Rare, Secret O.S.S. Report on the Military and Social Conditions of the Netherlands, February 1945 (Full text)

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S.H.A.E.F. Mission (Netherlands) Political Intelligence Report No. 5. For Fortnight ending 14 February 1945.

 

Intelligence from the Liberated Netherlands.

 

This is a situation report conducted for the Office of Strategic Services (the O.S.S.) on the social and economic conditions in the Netherlands, including the situations on food, fuel, living conditions, attitudes of the population towards U.S. soldiers, and so on.  This is a fragile, offset production, and not at all found in the WorldCat/OCLC, which means that no copy of this exists in libraries around the world. The work is annotated "OSS", stamped "R & A Library" and also stamped on the verso of last sheet "received CID 1945 Mar 3 PM", which means that the paper was received by the Central Information Division of the Office of Strategic Services, the Research and Analysis Branch. The provenace of the paper therefore is the O.S.S. (the precursor to the C.I.A.), and then on to the Library of Congress.  [13x8", 3 leaves/5pp.]

 

Given the rarity and its interesting nature, I've reproduced the document, below.