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AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Arthur L. Funk, Ck~irman
Department of History
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
NEWSLETTER
Permanent Directors
Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary
and Newsletter Editor
Department of history
Southern Dlinois University
Carbondale, minnis 62901
0-89126-060-9
Robin Higham, Archivist
Department of History
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas 66506
Charles F. Delzell
Vanderbilt University
H. Stuart Hughes
University of California
at San Diego
Forrest C. Pogue
Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute
Terms expiring 1978
'.;ean C. Allard
Naval History Division
Charles B. Burdick
San Jose State University
Philip A. Crowl
Naval'War College
Robert A. Divine
University of Texas at Austin
William M. Franklin
Deoartment of State (ret.)
John Lewis Gaddis
Ohio University
Colonel A. F. Hurley
Air Force Academy
Robert Wolfe
National Archives
Janet Ziegler
University of California
at Los Angeles
Terms expiring 1979
Stephen E. Ambrose
University of New Orleans
Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr.
Chief of Milltary History
Warren F. Kimball
Rutgers University, Newark
Robert O. Paxton
Columbia University
Agnes F. Peterson
Hoover Institution
Harrison E. Salisbury
The New York Times
Telford Taylor
New York City
Russell F. Weigley
Temple University
Terms expiring 1980
Martin Blumenson
Washington, D. C.
Harold C. Deutsch
Army War College
Stanley L. Falk
Office of Air Force History
Maurice Matloft
Center of Military History
Ernest R. May
Harvard University
John Toland
Danbury, Connecticut
Gerhard L. Weinberg
University of North Carolina
Roberta Wohlstetter
Pan Heuristics, Los Anaeles
Earl F. Ziemke
University of Georgia
Fall 1978
Number 20
CONTENTS
Membership and Dues •
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Note on the Membership Directory
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Committee Elections •
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The International Comndttee News Bulletin
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Book Revieu: Coordination
Robert Dallek
Department of History
University of California
at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90024
James J. Dougherty
National Endowment
for the Humadties
Washington, D. C. 20500
Bibliography
1978 ANNUAL MEETING (28 December)
ACHSWW Business Meeting.
Joint AHA-ACHSWW Session on U. S. Occupation Policy for Germany.
Session on Teaching the Holocaust.
OTHER MEETINGS
Sofia, May 1978.
Helsinki, June 1978.
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RESEARCH RESOURCES AND FACILITIES
The Leo Ba.eck Institute in New York
and Its Holdings on the Second World
War.
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The Institute for European History
in Mainz •
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The Library for Contemporary History
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BIBLIOGRAPHY.
ATTACHMENTS (following page 28)
News Bulletin of the International
Committee
Election Ballot
Information and Membership Form
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J anat Ziegler
Reference Department
UCLA Library
Los Angeles, California 90024
American Commdll!l! ill
affiliotl!d with:
American Historical Association
400 A Street, S. E.
Washington,D.C.~
Comite International
d'Histoire de la Deuxieme
Guerra Mondie.le
32, rue de Leningrad
75008 Paris, France
MEMBERSHIP AND DUES
Membership is open to anyone interested in the history of
the Second World War. Annual dues, payable in January for
the calendar year, are $10.00 for regular members, as well
as for institut.ions receiving the semiannual newsletter,
and $2.00 for students. Those wishing to join or to renew
their membership are invited to fill out the lower part of
the Information and Membership Form (attached to this newsletter as an unnumbered page) and to return it, with the
appropriate remittance, to the secretary. The information
provided on the form will be included, unless otherwise
requested, in the Membership Directory.
NOTE ON THE MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY
Newsletter 19, issued this past spring, included a thirtyfive page directory of the membership of the ACHSWW. A revised version will be prepared for the Spring 1979 newsletter. It will not include, as originally planned, a listing
of the officers of the International Committee and the chairmen of the affiliated national committees, for they are listed
on pp. 23-26 of the attached News Bulletin of the International
Commi ttee •
The directory in the ACHSWW's next newsletter will
refle,~:t changes of address and correction of errors kindly
brought to our attention. Recent moves that have not yet been
reported, as well as other changes in or additions to individual entries, may be indicated on the attached Information
and Membership Form.
COMMITTEE ELECTIONS
The three-year terms of eight of the directors and of the
committee's two officers end on 31 December 1978. Following
the established practice of the committee, the directors,
acting as a nominating committee, have selected a slate of
incumbents and new candidates. These nominations are recorded
on the ballot attached to this newsletter (as an unnumbered
page following the International Committee News Bulletin) .
Members are requested to send their completed ballots to
the secretary at their earliest convenience, either enclosing
them when they renew their membership or sending them separately. Because of possible delays in postal service during
November (when this newsletter with the ballot is being mailed)
and December, ballots will not be tallied until January.
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THE
INTEm~ATIONAL
COMMITTEE NEWS BULLETIN
The September 1978 issue of the News BUlletin of the International Committee is appended to this newsletter following
the bibliography, \vhich ends on page 28. We hope to provide ACHSWW members regularly with copies of this bulletin,
with its valuable coverage of international activities and
scholarship on the area of the Second World War.
THE 1978 ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of the ACHSWW is being held this year!
as in the past, in conjunction with the annual meeting of
the American Historical Association. In 1978 the joint
meeting is .being held in San Francisco.
BUSINESS MEETING
The ACHSWW Business Meeting is scheduled to take place from 5:00 to
7:00 p.m. on Thursday, 28 December 1978, in the Walnut Room of the
San Francisco Hilton. The tentative agenda includes plans for a
joint session proposal for the 1979 annual meeting, being held in
New York, and for the program of the 1980 Conference of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War, being held
in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Congress of Historical
Sciences in Bucharest. (Information on the International Co~mittee's
plans for this conference will be found in the International Committee's
Bulletin, which is appended to this newsletter.) Another item on the
agenda will be the question of research resources on the World War II
era, the topic on which the ACHSWN initially had proposed a joint
session, but for which a substitution had to be made, as explained
below. No formal presentation on research resources is planned, but
rather a general discussion of what the committee may be able to do
in order to facilitate the study of the World War II era. (The com~
mittee secretary--should any member wish to contact him before the
meeting regarding the agenda or for other reasons--is planning to
arrive at the San Francisco ~ilton on the evening of the 27th.)
1978 JOINT SESSION
At the 1977 business meeting of the ACHSWW, it was resolved, as
reported in Newsletter 19, that the committee propose a joint session
with the AHA on the topic of Research Resources for the Era of the
Second World War. a panel discussion including leading authorities
(among them three members of the committee's board) on different aspects
of the challenge of developing control of the vast and growing body
of source materials on the World War II period.
When it was learned that the AHA Program Committee, relatively
early in its deliberations, had ruled out our proposal, i t was arranged
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to co-sponsor another proposed session that had, in a sense t grown out
of our May 1977 conference on the postwar occupation of Germany and
Japan t but that had not been initially adopted by the program committee.
The AHA-ACHSWW joint session for the 1978 meeting t as finally approved t
will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, 28 Dec., in the Borgia
Room of the St. Francis Hotel,
Session 55. FROM PUNISmtENT TO REORIENTATION--ASPECTS OF REFORM:
THE REVERSE COURSE IN UNITED STATES OCCUPATION POLICY FOR GERMANY
Joint Session ~,dth the American Commi. ttee on the History
of the Second World War
Chair:
Willard A. Fletcher t University of Delaware
From Prosecution to Clemency for War Criminals
John Mendelsohn, National Archives and Records Service
From Information Control to Media Freedom
Robert Wolfe, National Archives and Records Service
German Public Views on Changing U. S. OCcupation Policy
Richard L. Merritt, University of Illinois
Comment:
Earl F. Ziemke, University of
C~orgia
Synopsis: As in postwar Japan, where the term "Reverse Course"
originated t there was a dramatic reversal of occupation policy in the
American zone of GermanYt illustrated in this session with papers explaining U. S. administration of justice to war criminals t control of the
media t the policy changes that took place in both these areaS t and the
response of German public opinion to the Reverse Course in occupied Germany.
SESSIO>! ON THE HOLOCAUST
Committee members free on the morning of the 28th may be interested in
attending Session 25, the joint session of the AHA and the Committee on
History in the Classroom (of which the ACHSWW secretary is co-chairman)t
Teaching the Holocaust: Comparative Approaches to a Sensitive Subject
(9:30-11:30 a.m.~ 28 Dec" Colonial Room of the St. Francis Hotel).
Organized and chaired by Donald S. Detwiler, the session will have papers
by Siegfried Bachmann, Brunswick, Gerald R. Kleinfeld t Arizona State t and
Erich Go1dhagen t Harvard. The commentator will be Howard Morley Sachar
of George Washington University.
Synopsis: Ultimately incomprehensible t the Holocaust confronts
the teacher of history with a daunting challenge. Three perspectives on
it will be considered in this session: its treatment in the context of
courses dealing with German history being taught in America; the v.arious
approaches taken to it in postwar Western Europe; and the attempt in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to obscure itt reducing it to an
inconspicuous episode of World War II.
OTHER MEETINGS
The appended issue of the International Committee News Bulletin reports, in some cases in considerable detail, on meetings
and conferences of the affiliated national committees. The
American Committee was represented in May and June at meetings
in eastern and northern Europe.
Wi.th support from the ACHSWW', their respective institutions, the host committees, and NEH-funded grants from the
American Council of Learned Societies, Professor Arthur L. Funk,
Chairman of the ACHS~M and Vice-President of the International
Committee, and Professor Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary of the
ACHSWW, attended the meetinq of the Executive Board of the
International Committee in Bucharest on 24 May 1978 and a colloquium on 27-28 May in Sofia, which was jointly sponsored by the
Bulgarian Committee and the International Cornnlittee. The deliberations of the Bucharest meeting are described in detail in the
appended issue of the International Committee News Bulletin.
The report of the ACHSWW secretary, who was the official representative of the American Committee at the Sofia meeting, is
carried below.
At the beginning of June, Professor F.H.G. Taylor of the
University of Florida represented the ACHSWW at the international symposium in Helsinki. His report follows that on the
Sofia meeting.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN SOFIA ON THE ANTI-FASCIST RESISTANCE IN AXISPACT COUNTRIES
Jointly sponsor.ed by the Condte International d 'Histoire de la DeuxH~me
Guerre Mondiale and the Bulgarian Committee on the History of the Second
World War. the meeting was conducted under the auspices of the History
Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Science on 27 & 28 May 1978 in
Sofia.
The two-day program included some thirty presentations by World
War II historians from a dozen countries (Austria t Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. Finland t France t the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, 'the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia), each
simultaneously translated (over earphones) in the five conference languages
(Bulgarian, English, French. German, and Russian). Though relatively
lind ted time was available for discuss ion, the discussion that did take
place was objective and issue-oriented.
Chairman and host of the conference was the head of the Bulgarian Committee on the History of the Second World War, David Elazar, who is
also director of the Bulgarian Academy of Science's History Institute. He
shared the chairmanship of the conference, during the two long afternoon
sessions, with the Vice-President of the International Committee. Arthur
L. Funk. on the first day. and the International Committee's treasurer,
Harry Paape, on the second. The Bulgarians' hospitality toward participants in the conference was gratifying. There was ample opportunity for
individual contact and conversation with individual schola-rs t and the
atmosphere was conducive to utilizing this opportunity.
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The conference hosts (or, in some cases, the participants themselves) kindly provided, for duplication as needed, copies of the fulllength papers on which the presentations were based.
