Germany: National Socialism and World War II

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Session Proceedings of the Reichstag
from the Treaty of Versailles to the begin of World War II:
A digitization project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (1919-1939; German transcriptions)
NB: Protokolle des Reichstags (1867-1895) are also available.

Documentation of the National Socialist movement and dictatorship,
Including such sections as the path to power (including the Ermächtigungsgesetz), the war,
medical experiments, persecution and the Shoah, among others.
(1930 - 1945; facsimiles and German-language transcriptions)

Access to facsimiles of German-Jewish periodicals from the Enlightenment until the Third Reich.
Digitized by various German institutions with support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
(18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries; facsimiles and some German-language explanatory comments)
Facsimiles of many Jewish newspapers produced in the time of the Third Reich.
Some began as early as 1911; the last issues of most were in 1938.
A major digitization project of Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
(1911-1943; facsimiles)
Facsimiles of many newspapers produced by the exile German press during World War II.
A major digitization project of Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
(1933-1945; facsimiles)

Growing collection of digitized images from among the 11 million images in the Federal Archive.
Searchable by multiple access points or browsable by subject.
(19th-20th centuries; image database)

German and British source materials on the Munich Agreement of 1938.
(March-September 1938; English transcriptions and translations of documents, maps, statistics and commentary)
Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy.
(29 September 1938; English translation)

Papers relative to the events and negotiations which preceded the opening of hostilities
  between Germany on the one hand, and Poland, Great Britain and France on the other hand.
Electronic version by permission of the French Government.
(1938-1939; English translations)

As announced in the Völkischer Beobachter.
(23 May 1939; English translation)

Radio address a few months before the German attack on France.
(29 January 1940; English translation)*Franco-German Armistice
(25 June 1940; English translation)

Documents from the archives of the German Foreign Office.
(1939-1941; English translations)
A collection of documents and agreements from the Avalon Project.
(1939-1941; English translations).
(22 June 1941; English translation).

(3 August 1941; English translation).

The League of German Girls, female branch of the Hitler Youth.
(1930-1945; photos & posters, translated narratives, facsimiles of documents and journals).

Including posters, speeches, etc.
Digitized by Calvin College as a part of the German Propaganda Archive.
(1933-1945; Facsimiles, translations and transcriptions)
Postage stamps as a form of propaganda
(1933-1945; facsimile images)

By Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(8 December 1941; English transcription).
(11 December 1941; English translation).

An Oberleutnant's battle reports and diary from the Eastern Front.
(24 June 1941 - 31 March 1942; German transcriptions).

The top secret minutes of the meeting held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to find a "final solution" to the "Jewish Question."
(January 20, 1942; German transcription)
(January 20, 1942; English translation)

(31 July 1941; English translation)
(English translation; 5 October 1942)
(English translation; 4 October 1943)

Documentation of forced labor during the Nazi era, laws, restitution, etc.
(1939-1945; German-language transcriptions and commentary)
Sources on forced labor in the area of Hagen.
(1939-1945; facsimiles of documents and photos)

Giovanni Notte's diary written in a German prisoner of war camp.
(September 1943 - January 1944; Italian transcription and English translation)

Memoirs of Two German Prisoners of War:

by Gerhard Friedrich Dose
(8 September 1944 - 8 March 1947; German transcription)
by Wolfgang Vetter
(20 April 1945 - 28 February 1947; English transcription)

Documents of the Eisenhower Library.
(1943-1944; facsimiles & photos)
Daily battle communiques from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Europe (SHAEF).
Searchable database with full-text facsimiles.
(6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945; text-searchable facsimiles)

Hundreds of documents: diplomatic correspondence, reports, memos, interviews, etc.
(1933-1945; English and German facsimiles)

Documents of National Socialism from the University of Würzburg.
(1933-1945; German transcriptions).
Documents of National Socialism from the virtual library for German history.
(1933-1945; German transcriptions).
Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents.
(German transcriptions with German and English translations)
Documents from the Nazi period
(1933-1945; German transcriptions)
Texts including pronouncements, speeches and orders of Adolf Hitler, Walter von Reichenau and others
(1933-1945; German transcriptions and translations)
A Hamburg pastor's memoirs of the "Third Reich."
(1933-1945; German transcriptions).

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
(1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1938-1945; translations)

From the Nizkor Project
(Transcriptions and translations)
Documents from and about the proceedings as collected in the Avalon Project.
(Transcriptions and translations)
A searchable database of transcripts digitized by Harvard Law School
(German and English-language facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations)
(1945-46; transcriptions, many also available in zip-file format)
In commemoration of the Doctor's Trial's fiftieth anniversary, the USHMM presents excerpts from the official trial record,with accompanying photographs.
German-language version of official documents and materials from the Nuremberg Trials.
(14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946; transcriptions)
Documents describing the goals of German politics at the time, and sentencing at the Nürnberg Proceedings.
(1937-1949; German transcriptions)
Documents from the personal archive of General William J. Donovan,
special assistant to the U.S. chief of counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
A joint and ongoing project of the Cornell Law Library and the Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion.
Includes a psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler
(1945-46; facsimiles, transcriptions and commentaries)

See also Shoah (Holocaust)


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