HC Deb 15 July 1946 vol 425 cc166-8W
Sir R. Ross

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether any information as to the naval side of the war of 1914–18, especially with reference to the Battle of Jutland, has been discovered in German Admiralty records; and whether he wilt publish all such information.

Mr. Alexander:

There are voluminous records of the 1914–18 War, including the Battle of Jutland, in the archives of the German Admiralty. Because of the preoccupation of historical staffs with more recent history, it is not thought likely that there will be an opportunity of examining these records further in the foreseeable future, and it is unlikely that such examination would reveal anything of general interest which does not already appear in the very full published German Official History, one volume of which is entirely given up to an account of the Battle of Jutland, and was, of course, compiled from the records referred to.