Among the papers
now on file with the committee archivist is the keynote address by the
Bulgarian historian Kiril Vassilev on the antifascist resistance in Axispact countries, and his fellow countryman Dimitar Sirkov's paper on antifascist resistance in Bulgaria (both in English translation), papers by
Soviet Colonel A. A. Bobanov on the partisan struggle in the USSR and
by his colleague Colonel Michael I. Semiryaga on the impact of the
victories of the Soviet Army on the anti-fascist resistance (both in
Russian); by Klaus Drobisch and Dieter Lange of the German Democratic
Republic on the German resistance, and by Gyula Juhasz of Hungary on
the intellectual resistance in his country (all three papers in German);
by Mihai ~tu, Bucharest, on the resistance in Romania (in French); and
the paper of the British representative, Elisabeth Barker, British Relations with Anti-Fascist Groups in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary. (For
the full ti tIes, page count, and cos t of these papers, as well as others
from the conference that may be made available, please write directly
to the ACHSWW Archivist at the address shown on the first page of this
news Ie t te r . )
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN HELSINKI ON WORLD WAR II IN THE NORDIC
COUNTRIES
An International Symposium of Military and Political Historians took
place in Helsinki, Finland, between June 2 and 6, 1978. The Symposium
was organized by the Finnish Committee for the History of the Second
World War, the Finnish Commission of Military History and the Institute
of Military Science of the Finnish Armed Forces, in cooperation with
the International Committee for the History of the Second World War.
This was the second of two symposia focussed on World War II
in the Nordic countries. The first was held two years ago in Oslo;
it covered the years 1939 and 1940. This year's symposium was organized
around two topics: "The Great Powers and the Nordic Countries in
1941-1945" and "The Organization of the Military High Command During
the Second World War."
Eighty-five participants from nineteen countries took part in the
symposium. Discussion was lively and often spirited, especially
during the presentation of the papers on the first of the topics named
above.
The weather was perfect from beginning to end. The setting and
service at the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Center at Hanasaari were firstrate; the staffing and simultaneous translations of the proceedings
excellent; and the hospitality of our Finnish hosts ever-present and
without bounds. Of outside activities the most striking was our
presence at the 60th Anniversary Parade of the Finnish Armed Forces
at Hameenlinna.
Grateful thanks are due especially to Professor Olli Vehvilainen,
Chairman of the Finnish Committee for the History of the Second World
War, and to Lieutenant-Colonel Antti Juutilainen of the Finnish Institute of Military Science, Helsinki.
RESEARCH RESOURCES
The series of reports in this newsletter on research institutions is continued in this issue with coverage of three
specialized centers. The report on the Leo Baeck Institute
in New York was kindly provided by the institute's chief
archivist, Dr. Sybil Milton. The reports on the Institute
for European History in Mainz and the Library for Contemporary
History in Stuttgart were wri tten by the newsle"tter editor,
who worked at both centers ",hile in Germany this past summer
on a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
TIiE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK AND ITS HOLDINGS ON THE ERA OF
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
After 1945, a wealth of documentary material about World War II, Nazi
Germany, and the Holocaust was deposited in a large number of autonomous public and private foreign and American archives. One of these
specialized research and study centers was the Leo Baeck Institute in
New York. (Located at 129 East 73rd Street, N. Y., N. Y. 10021, it is
open Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and during the
academic year until 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday evenings.)
The institute was founded in 1955 by the Council of Jews from
Germany "for the purpose of collecting material and sponsoring research
about the life and history of the Jewish community in Germany and other
German-speaking countries, from the Emancipation to the Nazi persecution."
The archives and library of the institute are one of the largest documentary collections in this field, containing over 2000 linear feet of
archives, a specialized library of 50,000 volumes, over 600 periodicals
and newspapers, 500 memoirs, and an art collection. A sampling of major
literary estates includes the following names: Leo Baeck, Heinrich
Braun, Lily Braun, Julie Braun-Vogelstein, }furtin Buber, Paul Ehrlich,
Albert Einstein, Efraim Frisch, Sigmund Freud, Emil J. Gumbel, Kurt
Grossmann, Fritz Haber, Erich von Kahler, Kurt Kersten, Eduard Lasker,
Fritz Mauthner, the Rudolf Mosse family, Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Schaeffer,
Leopold Schwarzschild, Richard Willstaedter, and Leopold Zunz. There
are also substantial collections about German-Jewish communities in
Berlin and Hamburg (the Jacob Jacobson Collection), Silesia (the Pinkus
and Fraenkel Collection), Baden and the Palatinate (Berthold Rosenthal
Collection), and Alsace and Lorraine. Furthermore, numerous photographs and other audio-visual material complement the paper records of
the LBI Archives. The materials are mostly in German, although French,
Swedish, Czech, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, and English are'
occasionally found in the collections.
A selection of several especially interesting collections about
the period of World War II and the Holocaust is listed below. This
list h" not comprehensive and comprises about forty perce+lt of the relevant holdings on this subject.
1. Julie Braun-Vogelstein Collection (1883-1971), with ca. 15
linear ft. of material in German and English, includes correspondence
with Friedrich Adler, Arnold Brecht, Henri de Man (69 letters, 19261933), Adam von Trott zu 80lz (1932-1942), and other members of the von
Trott family (1935-1969). The collection also includes several manuscripts by and about Adam von Trott. (Cf. LBI Library and Archive News,
No.4, May 1976, pp. 6-7). [N.B. Dates following a collection named for
a person refer to the years of that person's birth and death.]
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2. Karl D. Darmstaedter Collection (AR 3737, V) contains 90
letters from 1935 to 1946 about Mannheim Jews deported to Gurs and
Recebedou camps in Vichy France. (In German and English.)
3. Concentration Camps France, 1939-1944 (AR 3987) is a collection containing 907 pages of reports from the American Friends Service
Committee and the Comite de Coordination pour llAssistance dans les
Camps (also known as the Nimes Committee). The collection includes the
minutes of Nimes Committee meetings from 10 Dec. 1940 to 9 Sept. 1942;
addenda to these minutes consisting of reports by the Health and Emigration Commissions about conditions in Gurs, Vernet, St. Cyprien, Masseube
and other internment camps in Vichy France. There are reports about
camps in the Occupied Zone of France and Belgium during 1941; about
Labor Camps in France, Belgium, and Spain, 1941 to 1944; and the work
of various religious relief and charitable organizations in occupied
and unoccupied France. (In French, German, and English.)
4. Richard A. Ehrlich Collection (1888-1) contains material
about his life in Theresienstadt [AR 1l/VI-VIII], including fragments of
a diary kept in Theresienstadt, 1943-45, 191 pages. Section IX of
the Collection contains documents from the Displaced Persons Center in
Deggendorf, Bavaria, and includes the Deggendorf Center Revue, 1. Jahr,
Mitte November 1945, Special Edition No.1 - 1. Jahr, No. 11, 15 April
1946. (In German.)
5. Bernhard Kolb Collection (1882-1971; secretary of the Jewish
community of Nuremberg, 1928-1943), ca. 1 ft. of material in German,
containing correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings and photos
from Theresienstadt (1941-1945), including a list of deportees to
Theresienstadt, the daily orders of the Altestenrat, and documents about
Jewish self-administration. Photos and drawings made by Kolb's son,
Herbert Kolb, depict physical conditions in Theresienstadt. The collection also contains original letters to the editor from the files of
Der Sturmer (1933-1943), the weekly newspaper published by Julius
Streicher. There are also letters to the editor from the Eastern Front
(1939-1944), including Propaganda Ministry photographs of the Lublin
Ghetto. sturmer files are also located in German Captured Documents
held by YIVO Archives, N. Y. and the National Archives, Washington,D. C.
Some of the correspondence is published in papers by Henry Friedlander
and Sybil Milton delivered at the Second Western Conference on the Holocaust, San Jos~, California, 1978. Many of the files are reproduced by
Fred Hahn in Lieber Stuermer. Leserbriefe an das NS-Kampfb1att 1924
bis 1945. Eine Dokumentation aus dem Leo Baeck Institut, New York.
Stuttgart, Seewald Verlag, 1978.
6. General files on Concentration Camps in Europe and many
Memoirs contain further material about: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen,
Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, Drancy, Gurs, Jawischowitz, Lichtenberg,
Lodz, Mauthausen, No~, Oranienburg, R~c~bedou, Rivesaltes, Sachsenhausen,
Sosnowiec, Stutthof, Swodan, Theresienstadt, Vernet, and Westerbork.
7.· General archival files on National Socialism, 1933 to 1945,
including the photo album of Franz Zavier Schwarz, Treasurer of the NSDAP,
made by Heinrich Hoffman (63 photographs). (Here it should be noted,
however, that the Hoffmann Collection, 1919-1944, with over 36,000
negatives and 150 albums, is located in the Still Picture Branch of the
National Archives, Washington, D. C.).
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(1891-1962) includes 798 letters from
prominent literary and political personalities ","'no fled Hitler's Europe,
including Babette Gross and Margarete Buber-Neumann (99 letters and
postcards); Ludwig Marcuse (52 letters); Theodor Heuss (23 letters);
Kurt Hiller (23 letters); letters and material from the widows of Rudolf
Breitscheid and Rudolf Hilferding, 1947-1958, etc. (In German.)
9. Kurt Richard Grossman Collection (1897-1972), 41 ft. of
correspondence, manuscripts, and office files, 1938-1966 t in German and
other languages, including material about human rights, prosecution of
Nazi criminals during the Nuremberg Trials, refugee and i~~gration
problems, restitution cases, and the German-Israeli agreement of 1954.
Correspondents include Victor Basch. Sol Bloom, Emanuel Celler, Albert
Einstein. Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster. Manfred George, Nachum Goldmann,
Thomas Mann, Ernst Toller, Veit Valentin, and Stephen Wise. (Other
sections of the Kurt Grossman estate are held by the Hoover Institution
at Stanford and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.)
10. Emil Julius Gumbel Collection (1891-1966), ca. 25 ft. in
German, French. and English. Gumbel was a leading pacifist and polemicist against nationali.sm, fasel.sm. and Nazis.m as well as a Professor of
Statistics. The collection contains his political articles and lectures.
1914-1960, including material on the Berthold Jacob Case, and the Reichs~
tag arson trial at the German Supreme Court, Leipzig, 1933. Extremely
fragile paper necessitates photocopying restrictions. (The Special
Collections of the University of Chicago Library hold the E. J. Gumbel
correspondence for this period.)
11. James G. McDonald Collection (1886-1964), ca. 3 ft., in
English, German, and French. The papers cover the period from December
1933 to December 1935, when McDonald served as first High Commissi.oner
for Refugees from Germany at the League of Nations. The correspondence
consists of outgoing mail office files, and contains the transcripts of
various High Commission subcommittees dealing with finances, passports,
travel regulations, and the problems of professionals trying to leave
Germany. Correspondents include: Norman Bentwich, Dr. Cyrus Adler~
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, the Bishop of Chicester etc. (The ~~jor
part of McDonald's literary estate is with the Lehman Papers. Columbia
University, School of International Affairs.)
12. Luis Stern Collection contains 155 letters written by German
Jews interned in camps in France and Spain between 1940 and 1944.
Stern was born in Mannheim and moved to Spain. His correspondence
aimed at helping his former compatriots emigrate from Gurs and other
camps, in arranging clandestine crossings from France into Spain, and
transit to Portugal. The correspondence of this businessman reveals a
one-man private relief agency.
