This handbook covers German industry and commerce. Contents include industrial regions, metallurgical industries, engineering trades, chemical industries, and miscellaneous industries. For commerce, topics are distribution, structure of German foreign trade, and rationing and price control.

In this handbook on Germany, labor relations in the Weimar Republic, labor law under Nazism, the three supreme control agencies, the Ministry of Labor and its agencies, the German labor front, regulation of labor supply, wage policies, and the foreign laborer in Germany are all the topics addressed by Civil Affairs.

This handbook on the government finance of Japan is intended for the practical use of Civil Affairs officers. For this reason it contains detailed descriptions of financial structure and administration. The powers and duties provided, as well as the limitations placed upon, public officials, boards, ministries and legislative bodies are set forth. In-so-far as they were available and could be traced to official sources, the fiscal facts concerning budgets, taxes, revenues, expenditures and debts are presented. There is also some interpretation of the effectiveness of Japanese methods of public finance under stress of war and some estimate of the present condition of her public economy. Topics include: financial administration; the national budget; national government revenues; national tax structure; national government expenditures; national debt; local government finance; and war time developments in public finance.

This Civil Affairs document describes the employment conditions and exchanges, wages/hours/working conditions, labor legislation and policies, labor and employers' organizations, industrial relations, cooperative movement, and social insurance in Japan.

This document addresses the trade of Japan Proper (including Karafuto) with foreign countries. This includes import and export trade, trade by geographic areas and leading countries, and wartime overseas trade. Second is the trade of Japan Proper with the colonies- Korea and Taiwan. Balance of payments- Japanese Empire, and the tariff system (laws, duties, administration, customs procedure and regulations, packing/invoicing, pure food and drug regulations, and plant quarantine import restrictions) are discussed. The final three topics include government encouragement and control of trade, tariffs and trade control in Korea, and tariffs and trade controls in Taiwan.

This handbook deals with proclamations- and general orders- and instructions (general and special administrative instructions) of the allied military government in Italy; it was prepared in the theater of operation. Sections for imposition of direct and indirect control give background on law, military courts, services affecting tactical units, political guides/directives, Italian law, civilian services, handling of other civilian services, financial and commercial institutions, and detailed plans.

Discussion of France. This section gives background information beginning before World War I, the war itself and the interwar period, and moves on to money and credit institutions in 1939, the Establishments de credit, Banques d' affaires, regional and local banks, special banks, colonial and foreign banks and public credit institutions.

The origin and growth of the Nazi Party are among the most important political and social phenomena of modern times. The beginning of the document discusses the Nazi Party's rise to power and ideology, along with organization and activities of the NSDAP. Spheres of party influence, from the administration, judiciary and police to communication (propaganda), education, business, labor, agriculture and even the church are addressed. There is a chart of the German police system.

This Civil Affairs document gives information regarding categories of monuments, Belgian authorities, art history of Belgium, arrangement and classification of lists, provinces, and important dates in Belgium's history.

Discussion of France. This section covers the national government, provincial and other governmental units, local government, special units of government, special units of government, political parties and other organizations of political significance, para-military formations, pressure and subversive groups representing big business and high finance, the royalist right, other rightist pressure groups, labor unions, the Freemasons, youth movements, Compagnons de France, Ecoles de Cardes, collaborationist youth movements, scout movements, Catholic youth movements and the underground.