Historical sources

BAOR, 11 March 1946 — dated secondary reconstruction

Polish Ministry of Culture — occupation service in Emsland

Hansard, 28 January 1946 — Polish II Corps in Italy

Czech National Archives — elections of 26 May 1946

Slovak Military History Institute — armoured brigade, return and reorganisation

US diplomatic record — Soviet intervention and the Groza government

US diplomatic memorandum — Romania and Bulgaria, January 1946

Belgian Senate — five brigades trained in Northern Ireland

Royal Military Museum — Goethals archive inventory, occupation records

Netherlands Defence — Prinses Irene battalions in Indonesia

Prinses Irene Brigade historical association — dissolution and 1946 regiment

Australian War Memorial — BCOF and 34th Infantry Brigade

NZ History — Jayforce arrival in Japan, March 1946

French SHD — 1re DB dissolved on 31 March 1946

French SHD — 3e DB occupation command through 18 April 1946

French SHD — infantry formations inventory

US Army Germany historical collection — 1st Division and mid-1946 Third Army

Brussels Treaty, 17 March 1948 — treaty text

US Office of the Historian — creation of NATO in 1949

US diplomatic record — British forces in Greece, 1946

British infantry battalion 1944–45 — secondary establishment reconstruction

Hansard, 20 March 1946 — policy to disband Polish forces

Canadian official history — occupation-force withdrawal, 1946

US diplomatic record — agreement to withdraw by 1 December 1945

13th Guards: conversion to a mechanised division and Austrian service (secondary synthesis)

95th Guards Rifle Division: lineage, regiments and postwar service (secondary synthesis)

284th Guards Rifle Regiment archival-index summary; wartime lineage, not an April 1946 return

US National Archives: withdrawal from Czechoslovakia in December 1945

Pavel Minařík, military-history study: postwar Czechoslovak commands (secondary)

Slovak Military History Institute: western armoured brigade and return

Czech National Archives: the constrained 1946 electoral system

FRUS: July 1945 agreement on Austrian zones and Vienna

FRUS: 1946 Trieste negotiations and the Morgan Line

UN Security Council: Greek frontier question in December 1946

FRUS: 1947 commission report on support to Greek guerrillas

FRUS 1946: Iranian withdrawal and Turkish Straits disputes

US State Department historical background: Finland’s post-1944 policy

FRUS: Swedish neutrality and the later Scandinavian pact debate

UN Treaty Series: Anglo-Danish occupation agreement, April 1947

War Heritage Institute: Belgian formation lineage after Piron

US diplomatic history: Chinese Revolution of 1949

National Army Museum: Indian independence and partition, 1947

National Army Museum: postwar British/Indian commitments in Asia

FRUS: Cuban revolution and consolidation, 1958–60

US Army official biographies: 60th Infantry command in 1945–46

US diplomatic history: NATO established in 1949

Feskov et al., chapter 14: Central Group, dated November 1945 and May 1947 tables; secondary source, with conflicts noted

Jiří Fidler: 3rd Guards Mechanized Army; conflicting transfer chronology

Jiří Fidler: 4th Guards Mechanized Army; conflicting transfer chronology

Pavel Minařík: postwar ground-force chronology

Pavel Minařík, answer 1664: Infantry Regiment 15, battalions and cadre status

Pavel Minařík: postwar Infantry Regiment 19 and northern Bohemian garrisons

Vladimír Francev: Soviet armour delivered to Czechoslovakia, 1945–51

Pavel Minařík: armoured-force reorganisation and dated June 1946 holdings

Pavel Minařík, answer 2353: 3rd Tank Brigade garrison and lineage

Pavel Minařík: air-force chronology and 1946 formations

35th Regiment lineage: restored at Klatovy in 1945; association history

Czech Defence Ministry / Military History Institute: Československá armáda v prvním poválečném desetiletí, chapter 5, pp. 34–39

FRUS: Dunn memorandum, 18 January 1946 — Austrian occupation and Hungarian communications

Contemporary precedent concerns Hungary. Extending this rationale to Czechoslovakia is our alternate-history proposal, not a historical agreement.