13. Gertrude van Tijn Collection (1881-1) contains the papers of
a German-Jewish social worker who set up agricultural and manual training
farms for refugees from Nazi Germany. The collection contains materials
about this Werkdorp Wieringen from 1934 to 1940. There are also manuscript memoirs by van Tijn which contain reports on Holland during the
years of occupation, on Camp Vucht, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and the
movement of some inmates from Bergen-Belsen to Palestine in 1944.
Extensive photographic record of her life and activities. (In German,
Dutch, and English.)
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Kurt Kersten Co_Uec:tion
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14. Documents and periodicals of the Kulturbund deutscher Juden,
1933-1941, in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Kassel, are available in the archive
and library.
15. Marthe Mosse Collection (1884-7) contains documents from
Theresienstadt, and on her activities in Berlin during the Nazi period.
16. The A. Loebel Collection contains documents from a Jewish
resident of Heidelberg who lived underground with forged papers during
the years 1938-1945.
17. There is an extensive photograph collection about the
pogrom of November 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht).
18. The Art Collection of the Institute contains the works of
Kurt Schwesig, Felix Nussbaum and others from 1940-1941 in Gurs; the
works of Bertalan Gondor from Carpathian Ruthenian labor camps in
unoccupied and occupied Hungary, 1944; and Fritz Fabian drawings from
Theresienstadt. These works are described in the Exhibit Catalog for
the Philadelphia Museum of American Jewish History special display
"Art from Concentration Camps," October-November 1978 (cf. Sybil Milton,
"Concentration Camp Art and Artis ts," Shoah, Vol. I, No.2, New York,
October 1978) .
The Leo Baeck Institute Library also contains contemporaneous
Nazi, Jewish, and emigrant memoirs, diaries, and periodicals which
supplement the above-listed archival holdings. Most post~ar monographic literature relevant to research about the National Socialist
state and the persecution of the Jews is also available. The proximity
of the Leo Baeck Institute to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (the
holdings of which were described in the previous issue of the ACHSWW
Newsletter] gives the researcher access to both Western and Eastern
European collections dealing with the period of the Second World War.
The publication of a detailed catalogue of the Leo Baeck Institute is in preparation. Meanwhile, in addition to the finding aids
available at the Institute, detailed information on its holdings also
is available from a number of sources:
Leo Baeck Institute, Inventory List of Archival Collections,
Brochures I & II (New York: LBI, 1971 & 1976)
____ , LBI News, No. Iff., 1960ff. (currently published semiannually)
, LBI Library and Archive News, No. Iff., Feb. 1975ff.
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Query)
Ede1heim-Muehsam, Margarete, ''Das Archiv des Leo Baeck Instituts,
New York ,'" Bulletin des Leo Baeck Insti tuts, Jhrg. III, Te1Aviv 1960, pp. 34-45.
Hadda, Janet, "The Leo Baeck Institute," The Germanic Review,
Vol. L, No.4, November 1975, pp. 243-244.
Hamburger, Ernest, "Das Leo Baeck Institut," Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Jg. 21, 1970, pp. 131-143.
Kreutzberger, Max, unter Mitarbeit von Irmgard Foerg (eds.).
Leo Baeck Insti tut, New York, Bibliothek und Archi v. Katalog,
vol. I. (Tuoingen,1970). Includes Library, Periodical and
Memoirs.
- - - - , "The Library and Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in
New York," Jewish Book Annual, Vol. 29, 5732/1971-1972, pp. 47-54.
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Maier,~ Kurt
S. ~ "The Library of the Leo Baeck Institute," The
Journal of Library History, Vol. XXII, No.2, Spring 1977,
pp. 177-186.
Mason, Philip P., Directory of Jewish Archival Institutions
(Detroit, 1975), pp. 29-38.
Milton, Sybil, 'TIie Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung im Leo Baeck Institut, New York:'IWK (Internationale
Wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen
Arbeiterbewegung, Berlin), Heft 2, Juni 1975, pp. 231-243.
Reissner. H. G., "Veroffentlichungen des Leo Baeck Instituts,"
Historische Zeitschrift, Bd. 102, 1966, pp. 518-528.
Tramer, Hans, !iDie geschichtliche Aufgabe," Bulletin des Leo
Baeck Instituts, Jhrg. I, Tel-Aviv 1957/58, pp. 1-6.
u. S., Library of Congress. The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress, Vol. 1ff., l>lashington
1959ff.)
THE
INST~TUTE
FOR EUROPEAN HISTORY
The Institute for European History is an independent center for historical scholarship housed in the handsomely restored seat of the old
university, the early 17th-century Domus Uni versit:.atis, facing the
great Cathedral of St. Martin in Mainz. It is funded by government.
industry, and foundations. Established after World War II, it has
a Department for the Religious History of the West (Abteilung fur
Abendlandische Religionsgeschichte) under Prof. Peter Meinhold and a
Universal [i.e., Secular] History Department (Abteilung Universalgeschichte)
directed by Prof. Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin.
Equipped with its own well-staffed library with good holdings
in modern and contemporary history (which can be readily augmented
through interlibrary loan), the institute offers research facilities to
visiting scholars and resident fellows. Its fellowships provide a
monthly stipend of DM 920 or DM 1200 to qualified graduate students of
any nation. Fellowships normally are granted for one year, but may be
extended. Manuscripts produced at the institute may be issued in its
publication series, as was the case with the Gottingen dissertation of
this newsletter's editor, Hitler, Franco und Gibraltar, published in
1962 as volume 27 in the monograph series; Andreas Hillgruber's Hitler,
Konig Carol und Marschall Antonescu, vol. 5, 2nd ed., 1965; Hans-Adolf
Jacobsen's Fall Gelb on the planning for the campaign against France,
vol. 16, 1957; ffi1d. more recently, Hans-Jurgen Schroder's Deutschland
und die Vereinigten Staaten 1933-1939. Wirtschaft und Politik in der
Entwicklung des deutsch-amerikanischen Gegensatzes, vol. 59, 1970 (all
published by the Franz Steiner Verlag in Wiesbaden) .
When I returned to the institute this past summer as a visiting
scholar on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant, in order
to edit an OKW War Diary supplement, I met fellowship holders from
Berkeley to Bucharest, including, for example, a British doctoral
student of Prof. F. H. Hinsley, Cambridge, who is working on a dissertation on an aspect of Scandinavian history during World War II. The
atmosphere at the institute was as congenial and as stimulating as I
remember it having been when I held a fellowship there almost two decades
earlier. Now, as then, many of the fellowship holders live in the very
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reasonably priced quarters in the Domus Universitatis, often preparing
and sharing meals in the common kitchen and dining room.
As the titles of its ninety monographs, eighty-nine VortrMge, and
four Beihefte indicate, the Institute of European History is not primarily
committed to contemporary history. As noted on pp. 17 & 18 of the attached
News Bulletin of the International Committee, however, Professor von
Aretin has been active in the attempt to establish a West German Committee on the History of the Second World War. Moreover, members of his
staff, particularly his senior associate, Dr. Hans-JUrgen SchrBder,
are very much interested in the twentieth century.
Members of the American Committee interested in learning more about
the institute, working there themselves, or nominating fully qualified
students for fellowships, should write to Professor Karl Otmar Freiherr
von Aretin at the Institut fUr EuropiUsche Geschichte, Alte Universitiitsstrasse 19, D-6500 Mainz, West Germany. Information on the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) study-visit program that facilitated
my work at the institute this past summer is available from the New
York Office of the German Academic Exchange S_ervice (DAAD) , 1 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N. Y. 10003. The DAAD also offers academic-year-long grants
for graduate students working at institutions such as the Mainz institute,
where, as a matter of fact, a number of DAAD-funded fellows have worked
in past years.
THE LIBRARY FOR CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Founded by the Swabian industrialist Richard Fraack during World
War I as the WeltkriegsbUcherei (World War Library) and reestablished and
renamed after the Second World War, the Bibliothek fUr Zeitgeschichte
(BfZ or Library for Contemporary History) is now housed in Stuttgart, as
an autontomous unit, in the WUrttemberg State Library (which also serves
Stuttgart University). Directed by Prof. JUrgen Rohwer, Stuttgart, who
is also Prases (chairman) of the West German Arbeitskreis fUr Wehrforschung,
an important military research group, the BfZ specializes in the collection of materials on war, revolution, and international conflict in the
twentieth century, including "unconventional literature," i. e., propaganda
pamphlets, underground newspapers, and the like.
The library has not only brought together one of the most valuable
specialized collections of its kind in the world, but has regularly
issued, since 1921 (except 1945-52), an annual bibliography of books
and articles, reflecting its catalogued acquisitions, normally some eight
thousand items annually. As illustrated by the entries in the bibliography
below, the annual issues of the BfZ Jahresbibliographie also include
detailed reports on special areas of research. More extensive treatment,
where this has been called for, has been published in a separate series,
t~e Schriften der Bibliothek fUr Zeitgeschichte, including, most recently,
Josef Schrtlder's invaluable l264-page bibliography on Italy in the Second
World War, which is listed, with other World War II-related volumes in the
series, in the bibliographical section of the newsletter.
The address of the BfZ, which is open weekdays and Saturday mornings,
generally during the same hours as the WUrttembergische Landesbibliothek
in which it is housed, is Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 8, 7000 Stuttgart 1,
West Germany.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Many of the following titles have been listed on the basis of
Library of Congress MARC (machine-readable cataloguing~ data
printouts made available to the newsletter editor, who has compiled the bibliography, by Miss Janet Ziegler of the University Library of the University of California at Los Angeles.
Her cooperation and that of the UCLA Library is sincerely
appreciated.
I.
GENERAL
A.
REFERENCE i DOCUMENTATION i BIBLIOGRAPHY i JOURNALS
1.
2.
Annual Bibliographies of the Library for Contemporary History.
Stuttgart. (Both titles are issued by Bernard & Graefe Verlag,
Hubertusstr. 5, Postfach 380180, 8000 Munich, West Germany.)
a.
Bibliothek fur Zeitgeschichte - Weltkriegsbucherei--Stuttgart. Jahresbib1iographie 1975. Jahrgang 47. Munich:
Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1976. xii & 753 pp. DM 120.00.
Part I carries acquisitions of the BfZ, Part II four reports
on research and literature, including A. Diefenbach's on the
capitulation of the German Wehrmacht and J. Schroder's on
the historical section of the General Staff of the Italian
Army.
b.
Bibliothek fUr Zaitgeschichte - Weltkriegsbucherei--Stuttgart. Jahresbibliographie 1976. Jahrgang 48. Munich:
Bernard & Graefe, 1977. xii & 605 pp. DM 90.00. Part I.
acquisitions; Part II, three reports: G. Buck on military
archives in Germany; P. Klein on the coverage of the
Bundeswehr in the German Democratic Republic, and of the
National People I s Army (of the GDR) in the Federal Republic
of German~ and R. Munnich on the development and utilization of armored forces.
Special Studies of the Library for Contemporary History, Stuttgart. [N.B. Several of the following titles are more monographic than bibliographic iIi character;c as' a _series.howev.er,
this BfZ Schriftenreihe is a basic and continuing reference tool
that can best be appreciated when reported as a whole. The
earlier volumes were published by Bernard & Graefe before it
moved from Frankfurt, but inquiries may be sent to the Munich
address in item LA.l; titles without prices may be unavailable.)
a.
Hillgruber, Andreas.
Sadost-Europa im Zwei ten Weltkrieg.
