehrkanone,Gestapo for Geheime Staatspolizei, and Stuka for Sturzkampfflugzeug are familiar examples.
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