Campaign and current roster source

src/data/campaignCatalog.ts; src/data/campaigns/helmstedtForces.ts; docs/research/unit-modification-inventory-2026-10-26.json

Observed authored game definitions; not historical returns.

National Archives: original planning assumptions

1945 hypothetical plan, not a 1946 alliance or deployment order.

Existing Helmstedt research ledger

../../campaigns/helmstedt-research.json

Prior dated station/formation research; exact April 1946 holdings unresolved.

NKO order 0013, 10 June 1945

Primary order in transcription: reorganization/authorized establishment, not April 1946 actual strength.

12th Guards Tank Division lineage

Secondary organizational cross-check; no exact April equipment returns.

US Army CMH: Constabulary

Operational date and organization; not proof of April combat readiness. M38 armored-car wording needs correction/check; use M8 candidate.

US Army CMH: occupation history

Official occupation context; individual weapon assignments still require returns.

US Army CMH: Ordnance Department

M26 period production; not proof of deployment to a proposed 1946 battalion.

Canadian CMHQ Report 174

Official report on occupation force, May 1945–June 1946.

Australian War Memorial, BCOF records

Australia/Japan formation and deployment context; not Germany availability.

NZ History: Jayforce arrives

19 March 1946 arrival in Japan; a German deployment needs a divergence.

IPN: First to Fight

Western Polish occupation and 1946 demobilization context.

IPN: Anders soldiers

II Corps Italy-to-Britain evacuation June–October 1946, not already in Germany.

Polish Army: 12th Division lineage

12th Infantry Division in West Pomerania from October 1945; do not backdate modern mechanized identity.

Czech Military History Institute: 100 years of tanks

Western- and Soviet-equipped wartime formations contributed to the postwar national army; exact 1946 stocks unresolved.

RAF Museum: return to liberated country

Veterans returned in 1945; later political persecution is not a 1946 alignment order.

SHD: 10e Division infantry archive

Formation and dissolution 30 April 1946; archival catalogue, not inspected unit returns.

SHD: 5e Division blindée archive

Formation identity and archival coverage; exact 1946 readiness/holdings not verified.

French defence history: rebuilding the army

Wartime US-equipped formation background; not 1946 national release.

Bundesarchiv: German forces 1945–1949/57

Allied-controlled residual/service organizations. US German Labor Service admission 1948; later names must not be backdated.

War Heritage Institute: Piron Brigade

Belgian occupation participation; precise April formation strength still requires verification.

Norwegian Armed Forces: postwar rebuilding

Germany brigade from 1947, not April 1946.

FRUS 1946, occupation negotiations

Romanian/Hungarian/Bulgarian occupation and peace issues; no German expeditionary army authorized by this evidence.

FRUS: Yugoslav/Italian negotiations

Later-1946 political interests; not an April deployment.

Tank Museum: Archer

Period vehicle; no proof of issue to the authored Helmstedt AT regiment.

National Army Museum: 17-pdr M10, Italy April 1945

Photographic period precedent, not 1946 BAOR assignment.

National Army Museum: 4.2-inch mortar, Sicily 1943

Period weapon photograph; 1946 parent formation unresolved.

Tank Museum: tanks of D-Day

AVRE engineering roles; do not infer continued 1946 wartime organization.

Tank Museum: One More River

1945 assault equipment precedent, not a surviving 1946 79th Armoured Division allocation.

Victory Museum: Heroes of the Rear

Period Soviet gun families including ZiS-3/BS-3; exact unit issue unresolved.

Victory Museum: 160-mm mortar

M1943 heavy mortar precedent; not ordinary battalion equipment.

Current-unit modification research

../unit-modification-inventory-2026-10-26.md

Existing model overlaps, existing presets and prior variant evidence; proposals remain proposals.

Museum catalogue: M-72

Period production precedent; specific 18th Guards Motorcycle Battalion holdings and mount fit unverified.

Dunn memorandum, 18 January 1946

Hungarian lines-of-communication precedent; no claim of historical Czech transit agreement.