Literaturbericht und Bibliographie.
Schriften der BfZ,
Heft 1.
150 pp.
Frankfurt am Main:
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b.
Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf.
Zur Konzeption einer Geschichte des
Zweiten Weltkrieges 1939-1945. Disposition mit kritisch
ausgewJihl tem Schrifttum. Bearbeitet unter Mitwirkung von
Joachim Roseler. Schriften der BfZ, Heft 2.
Bernard & Graefe, 1964. 176 pp.
c.
Frankfurt:
Rohwer, Jurgen. Die Versenkung der jiidischen F liichtlingstransporter Struma und Mefkure im Schwarzen Meer (Februar
1942, August 1944). Historische Untersuchung. Schriften
der BfZ, Heft 4. Frankfurt: Bernard & Graefe, 1965.
153 pp. and one map. (Cf. item III.C.5 below.)
d.
Ko'hler, Karl. Bibliographie zur LUftkriegsgeschichte.
Bearbeitet im Militargeschichtlichen Forschungsamt. Schriften
der BfZ, Heft 5. Frankfurt: Bernard & Graefe, 1966. 284 pp.
Part III, pp. 63-188 deals with the period from 1919 to 1945,
pp. 143-186 specifically with World War II.
e.
Schumann, Hans-Gerd. Die politischen Parteien in Deutschland nach 1945. Ein bibliographisch-systematischer Versuch.
Schriften der BfZ, Heft 6.
1967. xxii & 223 pp.
f.
Frankfurt:
Bernard & Graefe,
Gunzenhauser, Max.
Geschichte des geheimen Nachrichtendienstes
(Spionage, Sabotage und Abwehr). Literaturbericht und Bibliographie. Schriften der BfZ, Heft 7. Frankfurt: Bernard & Graefe,
1968, viii & 434 pp. Bibliographical treatment of the history
of espionage in World War II, in the narrow sense, is on
pp. 290-360, but elsewhere the war is touched on in other
contexts. The book has a detailed table of contents outlining its complex but logical structure, as well as three
ind,ices.
g.
Schroder, Josef. Italien im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine
Bibliographie. L'Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale.
Una bibliografia. Foreword by Renzo De Felice. Schriften
der BfZ, Heft 14. Munich: Bernard & Graefe, 1978. Dm 140.00.
137 pp. front matter and 1127 pp. bibliography plus appendices,
ind1~es, etc.
The introductory matter is carried in both
Italian and German, as are the headings in the bibliography.
h.
Buchel, Regine. Der deutsche Widerstand im Spiegel von
Fachliteratur und Publizistik seit 1945. Bericht und
Bibliographie. Schriften der BfZ, Heft 15. Munich: Bernard
& Graefe, 1975. viii & 215 pp. DM 52.00. The introductory
essay (Literaturbericht) is on pp. 1-68, the bibliogrpahy
on pp. 71-215.
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3.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, January 1937 - August
1939. Assembled by the Staff of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. 10 volumes. New York: Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1979. $450,00 if ordered after 1 March 1979,
but $350.00 if ordered before that date. Participants in the
1977 annual business meeting of the ACHSWW in Dallas will
remember the concern aroused by the announcement of the
director of the FDR Library, Dr. William Emerson, that it would
not be feasible for the sequel to the three-volume Harvard
University Press set of papers on FDR and foreign affairs to
be issued in book form (rather than microfilm) because of the
prohibitive cost of printing the substantially larger volume
of material necessary for adequate coverage as war approached.
By facsimile duplication of the original documents as selected
for publication, the cost of setting type has been circumvented
by Garland Publishing, Inc., 545 Ma.dison Ave" New York, N. Y.
10022, already familiar to many ACHSWW members as publfsher
of our colleague David MacIsaac's ten-volume edition of the
u. S. Strategic Bombing Survey (described in the bibliography
of Newsletter 16, item III.D.7, on pp. 22-24). Though expensive, this valuable collection of almost 2000 documents in ten
volumes averaging over 550 pages each (on acid-free paper with
library bindings) is by no means prohibitive, particularly
if ordered at the pre-publication discount.
4.
Benz, Wolfgang; Broszat, Martin; Chamberlain, Brewster S.; and
others. Beitrage aus dem Institut fur Zeitgeschichte. Zum
25jahrigen Bestehen der Zei tschrift. Viertelj ahrshefte fur
Zeitgeschichte, 25.Jahrgang, 4. Heft (Oktober 1977), ed. by
Hans Rothfels, Theodor Eschenburg, and Helmut Krausnick.
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1977. Pp. 423-·932
plus 65-96 (Bibliographical Supplement). DM 32.00 (special
price for special issue). The 540-page 25th-anniversary
issue of the leading West German journal for contemporary
history includes a number of significant contributions by
present or former staff members of the Institute for Contemporary History (Institut fur Zeitgeschichte) in Munich t
including a 66-page report by Lothar Gruchmann on a major
Stockholm research project on Sweden in the Second World Wart
and articles by Wolfgang Jacobmeyer on the Polish resistance
and Martin Broszat on Hitler and the origins of the "Endlosung"-the latter in part a response to David Irving"s Hitler's War.
5.
German Studies Review, vol. I (1978). Edited by Gerald R.
Kleinfeld. Tempe, Arizona: Western Association of German
Studies, 1978. A new journal published in February, May, and
.October, the GSR, with an editorial board including John S.
ConwaYt Edward L. Homze, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, and Joachim Remak t
is the organ of the Western Association of German Studies.
(Its address is P. O. Box 36752 t Tempe, Arizona 85282; the
annual dues, including the journal subscription, are $10.00.)
The first volume of the GSR includes an article by Hans-Adolf
Jacobsen, Vom Kalten Krieg zur Entspannungspolitik in Europa,
1945-1978, a review article by Bradley F. Smith, Two Alibies
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for the Inhumanities (on A. R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth
Century and David Irving, Hitler's War), and reviews of Judith
Gansberg's book on German paws in America, Alan Beyerchen's
Scientists under Hitler, and Heinrich Boll's Einmdschung
erwiinscht (Schriften zur Zeit) •
B.
GENERAL HISTORIES
1.
Cazan, Gheorghe; Zaharia, Gheorghe; and others. Der grosse
Weltbrand des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Translated into German from the second revised and expanded Romanian
edition. Bucharest: Politischer Verlag, 1975. 749 pp.,
including supplementary tables of contents in four other
languages; a detailed chronology; indices of persons, places,
and organizations; and a bibliography of documentary sources
and published works. Many photographs and 33 maps are included
in this history of the war in Asia and Africa as well as Europe.
2.
Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf.
und Strategie
~n
Der Weg zur Teilung der Welt. Politik
1939 bis 1945. Koblenz/Bonn: Verlag Wehr
& Wissen (1978). 672 pp., including a wealth of maps, graphs,
and charts, a hundred-page chronology, a glossary of abbreviations, and an index. DM 48.00. This title might have been
listed above as a documentation volume, but the 280 documents
(some in excerpt, but many complete) are so tightly integrated
with extensive commentary that the work as a whole is an integrated mosaic of the global war.
II.
ORIGINS AND OUTBREAK OF THE WAR
A.
Baumont, Maurice. The Origins of the Second World War. Translated
by Simone De Couvreur Ferguson. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1978. 335 pp. $22.00. D74l .B28l3
B.
Melosi, Martin V.
The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Poli tical Controversy over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946. College Station:
Texas A & M University Press, 1977.
III.
183 pp.
$10.00.
D742.U5 M44
THE WAR
A.
POLITICS, DIPLOMACY, AND GRAND STRATEGY
1.
Doughe rty , James J. The Pol i tics of Wartime Aid: American
Economic Assistance to France and French Northwest Africa,
1940-1946. Contributions in American History, No. 71. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. x & 264 pp. $17.50.
D753.2.F8 D68. Based on a wide range of sources, including
the records of the Foreign Economic Administration at the National
Archives' Washington Records Center at Suitland, Maryland,
the Stettinius papers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and the Morgenthau papers at the FDR Library at
Hyde Park, New York, as well as interviews with Lloyd Cutler
and Robert Murphy, Dougherty's monograph concisely relates the
complex relationship of the administration of the third largest
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U. S. World War II aid progrmn to the conduct of American
policy in French North Africa and France. The volume includes
several appendices, a bibliography, and an index.
2.
Hillgruber, Andreas. Der Zenit des Zweiten WeI tkrieges: Ju1i
Institut fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Vortrage, Nr.
65. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verla.g. 1977. 44 pp. DM 5.80.
In a paper presented at the Institute of European History in
Mainz, the Cologne historian explains that the month of July
1941 was decisive in the course of World War II. The Soviet
Union, reeling under the impact of the Wehrmacht's onslaught,
was considered by many, in London and Washington no less than
Berlin, to be on the point of collapse. The United States
occupied Iceland. Hitler offered the Japanese an offensive
alliance. The Japanese cabinet was reconstituted and Japan
moved into Indo-China. Roosevelt decreed the freezing of all
Japanese credits in the United States and named MacArthur
U. S. Commander-in-Chief in the Far East. This course of
events is familiar, but the mastery with which Hillgruber
demonstrates their interaction on a global scale enables the
reader to appreciate the extent to which the switches were
set in July 1941, lithe zenith of World War II."
1941.
3.
Hillgruber, Andreas. Deutsche Grossmacllt- und Weltpolitik im
19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1977,
389 pp. DM 58.00. A collection of twenty previously published
pieces, several of which, like the above-listed title (which
is not included in this volume), directly relate to the
study of World War II, including considerations of Hitler's
conception of England and America; Japan and the German attack
on the Soviet Union; the "Final Solution" 8.J.ld the Ge rman
Empire in the East as the centerpiece of the racial-ideological
program of National Socialism; Hitler's Mediterranean strategy;
German plans for the capture of Leningrad in 1942; Rundstedt;
the problem of the "Second Front"; and the outcome of the Second
World War. [As noted in the attached International Committee
News Bulletin on pp. 17-18, Prof. Hil1gruber was named chairman
of the West German group engaged in establishing a Committee
o~ the History of the Second World War in the Federal Republic.]
4.
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Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf. Von der Strategie der Gewalt zur Politik
der Friedenssicherung. Bei trage zur deutschen Geschichte im
20. Jahrhundert.
Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1977. 372 pp.
DM 58.00. Like Hillgruber's above-listed volume issued by the
same publishe~ this is a collection of previously printed
articles and essays, including several contributions to the
history of the era of the Second World War, among them pieces
on war as seen in National Socialist ideology and practice; the
Second World War as a research problem; the structure of National
Socialist foreign policy, 1933-1945; the Commissar Order and
mass executions of Soviet POWs; the Battle of Stalingrad; and
the German catastrophe, 1945 .
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5.
Knapp, Manfred, and three others. Die USA und Deutsch1 and
1918-1975. Deutsch-arrerikan.ische Beziehungen zwischen Ri va1itar und Partnerschaft. Munich:
Verlag C. H. Beck, 1978.
254 pp. DM 17.80. Of particular interest here is the third
part of this volume, Das Dritte Reich und die USA by HansJurgen Schroder of the Institute for European History, Mainz,
whose major study on German-American relations during the thirties
is cited in connection with a discussion of that institute elsewhere in this newsletter.
6.
Louis, William Roger. Imperialism at Bay: The United States
and the Deco1onization of the British Empire, 1941-1945. New
York:
7.
Oxford University Press, 1978.
Lukas, Richard C.
