Background

The table below gives easy access to the daily entries of the D.A.K. war diary No.1. This is a project that I started for the 75th anniversary of the events. Entries will be annotated with explanatory remarks and where easily possible provide additional information, time permitting. As of 2020 the project is on ice, to enable me to put time against more urgent, book-related tasks. I will continue to add pages but on a less punishing schedule, as and when I have time and free space.

This is similar to the prior projects translating the Panzergruppe Intelligence Assessments, which can be found at this link.

Front cover of the war diary No. 1.

The smaller handwriting at the bottom states that appendices to this war diary had to be destroyed in November 1941 because they were threatened by the enemy. The staff of the D.A.K. was overrun by Allied troops shortly after the start of Operation CRUSADER.

The table below is a work in progress, and new translations will be added day by day as I publish them. At present I plan to go through all of the war diary No. 1, which ends in the middle of August 1941, but I can’t promise that I will be able to keep this up, and/or close to the actual days.

In case you are looking for places mentioned in the war diary, here’s a handy link.