This document describes the Nahverteidigungswaffe, a close-in defense weapon that was fitted to a number of late-war German tanks. In this case, it was fitted to the Panzer VI Tiger II (King Tiger), with the information drawn from military technical manual D 656/42, Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausführung B, Turm Nr. 1 – 50 und Panzerbefehlswagen: Gerätbeschreibung und Bedienungsanweisung zum Turm, .

This group of records contains documents from a variety of topics that do not quite fit into the other general categories, including information on concentration camp inmates, Nazi cultural and research institutions, records of various private individuals, and more.

This section contains information on the German Foreign Office records contained in the Archives, and has records dating back to the mid-1800s through 1945.

This section contains information on the various government ministries of the Third Reich, including the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Reich Ministry of Economics, Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production, Reich Air Ministry, and others.