D753 .L67
The Strange Allies:
The Uni ted States and
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
$12.50. D753 .L85
Poland, 1941-1945.
1977.
8.
230 pp.
Pommerin, Reiner. Das Dri tte Reich and Lateinarrerika. Die
deutsche Po1itik gegenUber siid- und Mitte1arrerika 1939-1942.
DUsseldorf:
9.
Droste Verlag, 1977.
377 pp.
D75l .P65
Spears, Edward Lewis, Sir, bart. Fulfilment of a Mission:
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books,
1977. D750 .S63
Syria and Lebanon, 1941-1944.
10.
Stoler, Mark A. The Politics of the Second Front: American
Military Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare, 1941Contributions in Military History, No. 12. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977. xiii & 244 pp., including
bibliography and index. D748 .S76
1943.
B.
LAND WARFARE (INCLUDING AMPHIBIOUS & AIRBORNE OPERATIONS)
1.
Allen, Louis. Singapore, 1941-1942. London: Davis-Poynter,
1977. 343 pp., including maps, bibliography, and index.
D767.5 .AS7
2.
Lewi n, Ronald. The Li fe and Dea th of the Africa Korps. New
York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1977. 207 pp.,
including plates, bibliography, and index. D757.55.G4 L48
3.
Mitrovski, Boro; Glisic, Venceslav; and Ristovski, Tomo. The
Translated by
Kordija Kveder. Belgrad: Medunarodna Politika, 1971. 303 pp.
This volume consists of three concise monographs by Dr. Gliaic
(the Yugoslav Committee's representative at the Sofia conference described elsewhere in this newsletter) and Colonels
Mitrovski and Ristovski: 1. The Bulgarian OCcupation Army
Bulgarian Army in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945.
(April 1941 - September 9, 1944); 2. Cooperation Between the
People's Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia and the Anti -Fascist
Resistance Movement of Bulgaria; and 3. Participation of units
of Bulgaria Under the Fatherland Front Governnent in the Fighting
in Yugoslavia Towards the End of the War.
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4. Piekalkiewicz, Janusz. pferd und Reiter im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Munich: Sudwest-Verlag. 1976. 255 pp., including illustrations,
a map, a bibliography, and an index. D794 .P53. [Horses
played a more important role in World War II, particularly in
Eastern Europe, than the latter-day tendency to emphasize armor
and mechanization sometimes suggests. In an appendix based on
OKW records, the former War Diary Officer of the High Command
of the Wehrmacht reported that as of 1 February 1945 the Wehrmacht
had lost over a million horses--37,072 of them belonging to the Luft­
waffe; see Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht,
vol. IV, ed. P. E. Schramm (Frankfurt: Bernard & Graefe,
1961), p. 1512.]
5. Woodruff, William. Vessel of Sadness. Foreword by Martin
Blumenson. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1978. 205 pp. $8.95. PZ4 .W8924Ve. Long­
term members of the ACHSWW will remember that a number of
years ago arrangements were made for the remaining copies of a
British publisher's stock of Vessel of Sadness to be distributed
on a complimentary basis. Virtually unknown in America, Wood­
ruff's intensely personal memoir of Anzio and the battle for
Rome--as seen by the common soldier, but written with extra­
ordinary power--is now available with an introductory note,
setting this modern classic in its historical context, by
Martin Blumenson.
C. NAVAL WARP'ARE
1. Brown, David. Tirpitz: the Floating Fortress. London:
Arms and Armour Press, 1977. 160 pp. D772.T5 B75
2. Buchheim, Lothar Gunther. U-Boat War. Translated by G.
Lawaetz; with an Essay by Michael Salewski. New York:
Knopf, 1978. D78l .B78l3
3. Cook, Graeme. Small Boat Raiders. London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon,
1977. 131 pp., including bibliography. D770 .C635
4. Muggenthaler •. August Karl. German Raiders of World War II.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall. 1977. x & 308 pp.,
including bibliography, illustrations, and index. D77l .M83
5. Rohwer, Jurgen. Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943. Trans­
lation by Derek Masters. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press.
1977. 256 pp., with illustrations, bibliography, and index.
$12.95. D770 .R593l3. A meticulously documented reconstruction
of the turning point of the Battle of the Atlantic by the director
of the Library of Contemporary History described elsewhere in this
newsletter. (The author of a methodologically also very interesting
study of two sinkings in the Black Sea [item I.A.2.c above] as
well as a contribution to the joint AHA-ACHSWW session at the
December 1976 meeting in Washington, D. C. [as reported in News­
letter 17 the following spring], Prof. Rohwer is editor of the
important West German journal of naval science, Marine-Rundschau.)
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6. Roskill, S. W. The War at Sea, 1939-1945. History of the
Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series, vol. 1:
The Defensive.
London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1976.
D771 .R68
7. Snyder, Gerald S. The Royal Oak Disaster. London: Kimber,
1976. 240 pp., with maps, plans, portraits, a bibliography,
and an index, plus 24 pp. of plates. D772.R63 S58
D.
AIR OPERATIONS
Dresden im Luftkrieg.
Cologne & Vienna:
Bonlau, 1977. xv & 342 pp. DM 58.00. Recognized not only as
the standard work on the raids on Dresden, this monograph is
a contribution to the history of air operations during the
Second World War.
1. Bergander, G6tz.
2. Bowyer, Chaz, ed. Beaufighter at
160 pp., including illustrations.
London:
D786 .B39
War.
Allan, 1976.
3. Brunswig, Hans.
Feuersturm iiber Hamburg. Die Luftangriffe
auf Hamburg im Zwei ten Wel tkrieg und ihre Folgen.
Stuttgart:
Motobuch Verlag, 1978.
tions. DM 38.00.
464 pp., including ca. 165 illustra­
4. Deighton, Len. Fi ghter: The True Story of the Battle of Bri­
tain.
Introduction by A.J.P. Taylor. London: Cape, 1977;
New York: Knopf, 1978. 304 pp., including illustrations,
bibliography, and index, plus 20 leaves of plates. D756.5.B7 D44
5. Kurowski, Franz. Der Luftkrieg tiber Deutschland. DUsseldorf:
Econ,1977. 424 pp., including illustrations, bibliography,
and index. DM 36.00. D785 .K87. N.B. A paperback (Heyne
Taschenbuch) edition has been announced for publication in
1979 at DM 7.80.
6. Longmate, Norman. Air Raid: The Bombing of Coventry, 1940.
London: Hutchinson, 1976; New York: McKay, 1978. 2 & 302 pp.,
including illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits, biblio­
graphy, and indices, plus 16 pp. of plates. D760.8.C6 L66
7. Thomas, Gordon, and Morgan-Witts, Max. Ruin from the Air:
The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima. London: Hamilton, 1977.
xvii & 386 pp., including illustrations, bibliography, and
index. D767.25.H6 T53
8. Woerpel, Don.
A Hostile Sky:
The Mediterranean Aixwar of the
79th Fighter Group.
Marshall, Wisconsin: Andon Press, 1977.
xi & 260 pp., including photographs, maps, appendices, biblio­
graphy, and index. Available from the publisher for $19.50
including postage (Box 374, Marshall, Wise. 53559).
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E. RESISTANCE AND PARTISAN OPERATIONS
Bergwitz t Hubertus. Die Partisanenrepublik Ossola. Vom 10. Sep­
terriber bis zum 23. Oktober 1944. Mit einem Vorwort von Edgar
Rosen. Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Sozialgeschichte
Braunschweig t ed. by Georg Eckert. Hannover: Verlag fur
Literatur & Zeitgeschehen, 1972. 165 pp., including biblio­
graphy. A carefully documented monograph on the origins and a
brief history of the anti-fascist republic established on
Lake Maggiore and the Swiss border late in 1944.
F. SUPPORT SERVICES; INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION
&
PROPAGANDA
N.B. For new works on German intelligence and propaganda by
Professors Kahn and Herzstein, respectively, please see items
IV.G.2 & 3 below.
1. Beesly, Patrick.
Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the
Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1945. Fore­
word by the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. London: Hamilton, 1977;
New York: DoubledaYt 1978. xv & 271 pp., with map, illustra­
tions, bibliography, and index. $10.00. D8l0.C88 B43. Former
Deputy Chief, Submarine Plotting Room, the Admiralty, Commander
Beesly participated in a session on World War II Naval Intel­
ligence at the Annapolis Naval History Symposium last fall (1977),
together with Prof. Rohwer (cf. item III.C.5 above), and was
invited this fall to participate in a follow-up conference in
West Germany organized by Rohwer, together with three of our
committee colleagues, Professors Burdick t Deutsch t and Kahn
(cf. item IV.G.3 below).
2. Campbell t Rodney.
The Luciano Project: The Secret Wartime
Collaboration of the Mafia and the U. S. Navy. New York:
McGraw-Hill t 1977. xii & 299 PP't including illustrations t
bibliographYt and index. D8l0.S7 C33
3. Carter, Carol Ie J.
The Shamrock and the Swastika: German
Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto t California:
Pacific Books t 1977. 287 pp.t including illustrations, biblio­
graphy, and index. D754.16 C37
4. HartcuPt Guy.
Code Name Mulberry: The Planning, Building, and
Operation of the Normandy Harbours. New York: Hippocrene
Books, 1977. 160 pp. t including illustrations t bibliography,
and index. D761 .H37
5. Pound t Ezra. "Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World
War II. Edited by Leonard W. Doob. Contributions in Ameri­
can Studies t No. 37. Westport t Conn.: Greenwood Press t 1978.
D744 .P65
6. Rupp t Leila J.
Mobilizing Women for War:
Propaganda, 1939-1945. Princeton t N. J.:
Press, 1978.
D8l0.W7 R8
German and American
Princeton University
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IV.
THE NATIONS AT WAR
A.
ALBANIA
Fusco, Gian Carlo. Guerra d'A1bania.
121 pp. D766.7.A4 F8
Milan:
Garzanti, 1977.
,
B.
BRAZIL
Rodrigues, Agostinho Jose. Terceiro batalh~o, 0 Lapa Azul.
S~o Paulo:
EDAMERIS, 1976. xv & 205 pp. D763.18 R65. A
personal narrative of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the
Italian campaign in World War II.
C.
BULGARIA
1. E1azar, David; Hadjinoko1ov, Vesse1in; Michev, Dobrin; Pana­
yatov, Lyubomir; and Radenkova, Petra. Georgi Dimitrov, 1882­
1949. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia Press, n. d.). 287 pp. Based
on the comprehensive biography of the Institute of History of
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences of the Bulgarian Communist
Party, this is a concise biography of the European Communist leader
who achieved international prominence in connection with his auda­
cious--and successfu1--defiance of his National Socialist prose­
cutors at the Reichstag Fire trial in 1933, became Secretary
general of the Comintern in 1935, a member of the Supreme Soviet
of the USSR in 1937, and founding Premier of the People's
Republic of Bulgaria in 1946.
This and the following two titles were kindly brought to
the attention of the compiler of this bibliography during the
recent conference in Sofia, reported on elsewhere in this news­
letter, by the Chairman of the Bulgarian Committee for the History
of the Second World War, David E1azar, Director of the Institute
of History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2. Vassi1ev, Kiri1, et al. A Short History of the Bulgarian
Communist Party. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia Press, 1977. 392 pp.
Chapter 8, pp. 184-221, by Prof. Vassi1ev (whose keynote paper
at the Sofia Conference in May 1978 is mentioned elsewhere in
this newsletter) deals with the Second World War, during
which Bu1garia--a1though an Axis Pact partner and ally of
Germany--did not declare war on the USSR.
