SHAEF Personality Card Index for Germany
The SHAEF Personality Card Index for Germany was a perforation protocol for punched cards in 80-column format according to the IBM standard, for the recording of potential sources from the German Reich by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force .
Record description
The following information could be displayed on the key SHAEF card by the machine records units :
- a. Name of the person, including known aliases.
- b. Places in which the person could be.
- c. Gender of the person.
- d. Military districts of the cities referred to in "b"
- e. Classification of the person according to SHAEF categories.
- f. Organizations of which the person was a member
- G. Organizational level at which the person worked.
- H. Rank or position within the organization.
- i. Membership length in years according to the last report.
- j. Age of the person.
- k. Nationality of the person.
- l. Source of information.
- m. Processing status of the case.
- n. place of detention if arrested.
- o. disposition z. B. Manhunt.
- p. Case number.
Column log
| First column | last column | content |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20th | Name of the person |
| 21st | 34 | place |
| 35 | 35 | Gender of the person |
| 36 | 37 | Military district |
| 38 | 38 | Classification of the person |
| 39 | 43 | Organization or rank |
| 44 | 44 | Organizational level |
| 45 | 46 | Rank or position |
| 47 | 48 | Years position last reported |
| 49 | 50 | Year of birth of the person |
| 51 | 52 | Nationality of the person |
| 53 | 54 | Source of information |
| 55 | 55 | Case status |
| 56 | 58 | Place of arrest |
| 59 | 60 | Disposition of the case |
| 61 | 65 | Case number |
| 66 | 67 | Detention center |
| 70 | 75 | Machine Records Unit sort key |
| 80 | 80 | Reference to post-punched cards
|
Pink cards
In addition to the roughly 100,000 yellow-brown (buff) colored cardboard boxes of punch cards, about 42,000 pink punch cards were also used for GIS (German Intelligence Service) personnel, i.e. employees of a German intelligence service.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mobile Machine Records Units (MRUs) were the invention of Lieutenant Arthur K. (Dick) Watson, son of Thomas J. Watson Sr. He proposed housing punch-card machines in army trucks for mobile use in combat zones.
- ^ Allied Forces. Army Group, 12th, G-2, parts V-VIII, 12th Army Group, Report of Operations: G-2 Section. pts. 1-7. 2 v.-v. 5. G-3, 1945, p.286 p. 286/2 p. 286/3 p. 286 / ag p. 286 / hn p. 286 / o-3a p. 286 / 3b ; P. 287 / Spaces 1-43 P. 287 / Spaces 44-55
- ^ John Court Curry, The Security Service 1908-1945: The Official History, 1999, [1] p. 339