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)
- Nazi-Soviet Relations (Department of State Publication)
- 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)
- A Look Back at Nuremberg: The Transcripts from the Court TV Library
- (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)
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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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