3. Vassi1ev, Kiri1; Sirkov,Dimitar; Gornenski, Nikifor; and
Petrova, Slavka, eds. History of the Antifascist Struggle
in Bulgaria, 1939-1944. Vol. 1,1939-1943; Vol. 2, 1943-1944.
[In Bulgarian.] Sofia: Edition of the Bulgarian Communist
Party, 1976. 382 & 487 pp., with numerous maps, illustrations,
indices, etc. (8 Leva for the two-volume boxed set.) Though not
available in translation, this standard work on Bulgaria in the
Second World War does include summaries in Russian, French,
German, Spanish, and (on pp. 338-345 of vol. 1, and pp. 431­
442 of vol. 2) in English.
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D. CZECHOSLOVAKIA (AND POLAND)
Umbreit t Hans. Deutsche Mi1itarvsrwa1tungen 1938/39. Die
mi1itarische Besetzung der Tschechos1owakei und P61ens.
Beitrage zur Militar-und Kriegsgeschichte. Bd. 18. Stuttgart:
Deutsche Verlagsanstalt t 1977. 296 pp.t including mapSt
bibliographYt and index. D802.C95 U52
E. FINLAND
1. Erfurth, Waldemar.
Der finnische Krieg, 1941-1944. 2nd,
rev. ed., with a foreword by Dietrich Erfurth. Wiesbaden &
Munich: Limes-Verlag, 1977. 327 pp., with illustrations, maps,
and index. D765.3 .E75. A revision of the standard German
account by Dr. Waldemar Erfurth t the German general attached
to the Finnish high command during the war.
2. Ueberschar, Gerd B. Hitler und Finn1and 1939-1941. Die
deutsch-finnischen Beziehungen w~~rend des Hitler-Stalin
Paktes. Frankfurter Historische Abhandlungen, vol. 16.
Wiesbaden: Franz St~iner Verlag, 1978. xii & 372 pp .• with
7 illustrations and 4 maps. DM 78.00.
F. FRANCE
1. Baudot, Marcel, and others. Encyc10pedie de 1a guerxe 1939-1945.
Tournai: Castermann, 1977. 440 pp., including maps, biblio­
graphy, and index. D740 .B52
2. Cherrier,
Marcel, and Pigenet, Michel., Combattants de 1a 1iberte:
,
1a Resistance dans 1e Cher. Paris: Editions soeiales, 1976.
238 pp., with illustrations, bibliography, and index, and 4
leaves of plates. D802.F82 C493
3.
Durand, Pierre. Les Franqais a Buchenwald et a ,Dora: 1es armes
de l'espoir. Preface by Marcel Paul. Paris: Editions sociales,
1977. 318 pp., with illustrations, bibliography, and 8 leaves
of plates. D805.G3 D9
4. Fan, Albert. L 'imperatri ce a des cars aux pieds: l' odyssee
des maquisards de Grandrupt - une page de 1a resistance vosgienne.
Epinal: Editions du Sapin d'or, 1977. 292 pp. D808.F82 V673
5.
Le Languedoc pendant 1a guerre.
Special regional issue of the
Revue d'Histoire de 1a 2erre guerre llOndiale. (No. 112, October
1978), including--to cite only four articles--Cel Carles, "La
'corniche' de Montpellier de
1939 & 1942"; J. Larrieu,
''L'epuration judiciairedans les Pyrenees-Orientales"; R.
Bourderon, "Mouvement de la main-d'oeuvre et S.T.O. dans les
mines du Gard"; and G. Bouladou, "Les maquis de la region de
Montpellier. "
This is the second regional issue of the Revue; the first
was on the Provence area, and a third is in preparation on
Brittany.
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6. Neigert, Marcel. Internements et deportation en Moselle,
1940-1945. Metz: Centre de Recherches, Relations Interna­
tionales de l'Universite de Metz, 1978. 116 pp. ·This monograph
on internment and deportation in the context of the German annex­
ation policy in this part of Lorraine is available directly from
the Centre de Recherches Relations Internationales, Faculte des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines, lIe du Saulcy, 57000 Metz, France,
for 34 FF (ISBN 2-85730-010-7).
7. Poirier, Henri. Un Franqais dans la nuit. Paris: 1a Pensee
universelle, 1976. 245 pp. D802.F P55. A personal narrative
of the underground.
8. Ruffin, Raymond. Les lucioles de lanuit. Preface by Eddy
Florentin. Paris: Presses de la Cite, 1976. 6 & 309 pp.,
including illustrations and bibliography, plus 8 leaves of
plates. D802.F8 R83
G.
GERMANY
1. Beyerchen, Alan D. Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the
Physics Community in the Third Reich. New Haven, Conn.:
Yale University Press, 1978. 299 pp.,with illustrations. An
important contribution to the history of science as well as to
the history of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
2. Herzstein, Robert Edw.in.
The War That Hitler Won: The Most
InfarrKJus Propaganda Campaign in History. New York: Putnam,
1978. $15.00. D8l0.P7 G338. On the basis of data supplied by
the publisher, this work was listed on a Library of Congress
MARC printout, and carried in ACHSWW Newsletter 18 (fall
1977), under the title Victory or Death: Hitler's Pzopaganda
War. The author has not been consulted regarding this title
change (at the time of this newsletter's compilation, he was
representing the ACHSWW at a conference at Budapest), but it
is quite possible that the originally announced title was his
first choice. Final decisions on books' titles, however, unlike
their texts, are not always apt to be under their authors' con­
trol. This may seem surprising, but it reflects the circum­
stance that the production of a large book by an unsubsidized
private publisher represents so great a corporate investment
that promotional considerations almost inevitably enter into
the decision on the title. This evidently was the case with the
following title as well, also a major work of an established
author being brought out by a prestigious publishing house.
3. Kahn, David. Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in
World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1978. xiii & 671 pp.
$16.95. D8l0.S7 K25. Though not listed in an earlier biblio­
graphy under a previously announced title, as in the case of the
volume noted immediately above, this book was reported on
Library of Congress MARC printouts first as Hitler's Oracles
and then as Hitler's Secret Agents. From the very beginning,
however, the subtitle was Gerrran Mili tary Intelligence in World
War II, and that is precisely what this book is about.
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ACHSWW members will remember the paper by Prof. Kahn J author
of another major study, The Codebreakers, at our session on
Allied Strategy and Tactics at the 1976 annual meeting (as
reported in Newsletter 17 the following spring and J more recently, in the Revue d'Histoire de 1a 2eme guerre mondiale.)
Kahn's new book, which grew out of his Oxford doctoral
dissertation (under H.R. Trevor-Roper)J places the German military intelligence organization in the broad context of military
history in general J and recent German history in particular.
On the basis of careful documentary research and extensive
interviewing, he has elucidated the complex interaction of the
various military and party intelligence agencies, focusing on
a number of key episodes to illustrate not only the achievements,
but also the limitations of the fratricidal intelligence community in the Third Reich. In his stimulating conclusion, Prof.
Kahn analyzes the failure of the dictator himself to make
optimaL use of what intelligence there was at this disposal.
Historians of the Second World War will appreciate not only
the scholarly contribution represented by Kahn's work, but also
its readability. It is by no means the last word on German
military intelligence during the Third Reich, but it does
represent a sound point of departure for laym&' and specialist
alike.
H.
4.
Reif, Adelbert, ed. Albert Speer--Kontroverse um ein deutsches
Phanomen. Munich: Bernard & Graefe, 1978. 518 pp., with
contributions by Karl Dietrich Bracher, Lucy S. Dawidowicz,
Joachim Fest, Erich Goldhagen, Robert M. W. Kempner, Alexander
Mitscherlich, H. R. Trevor-Roper, and over a dozen others.
5.
Sydnor, Charles W., Jr. Soldiers of Destruction: The SS
Death's Head Division, 1933-1945. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton
University Press, 1977. xvi & 371 pp., including illustrations,
bibliography, and index. D757.85 .S95. A model study valuable
not only for an understanding of the Waffen-SS, but the Second
World War and the Third Reich. (Professor Sydnor, now at
Longwood College J Farmville, Virginia, worked at Vanderbilt
under the former chairman of this committee, Prof. Charles
Delzell.) .
ITALY
1.
Alberghi, Pietro. Giacomo Ulive e la Resistenza a Modena e Parma.
Modena: Teic, 1976. 183 pp., including illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. D802. 182 M623
2.
Miccoli, Giovanni. Kirche und Faschismus in Ita1ien. Das
Problem einer Allianz. Institut fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz,
Vortrage, Nr. 62. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. This
lecture J held on 26 June 1974 at the Institute for European History in Mainz is a revised version of the Triest historian's '~a
Chiesa e il fascismo," published in Fascismo e Societa i taliana,
ed. G. Quazza (Turin, 1973), pp. 185-208.
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3. Niccacci, Rufino t with Ramati, Alexander. The Assisl Under­
ground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews.
New York: Stein and
Day, 1978. D8l0.J4 N475
I.
JAPAN
Velden, Doetje
van. De Japanese interneringskampen voor burgers
gedurende de Tweede Werel doorlog. The Japanese Civil Intern­
ment Camps During the Second World War.
Second, expanded
edition. Franeker: Wever, 1977. 628 pp., including illus­
trations, bibliography, and index. D805.J3 V4. According to
the Library of Congress MARC printout: "Includes legislation in
Dutch or English. Summary in English."
J.
NORWAY
1. Mez, Lutz. Zi viler Widerstand in Norwegen. Frankfurt: Haag
und Herchen, 1977. 376 pp., including bibliography and index.
D802.N7 M495
2. Solheim, Toro1v. I solnedgangstider: krigsminne 1940-45.
Oslo: Samleget, 1976. 401 pp. D763.N6 563
K.
UNITED KINGDOM
1. Wheatley, Dennis. Stranger than Fiction.
1976. 414 pp. D759 .W47
London:
Arrow Books,
2. Winterbotham, Frederick William. The Nazi Connection.
York: Harper & Row, 1978. D8l0.S8 W53
L.
New
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1. Begay, Keats, and others. The Navajos and World War I I .
Broderick H. Johnson, ed. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community
College Press, 1977. ·D810.I5 N38. Following information on
Library of Congress MARC data printout: "Recorded in the
Navaj 0 language, translated, and edited." "Limited editions
500 copies."
2. Moore, John Hammond.
The Faustball Tunnel:
America and Their Great Escape.
New York:
German POWs in
Random House, 1978.
I
M.
YUGOSLAVIA
Erpenbeck, Dirk-Gerd.
Serbien 1941. Deutsche Militarverwaltung
Studien zur Militargeschichte,
Militarwissenschaft und Konf1iktforschung, Bd. 10. Osnabruck:
Biblio Verlag, 1976. vii & 189 pp., with maps and bibliography.
D802. Y32 S435
und serblscher Widerstand.
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V. THE HOLOCAUST
1. Gutman, Yisrael, and Rothkirchen, Livia, eds. The Catastrophe
of European Jewry: Antecedents, History, Reflections--Selected
Papers. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976. 757 pp., including
bibliographical references and indices. D810.J4 C34
2. Gutman, Yisrael, and Zuroff, Efraim. Rescue Attempts During
the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem Interna­
tional Historical Conference, Jerusalem, April 8-11,1974.
