# Foreign Governments and International Organizations ![nato-otan logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/nato-otan.png?itok=0jMjpuD9) [**NATO Archives Online**](https://archives.nato.int/) NATO Archives Online provides users with the opportunity to explore 75 years of the Alliance’s history through the Committee documents of the North Atlantic Council and its sub-committees, the Military Committee and its working groups, as well as a complete collection of NATO Publications. Using simple or advanced text searching, researchers have the option to query 80000+ documents that cover NATO high level governance by reference code, specific title and multiple keywords. ![bundesarchiv logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/logo_bundesarchiv.png?itok=2U1eC6Xy) [**Der Bundesbeauftragte fur die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR**](https://www.bstu.de/) The former East German State Security (Stasi) Archive. The site is in German. ![LOC logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/logo-loc-new-branding.png?itok=-EyK32Tg) [**European Reading Room**](https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/) The European Reading Room should be the starting point for readers and researchers whose interest relates to European countries, including the Russian-speaking areas of Asia, but excluding Spain, Portugal, and the British Isles. ![Romania Microfilms](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/Romania%20Microfilms.jpg?itok=xgy7ZfAI) [**Romania. Microfilm Records from the National Military Archives**](https://guides.loc.gov/cold-war-military-archives/romania) In connection with a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Library of Congress has received 1,020 microfilm reels of declassified records from the National Military Archives of Romania [Arhivele Militare Naţionale Române External](https://amnr.defense.ro/) covering the earlier years of the Cold War, primarily from the period 1944-1965. ![Hungary Microfilms](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/Hungary%20Microfilms.jpg?itok=Fv1MAVnx) [**Hungary. Microfilm Records from the War History Archives**](https://guides.loc.gov/cold-war-military-archives/hungary) In connection with a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Library of Congress has received microfilm of declassified records from the [War History Archives (Hadtörténelmi Levéltár External)](https://militaria.hu/en/collections/the-museum-archives) beginning with the late 1940s. These records include ministerial orders and papers from the Secretariat and various directorates of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff. ![Poland Microfilms](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/Poland%20Microfilms_0.jpg?itok=8SDjLnnb) [**Poland. Microfilm Records from the Central Military Archives**](https://guides.loc.gov/cold-war-military-archives/Poland) In connection with a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Library of Congress has received microfilm of declassified records from the Central Military Archives Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe External (CAW) in Warsaw covering the early years of the Cold War, primarily 1945-50. They include letters, memoranda, policy papers of the Polish Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Defense, the General Staff, and other high military bodies. ![logo-archives-nationales](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-04/logo-archives-nationales.png?itok=rvOojcOO) [**French National Archive**](https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/) Official website of the French National archive. The Archives Nationales is a national public service created on 1 January 2007 by a [decree issued by the Ministry of Culture dated 24 December 2006](http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000821615&categorieLien=cid). Its mission is to collect, classify, inventory, conserve, restore, provide access to, and promote public archives from the central administrations of State, the archives of Paris notaries, and private record groups of national interest. ![mae_logo_marianne](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/mae_logo_marianne_0.jpg?itok=0sbSD-AC) [**French Diplomatic Archives**](https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/archives-diplomatiques/) Official Website of the French Foreign Ministry Archives. ![jcr_content logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/jcr_content.png?itok=OgGTWOXR) [**Austrian State Archives**](http://www.oesta.gv.at/) Official website of the Austrian State Archives. With their rich archival records spanning more than one millennium of Austrian history, the Austrian State Archives are tasked with safekeeping a highly valuable cultural heritage that is of relevance to all of Europe. They define themselves as "an institution providing impulses in the historical and archival sciences". ![logo_bundesarchiv](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/logo_bundesarchiv_0.png?itok=Ospz7axi) [**German Federal Archive**](http://www.bundesarchiv.de/) Official website of the German Federal archive. ![Logo_of_The_National_Archives_of_the_United_Kingdom](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/Logo_of_The_National_Archives_of_the_United_Kingdom.jpg?itok=HyrfBpkC) [**The National Archives of the United Kingdom**](http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) The National Archives of the United Kingdom is the repository of the national archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The records, beginning with Domesday Book (1086), span an unbroken period from the 11th century to the present. This catalogue is a database of over 8 million document references with descriptions of the documents and descriptions of the classes in which they are categorized. ![government-of-canada-logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/government-of-canada-logo.png?itok=7EncDjV2) [**Library and Archives Canada**](http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx) The Access to Information Act gives Canadian citizens as well as people and corporations present in Canada the right to have access to information in federal government records. The Act ensures that you can ask for information and, if it is not exempt or excluded, the federal government must let you see it or give you a copy. However, because much of the information the Canadian government has in its files is accessible, you may be able to find what you want without making a formal written request under the Act. ![German Historical Museum logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/images.jpg?itok=loBpXHqI) [**German Historical Museum** ](http://www.dhm.de/en.html?noMobile=1) The Museum's site offers exhibit information, links, and select collections are available online. In German and English. ![The United Nations Official Document System logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/images.png?itok=lx_ku3LO) [**The United Nations Official Document System**](https://documents.un.org/) The Official Document System (ODS) is an online database of UN documents that was first launched in 1993 and updated in 2016. ODS has full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents. The database also includes scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993, including all resolutions of the principal organs, all documents of the Security Council and the General Assembly Official Records. Documents are available in the official languages of the UN; some documents are also available in German. [**Central Archive of the Atomic Sector (archive of the agency overseeing the former**](http://atomarhiv.ru/) [**Soviet nuclear weapons production complex)**](http://atomarhiv.ru/) ![Security Services Archive of the Czech Republic logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/Security%20Services%20Archive%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic%20logo.jpg?itok=O7ipcqk2) [**Security Services Archive of the Czech Republic**](http://old.abscr.cz/) Official website. (In Czech) The main motive for the establishment of the Security Services Archive was to concentrate and expertly organize materials of all security services of the former totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia. Its qualified processing and rendering documents accessible to the wide circle of interested parties can decisively contribute to the comprehension of the mechanisms on which the Communist regime was built and help prevent biased explanations of historical events. ![general-ape-logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/general-ape-logo.jpg?itok=_VT7L2Q_) [**Archives Portal Europe**](https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/) ### [**Other Related Links:**](http://www.mol.gov.hu/?akt_menu=574&set_lang=466) [**Estonian Archival Service**](http://www.ra.ee/) [**Latvian Archival Administration**](http://www.arhivi.lv/) [**UNESCO Archives**](https://www.unesco.org/en/archives) [**International Council on Archives**](http://www.ica.org/)