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Central Asia : code 97, files 1221-2143.

Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan: Afghanistan from the Civil War to World War Two, 1923-1949 Available online

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Format:
Book
Government document
Manuscript
Contributor:
National Archives (Great Britain), owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Great Britain. Foreign Office--Archives.
Great Britain.
Afghanistan--Foreign relations.
Afghanistan.
Afghanistan--History--20th century--Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Production:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1939.
Summary:
German propaganda in Afghanistan; German citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly civilians, and evacuation from former; Lufthansa flights to Tehran; Afridi raids from Tirah into Afghanistan and potential link to Amanullah, who may also have obtained Soviet and German support; Amanullah presence in Rome; Afghan meetings with Polish, Czechoslovakian and German governments in 1938; Afghan refugees in Tirah and related security concerns; political situation in Afghanistan; British guarantee to Afghanistan in the event of Soviet invasion; closure of Indo-Afghan border to Germans and Italians; foreign civilians resident in Afghanistan.
Notes:
AM Reference: FO 371/23631
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