New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1978. D8l0.J4 K48
3. Levin, Nora, and Cos tanza, Mary, eds. The Living Wi tness: Art
in the Concentration Camps. Philadelphia: Museum of American
Jewish History, 1978. 48 pp. Illustrated catalogue of an
exhibit of fifteen artists, with related documentation, in
concentration camps from Auschwitz to Malines, Belgium. (The
cooperative exhibit of seven institutions, including YIVO,
the Leo Baeck Institute, etc., is being held from 18 October
through December 1978 at the Museum, 55 North 5th St., Phil­
adelphia, Pa. 19106, from which the catalogue may be ordered
for $2.50.)
VI •
THE END AND AFTERMATH
1. Backer, John H. The Decision to Di vide Ger1ll3.ny: American
Foreign Policy in Transition. Durham, N. C.: Duke University
Press, 1978. x & 212 pp. $9.95. An authoritative study by
the author of Priming the German Econom,} (Durh,am, N. C.,
1971),who participated in the recent joint ACHSWW-Eisenhower
Institute conference at the Smithsonian Institution on the
postwar occupation of Germany and Japan.
2. De Zayas, Alfred M. Nemesis at Potsdam--The Anglo-AITericans
and the Expulsion of the Germans: Background, Execution,
Consequences. Foreword by Robert Murphy. London & Boston:
Routledge & K. Paul, 1977. xxvii & 268 pp., including illus­
trations, bibliography, and index. D820.P72 G42
3. Lukacs, John A.
D842 .L83
1945, Year Zero.
New York:
Doubleday, 1978.
4. Scharf, Claus, and Schroder, Hans-Jurgen, eds. Politische und
okonomische Stabilisierung Westdeutschlands, 1945-1949. Funf
Beitrage zur Deutschlandpolitik der westlichen Alliierten.
Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte
Mainz, Abteilung Universalgeschichte: Beiheft 4. Wiesbaden:
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. DM 16.00. 93 pp. Expanded and
annotated versions of papers delivered on 26 & 27 November 1976
at a conference at the Institute of European History in Mainz:
Werner Abelshauser, Bochum, on the role of occupation policy
in economic recons truction; Manfred Knapp, Frankfurt, on the
Marshall Plan; Werner Link, Trier, on the participation of American
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labor and business; Gerhard Kiersch, Berlin, on the German
policy of the French; and James P. May, Manchester, and William
E. Paterson, Warwick, on the British Labour Party's concept for
Germany.
5. Smith. Arthur L., Jr.
Churchill's German Army: Wartime Strategy
and Cold War Politics, 1943-1947. Preface by Alexander DeConde.
Sage Library of Social Research, vol. 54. Beverly Hills:
Sage Publications, 1977. 159 pp., including map, bibliography
and index. $6.95, paperback; $14.00, hardback. A provocative
monograph on Churchill's increasingly distrustful, even hostile
policy toward the Soviet Union as the war drew to a close--and
a reexamination of the origins of the Cold War.
6.
TREATIES OF WEST GERMANY WITH THE USSR, etc.
[N.B.
Normal diplomatic relations between West Germany and
several states in Eastern Europe were established after the
war by a series of treaties concluded only at the beginning of
the 1970s. English editions of these treaties and the closely
related Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin are listed below.]
a. The Treaty of August 12, 1970 Between the Federal Republic
of Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Bonn: Press and Information Office, 1970. 204 pp.,
including commentary, chronology, etc. JXl549.Z7R88
b. The Treaty [of 7 December 1970] Between the Federal Republic
Bonn:
200 pp., including
JX697 1970.A5l3
of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland.
Press and Information Office, 1971.
commentary, chronology, and index.
c. The Berlin Settlement; and the Quadripartite Agreement on
Berlin and the Supplementary Arrangements.
Bonn: Press
and Information Office, 1972. 206 pp., including the
3 September 1971 agreements and 17 December 1971 arrangements,
plus related material. JX4084. B38B37
d. Treaty [of 21 December 1972] on the Basis of Relations
Between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German
Bonn: Press and Information Office,
69 pp., including related material. JX1549.Z7G34
Democratic Republic.
1973.
e. Treaty on Mutual Rel ations Between the Federal Republic of
Ger11l2ny and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of 11 Decem­
ber 1973. Bonn: Press and Information Office, 1974.
47 pp., including related material.
HISTORY OF THE SECOND VJORLD WAR
NEWS BULLETIN
No.. 16, SeptembeI' 1978
CireUIllstances over ·which vIe hcrve no control have caused a
consid(~rnble dela;r in publisb.ing this issue, for which we
wish to apologize to our read.ers. It is hoped that, in the
future, we slJ.nll be 8.ble to provide nevIs regularly on the
activities of the International Cornmitt:ee for the History
of the Second World War by publishing two issues of the
BUlletin per year.
The Secretary General
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MEETING OF rfEE
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I.N~EHNATION
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COM.1ViIT~'EE
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JiIS~:OIUCAL
The programma of the 15th International Conference on
Historical Sciences scheduled to take place in Rumania
from 28th August to 3rd September 1980 has been outlined
by the International Historiccu·Sciences Committee (I.C.H.S.)
when the Bureau and the Assembly General convened in Puer·to
de 1a Cruz (Tenerife) from 25th to 30th July 1977, with Pro­
fessor Dr. Ka~l Dietrich Erdmann in the chair.
Thanks to the preparatory work done by the Bureau, the
debates of the Assembly General were constructive. Those
present confirmed that the international bodies affiliated
to the I.CoH.S. woulcl be placed on an equal footing with the
national cOTillllitteesc It can be foreseen that the Assembly
General which will meet during the summer of 1980 will vote
for the required modific.atioD. of the Articles of Association.
However it has been decided [iTrendy that the first two days
of the Congress of 1980 will be dedicated to the activities
of the affiliated international bodies, The next four days
will be reserved for the main topics, the me-thodology problems
and - during afternoons only - the chronological sections c
The guide-line is to submit the main reports (the general
report and the experts' reports) in the morning so that the
af·ternoan will be available foI' discussions However, this
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recommendation does not apply to the international bodies
which will have every latitude in organizing their work as
they see fit. The International Committee for the History
of the Second World War is among the affiliated internatio­
nal bodies.
(Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen)
At the invivation of the Rumanian National Committee, the
Executive Committee of the International Committee for the
History of the Second World War convened in Bucarest on
Wednesday 24th May 1978.
The PRESIDENT, Mr. Henri Michel, opens the meeting at 10.30h
a.m. The following persons are present: 1~. Henri Michel,
President; Messrs. Pavel Jiline, Jovan Marianovic and Arthur
Funk, Vice-Presidents; Mr. Harry Paape, Treasurer. The Secre­
tary General, tir. Jean Van.welkenhuyzen, is absent. The Ru­
manian Committee for the History of the Second World War take
part in the meeting: Mr. Gheorfflu Zaharia, Vice-President;
Mrs. Dr. Viorica Moisuc, Secretary, nir. Constantin Nicolae,
Treasurer. Mr. Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary of the American
Committee for the History of the Second World War, is also
present.
1. Treasurer's report
The TREASURER, Mr. Paape, gives an account of the sUbscription
payments as per 17th M~y 1978. Five countries have not met
their obligations since 19730 Others are in arrear or pay at
irreg~lar intervals. The PRESIDENT remarks that no more news
has been received from the Indian Committee. As to the Indo­
nesians, their Committee have stopped their activities. The
PRESIDENT appeals to the members of the Bureau to bring their
personal relationships to bear in· order that the historians
of these cOillltries may be induced to renew the contact with
the International Committee o
According to the rule, individual members pay a subscription
ree. Eowever, the PRESIDENT has found that this results in
difficulties to the detriment of the scientific activities
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of the International Committee. Under these circumstances,
the question arises whether it VJOuld not be better to exemp·t
until further order the individnal members from paying sub­
scriptions. Their con..n .ection with the International Committee
would mean that they would participate in the scientific
meetingso The President's proposal is adopted unanimously
by the Executive Committee. Mr .. Paape will notify those
concerned of this decision.
The PRESIDENT also suggests that, in view of the efforts to
be made by Rwnania in 1980, this cOlmt:r:'y should be ex:empted
from paying its subscription for 1979 and 1980. This sugges­
tion is adopted unanimously by the Executive Committee .. Spea­
king for the Rumanian, General L'Jaharia expresses his thanks ..
The Executive Committee also adopts the proposal made by
Mr. MICHEL to send, in the autumn of this year, Messrs ..
Zaharia and Roulet to Amsterdam in order to carry out the
statutory aUditing of the Treasurer's account.
2. New
membershi~
The PRESIDD~T announces that three applications for member­
ship have been received: one individual application: 1~.
Baptiste, of the Island of Trinidad (The University of the
West Indies); an application of Tunisia, r3ceived through
the intermediary of two bodies, the National Tunisian Com­
mittee for the History of the Second World War and the
Historical Service of the Army, and of a number of Univer­
sity Professors; another application has been made by Cuba
through the Historical Service of the Army .. The Executive
Committee unanimously decides in favour of these three new
memberships.
The PRESIDENT then mentions the outlook for the Latin American
countries becoming members. This possibility is taking shape
thanks to the effort of the Historical Committee of the Insti­
·~uto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia of Caracas. These
countries are likely to present their applications at the
colloquium to take place in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil from
17th to 21st July 1978.
The attention of those present then turns to Spain. Specifi­
cally, mr. FUNK asks whether the history of the civil war is
within the terms of reference of the International Committee.
Mr. MICHEL replies that the period with which ,the International
Committee is concerned covers the years 1933 to 1939 which ipso
facto includes the Spanish civil war o He expresses the opinion
that a colloquium on this SUbject would be of great interest ..
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As regards the matter of possible new membershipst the PRESI­
DENT voices his regret that China does not yet participate
in the activities of the International Committee. He stresses
the important role plaid by this country against Japanese
aggression.
General JILINE wishes to know the International Committee's
view with regard to initiatives relating to the history of
the Second World War organized at regional level with inter­
national participation. The PRESIDENT points out that the
International Committee has no monopoly at all o Therefore,
he welcomes local initiatives that will promote understanding
of the various aspects of the history of the Second World War.
Depending on the amount of information supplied to the Inter­
national Committee by the organizers of the programme on the
contents of the colloquia e..no. the requests for help, he will
be able to keep the specialists informed on the debates either
by means of the Bulletin or by the Revue d'Histoire de la
Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale.
3. Programmes of the colloguia until 1980
The PRESIDENT explains that the International Committee should
consider the following choice of subjects for the colloquia:
- impo7·tant topics and topics of a general nature that regard
all countries when the colloquia are organized within the
framework and on the occasion. of world congresses (Moscow
in 1970, San Francisco in 1975. Bucarest in 1980);
- tqpics of regional interest in trying to get a better un­
derstanding of specific moments, typical phenomena of spe­
cific geographical zones, of specific countries or groups
of countries during the Second World War;
- topics of national interest for colloquia concerning the
position, action, and situation of a specific country
during the war.
Mr. MICHEL stresses that also in this case, the Bulletin
divulges the programma of colloquia. In addition, he re­
commends that, when these colloquia of regional or local
interest are held, contributions be included to promote
comparative history.
