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.

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 following report is divided into three principal chapters dealing with (A) background information, (B) the money and credit system in 1939-40, and (C) the period following the German invasion of 1941. Chapter A gives a short review of the development of currency and banking emphasizing the factors necessary for understanding the present system, and events that may find a parallel during the period following the present war. Chapter B gives a detailed description of the pre-invasion system. Parts of its institutional framework have been maintained in spite of the dismemberment of the country, and many of the changes that have occurred may be expected to be undone in the course of the reconstruction of the country after its liberation. It is also necessary in some cases to go back to the pre-invasion years in order to obtain adequate data on the subject of this report. Chapter C describes the changes which were wrought after the invasion in Croatia, Serbia, and the territories annexed by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The information is often fragmentary or of doubtful accuracy, most of it coming from German sources, so that the contents of the final chapter should be accepted with some reserve.

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.

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.

During WW II the Command and General Staff Colleges primary mission was to train large numbers of captains and majors to be staff officers in battalions, brigades, divisions, and corps. To that end, the Army provided copies of documents produced by field units to the College. Operations orders, after action reports, intelligence analyses, logistics appraisals, and similar documents are in the Combined Arms Research Library documents collection. The primary focus was documenting operations at the tactical and operational levels of warfare. This report discusses the Japanese administration of what was formerly British Malaya, excluding Sumatra. Territorial changes, political status, and military administration are highlighted.

During WW II the Command and General Staff Colleges primary mission was to train large numbers of captains and majors to be staff officers in battalions, brigades, divisions, and corps. To that end, the Army provided copies of documents produced by field units to the College. Operations orders, after action reports, intelligence analyses, logistics appraisals, and similar documents are in the Combined Arms Research Library documents collection. The primary focus was documenting operations at the tactical and operational levels of warfare. This study on industry and commerce describes food, textile, lumber and woodworking, chemical, iron and steel, tanning/leather, paper, building materials, and shipbuilding industries in Yugoslavia.