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11. The Second World War

Aroneanu, Eugene, comp. Inside Accounts of Life in Hitler’s Death Camps. Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler’s Death Camps. Translated by Thomas Whissen. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996. From the translator’s preface: “These eyewitness accounts tell of heinous crimes committed against a great array of ‘undesirabales’: Catholics, Communists, Czechs, Danes, Dutch, English, French, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Hungarians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, Norwegians, Poles, Russians . . . .”) RVS: D 805 .A2 K6613 1996

Berezhkov,V. M. At Stalin’s Side: His Interpreter’s Memoirs from the October Revolution to the Fall of the Enpire. Translated by Sergei V. Mikheyev. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1994. NRG: DK 268 .B38 A3 1994

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison. New York: Macmillan, 1972. RGC: BX 4827 .B57 A43 1972

Chamberlin, Brewster, and Marcia Feldman, eds. The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators. Washington: United States Memorial Holocaust Council, 1987. (Testimony given at the International Liberators Conference at Washington, D.C., in October of 1981. Participants recounted their memories of events 40 or so years earlier.) NRG, RGC: D 805 .G3 L52 1987

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. RGC: DA 566.9 .C5 A5 1989.

Churchill, Winston. Memoirs of the Second World War. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. (Abridgement of Churchill’s six-volume The Second World War, plus an epilogue by author on postwar years written for this volume.) RVS: D 743 .C484 1990

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir.The Second World War. 6 vols. Vol. 1, The Gathering Storm; Vol. 2, Their Finest Hour; Vol. 3, The Grand Alliance; Vol. 4, The Hinge of Fate; Vol. 5, Closing the Ring; Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy.. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1948-1953. (The British prime minister’s memoirs of the war. Includes many communications between political, military, and diplomatic persons associated with Churchill.) NRG, RGC: D 743 .C47

Galante, Pierre. Voices from the Bunker. New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1989. (Personal narratives of some of the persons with Hitler in his last days in Berlin in 1945.) CYP, EVC, RVS: DD247 .H5 G25 1989

Gill, Anton. The Journey Back from Hell: Concentration Camp Survivors. New York: Morrow, 1989. RVS: D 805 .A2 G49 1989

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich. Memoirs. New York: Doubleday, 1989. (Gromyko was a Soviet diplomat and statesman. Served as ambassador to U.S. in the 1940s. Was Soviet foreign minister, 1947-1985; president of Soviet Union, 1985-1988. Coverage: 1909-1989.) NRG: DK 268 .G77 A3 1989

Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf, and Arthur L. Smith, Jr. World War II Policy and Strategy: Selected Documents with Commentary. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Books, 1979. RGC, RVS: D 735 .W65 1979

Markovna, Nina. Nina’s Journey: A Memoir of Stalin’s Russia and the Second World War. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989. NRG: D 811.5 .M2735 1989

Moczarski, Kazimierz. Conversations with an Executioner. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981. (Contents: Reconstructed conversations between a Polish underground officer and with two SS officers, imprisoned after World War II, about German attitudes and actions toward Jews and others.) NRG: DD 247 .S84 M6213

Moltke, Helmuth James, Graf von. Letters to Freya, 1939-1945. Edited and translated from the German by Beate Ruhm von Oppen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. (“The compelling letters to his wife from a young German aristocrat who participated in the resistance movement against Hitler.”) RVS: DD 247 .M6 A413 1990

Noakes, Jeremy. , and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945. Vol. 2: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination. New York: Schocken Books, 1983, 1984, 1988. RVS: DD 256.5 .N365 1990.

Noakes, Jeremy, and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. Nazism, 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader. Reprint with updated bibliography. Vol. 3: Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1995. (This is the third volume of the collection of documents which precedes this entry.) RVS: DD 256.5 .N365 1990. V. 3

Owings, Alison.Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. New Brunswich, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993. (Author interviewed twenty-eight women in the 1980s. Most were neither Nazi Party members nor resisters to the Nazi movement and government. Text is a combination of quotations by the interviewees, paraphrases by the author, and her interpretations of the meaning of the interviews.) RGC: D 811.5 .O885 1993

Pelican, Fred. From Dachau to Dunkirk. (The Library of Holocaust Testimonies.) London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1993. (Author, a Jew, spent time in Dachau concentration camp in the late 1930s. Was released and allowed to leave Germany early in 1939. Went to England. After beginning of the war, joined British army. Participated in invasion of western Europe in 1944 and, after war’s end, investigated German war crimes.) RVS: DS 135 .E6 P45 1993

Rinser, Luise. A Woman’s Prison Journal: Germany, 1944. New York: Schocken Books, 1987. (Author, a literary writer, was arrested for high treason by the Nazis in 1944. Released at end of war.) RVS: PT 2635 .I68 Z464 1987

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill, their Secret Wartime Correspondence. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975. RGC: E 807 .A4 1975

Schumann, Willy. Being Present: Growing Up in Hitler’s Germany. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981. RGC: DD 247 .S384 A3 1991

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. (Originally published, 1941.) NRG: D 727 .S529

Shirer, William L. “This is Berlin”: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany. Overstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 1999. (The relevant material begins on p. 73. Deals with the first year of the war.) NRG, RVS: D 743.9 .S5112 1999

Snyder, Louis L. Hitler’s Third Reich: A Documentary History. Chicago, Ill.: Nelson-Hall, 1981. NRG: DD 256.5 .H536 1981

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970. (Memoirs of Hitler’s chief architect and director of munitions.) RVS: DD247 .S63 A313 1970 (Another copy, with call number DD 247 .S63 A3132, is at NRG.)

Steinhoff, Johannes, and others, eds. Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. RVS: DD 256.5 .S764 1994

Taylor, Tedford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir. Boston, Mass.: Back Bay Books, 1993. RGC, RVS: JX 5437.8 .T39 1993. (RVS’s copy has the following differences: New York: Knopf, 1992, and the end of the call number has 1992.)

Terkel, Studs, comp. “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. (More than half of the testimony has to do with U.S. participation in the war, but there is relevant material having to do with British, German, and Russian participation.) NRG, RGC: D 811 .A2 T45 1984

Werner, Emmy E. Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. (Hybid source. Author has written a narrative around many quotations from children who experienced the war. Excerpts are from letters, diaries, and journals. Based on about 200 accounts by children and teenagers from Germany, Austria, Japan, the United States, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Poland, plus interviews with a dozen adults who reflect on their wartime childhood.) NRG, RGC: D 810 .C4 W45 2000

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