The PRESIDENT sums up the international colloquia to be held
from MuY 1978 to October 1980:
- Sofia, 27th and 28th May 1978: The Resistance in the coun­
tries of the Tripartite Pact, colloquium organized by the
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BulgariLill Committee for the History of the Second World
War;
- Helsinlti, 2nd to 6th Juno 1978: Tlle q:r~a"t .E.0]Yers and the
Nor<!i.c coun~~i;.~§...j.941-:12:!:2 and !h£_9rF;)8!li z at.i on of the
H.igh .9.2Elm-and*d~~*:ru$.._t}1~ ~)ccolld \yorld \'!cg:, organized by
the FlI.I1u.snCOL1lDJ.tt:ee tor the II~story of the Second Vlorld
War, the Finnish Committoe for Military History, and the
Institute of Ivlilitcu7 Sciences of the Finnish Army;
- Rio de J1.:U1eiro,17th to 21st July 19'78: The.military",
di.I?lom<.l~~9r_.8~C?:9JlC?mic.J2.W'ticil?at~.(~.~_of.Brazil in, t1;t~
tf~.co.nsl.'iorld V/8-!:, colloqluum orgQ,."'1lzed by the BraZlllBn
Ihstoric al and Geographic Institute, the Institute of
Military Geography and History of Brazil and the Brazilian
Committee for the History of the Second. World Wax;
- BUdapest, 2n9- to 4th N?veJ~ber 1978: ~p;e _war E:r?J?aganda_. c~q
the c1C1.l'ldestl]le P~._:}}~ f:.lout)~ Eqp_i-A.~E.0:ee d\drlng ~qe. .l:.iEl::,
cond V/orld.JVor 19L~.J-1.94:2, organized. by the Hun.garian Com­
mittee for the Irlstory of the Second World War;
- Ankara, 1979 (date to be established later): !Urke~
neighb2uring .£~un~ries d~j~g the Se~ond.~orld W~, orga­
nized by the II1urlnsh Comrni ttce for the Ih.story of the
Second World War (1);
- Bucarest, 28th August to 3rd September 1980 (see below);
- Paris, October 1980: Th~~feat o~ !Y~0et 1st Sept~~er
1239 - July 1940, orgmuzerl by the French Cowttee for
the History of the Second Wo"cld Wa:r.
y~.
1UffiIANOVIC announces that the Yugoslav Committee intend
to organize, in four or five years, a colloquium on The G~rman
minorities in the countries of Central Europe during the Second
World Ware
Mr. MICHEL appreciates that this topic is of great interest.
Yet, he proposes to extend this topic to include the minori­
ties of the Axis Countries and their action in the c01mtries
of ~Urope during the Second World War. In fact, he is of the
opinion that the activities of the 115th Column" for the Axis
have benefited generally from a considerable and specific
support given by these minorities.
(1) Stop press: Since then, the Turkish Committee has
proposed to organize the colloqtuum in 1981.
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The Executive Committee retains the proposal in an amended
form to be specified later.
The meeting is adjourned at 12.30h.
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The PRESIDENT, Mr. Henri Michel, re-opens the meeting at
15.00h. '.rho meeting is attendecl by the same persons as
during the morning meeting.
4.
Col~£9.~iurn
in Bucarest in 1980
The PRESIDENT requests the Executive Committee to debate
the matter of the orgal1ization of the Bucarest colloquium
on the topic The J2,ro.p-'arelJ.d.a durins "tq~ .,Second World W~,.
which will be held within the frDJJlework and during the five­
yearly Congress of Historical Sciences.
General ZAHARIA points out that the 15th International Con­
gress of Historical Scienc8B will be held in Bucarest from
28th August to 3rd September 1980. Rumania will take care
of the physical orgffilization of the congress. All the neces­
sary information will be givon in good time, specificc:.lly as
regards entry fees and accommodation arrangements. The Ru­
maniar.. National Committee for the orGanization of the con­
gress will include representatives of the Rwnanian COIDJnittee
for the History of the Second World War. The latter Committee
will organize the colloquirun under the aegis of the Internatio­
nal Conuuititee for the History of the Second World War.
The ensuing debate mllices it clear that the Executive Committee
of the International Committee for the History of the Second
World War will have two working meetings, one before and one
after the colloquium. As regards the Committee, it will have
its statutory five-yearly assembly during the Bucarest Congress~
The work of the colloquium will take a day and a half. The
working languages are Rumanian, French, English, and Russi an.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided. The colloquium
will be opened by a Rumania.11. autilOrity. Its sittings will be
presided over by the President or by members of the Executive
Committee.
The nrunes nnd Christian names of the rapporteurs, stating
their titles, qualifications and functions, and the titles
of the reports should be in Bucarest by 31st December 1978.
Written in one of the official languages, the reports must
-7be submitted in Bucarest in fou:r copies by 31st May 1979 at
the latest 1J.1hey should be sen:1:; to the following add.l'ess:
&)
Institutul de Studii Istorice si Social-politico,
Rumuna pentru Istoria Celui de al Doilea
Razboi T,·londial
Comi~,i(l
79000 BUCAHE3T I,
Rou.manie ~
2_1~, rue Ministcrului
li'ollowing a sugge siJj on made by General JILINE, the EXGcuti vc
COJJJltli ttoe feels tlw.t the tusk of tho Hmuonian ComIllittee would
be relieved if the reports were translated into the official
languages before being sent to Bucarest.
Before the col1oquium~ the HumaniEl.n Committee will publish
a volume containing the reports mId co-r~ports in the
lo..nguages in which they have been sent to Bucarest. The Vlork
of the colloqu.ium will be published under the n8me "Proceedings
of the Historic al Congress, Buc arest, 1980 ".
The RUJnrmi all Conuni ttee for the History' of the Second World
will prepare an estimate of cost of the colloquium. The
Executi ve Comillittee of the Internationa.l Committee will then
establish the amount of its contribution.
Following this, scientific prl)olems are C'.iscussed. The
PHESIDENT again mentions the topic of the colloquium: liThe
propaganda during the Second 'Norld Vlar - methods, aim, resuIts I f . He stresses the complexity of the sUbj oct and out-lines a few aspects that should not be neglected in conducting its stUdy, which must be as complete as possible. It
goes
without
that the
VG.l'ious camns must be . taken
.
. .saying
.
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J,nto conslderatlon: the Axl.s Powers and ·the countrles occupied by them, the nations of the allied camp, the neutral
countries, without forgetting the II captive societies" (con..,.
centration camps, prisoner of war camps). ill addition to the
territorial differences, ther'e are differences which are a
function of ~ime. Also, the institu~i2p~ for the organization
and diffusion of propaganda lIlUSt be studied. Another import81lt
aspect is concerned wi tIl the ~cJ:mi(llies.. An import ant novelty
has been the lien masse II use of broadcasting. The periodical
presn or pamphlets have also been usod, in addition to cinema
films, photography, posters., not to mention the graffiti and
mass manifestations. The ob 1i.QcE of propaganda varies with the
countries, theatres of operations, Bncl the soci al categories
which are its target. It modifies itself with the progress
of the war, the interests involved, cmd the internal or
extornal factors • .TI'inally, it is important that an effort
should be made. to meaBu:re the §ffi.cicn:.~ of this propaganda.,
although stu<lYlng this is fin" from easy.
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General JILINE presents an extensive expose 011 the propa­
ganda made in the Soviet Union agai.nst the Hitler war.
The PHESIDEN'.r mentions the titles of the reports that have
already been announced" He expresses the opinion that all
these projects relate to subjects of too general a nature~
The Kx:ccut:i.vo Commi.ttee 'lmanimously decides to ask the rap­
porteurs to outline their subj Gct more precisely. The debate
then turns to the nUTilber of reports. 'llhe Executive ComIlli ttee
unl:lnimou,~;ly 0.Gcidcd to accept 18 reports of 15 to 20 pages,
the con bents of' which CLll be cOJTununicated in about 20 minutes.
In 8.(1d.ition~ followinc; a proposal made by the President, the
Executi ve COInmi ttee lLY1[milfiousl;y expresses the opinion that
Humania, France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the U.S.A.,
YUQ;oulavi Ll., tho Germon Democratic Republic and the Federal
Republic of Germany should each present t,,ro reports. One
report will be the oub~1ect of the expose on the agenda of
the sitting, while the other ir:; simply '1:;0 be edited and
distributed. The debates will be concerned with these two
reports.
General J'IIIIl'TE proposes: 1. the propaganda for the liberation
war of the U ~H "S.S.; 2. the propuga.T1da for the front press,. In
addition, the Soviet delee;ation will present other conuUlmi­
cations"
Mr. I~IANOVIC suggests: the main problems of the propaganda
for the liberation war of Yugoslavia.
Mr. PAAPE announces: the propaganda of the Resistance in
occupied Holland.
General ZlililillIA proposes: the propaganda of the Resistance
ahd the anti-Hitler war in HUJIlania; 2. the propaganda of
em~grated Rumanians for the liberation of the country.
The Executive Corruni ttec expresses its approval of the
prop:lBed topics.
5.
The News Bulletin
The pm~SIDEN'r explains why a delay has occurred in pUblishing
the Bulletin. Due to illness of the Secretary General, Mr.
Paape will meet Mr. Vanwelkenhuyzen, and together they will
take measures to ensure that from this summer, the Bulletin
will re-appenr. The Executive Committee approves this proposal.
~~he
PHESIDENT prevails upon the members of the Executive
Committee to promote a wid.est possible distri.bution of the
Bulle·tin.
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Mr o DE1rWlLER says that, as far as he is concerned, the
Americ8...'1 Comrnitteo will have the BUlletin reproduced, and
will distribute it to a laJ... ge ntL"'llber of iIi.terested people
in the U.S.A.
Mr .. Ji'UNK notifies the :ExGcutive Committee that the American
Committee has deGic1cd. to include, in their ovm bulletin
(Newsletter) a pd.de to the American sources for the histo­
ry of the Seco:ncl '.'Iorld \'J 6.r .. A fruitful co-operation has been
eE;t;ablished with the are-hives of the Department of State and
wi th other archive facilities o
The PH.E;~IDENT conc;ra-Lulo:!:;cr:; the Am.el~i cnn Committee on this
iui tiative and a:r~peals to the members of the International
Committoe to support ito
The sittinG is broken off at 18.0011. 0
(By VioricaMoisuc)
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L:Elf;DEH~)HIP
CHANGE.S IN THE NATIONA.1J C0MII'1ITTEES
GREECE~ -The Greek Committee for the History of the Second
World 'Nor held their first meeting on 8th December 1977. 'rhe
Committee is composed as follows: President: Professor
Panagiotis Kmlollopoulos; Vice-President: Professor Diony­
sios Zakythinos; Secretary General: Dr. Eleutherios Preve­
lakis; members:: Professors Angelos Angelopoulos, Gregorios
Kassi:natis, Menelaos Pallantios, Jolm Theodoracopoulos,
PanaGiotis Zepos.
The Grc<5k Committee have nominated their Secretary General,
Dr. Eleutherios Provelakis, to represent them with the
International Committee for the History of the Second World
War. Dr .. E. Prevelakis is Directo:l.' of the Kentron }~I'evnis
Hi:,l;o:l'ian Ncoterou HellcnisItlou (ReseaJ... ch Centre for the
study of the MOd"oi"'n Hiifory' of Greece) of the Academy of
Athcnl3. l~dd.resB: 1 L+., rue Anagnostopoulo, Athens 136, Greece.
(Dr. Eleutherios Prevelakis)
HUNGARY .. - A change has occurred in the direction of the
lIul1C;lJJ:'iL1.D. Commi tteo. Professor Hendrik Vass will remain
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Presidento However, in view of his many obligations, he
will share the direction of the Comraittee with Professor
Gyorgy Ranki, Vice-President. From now on, Professor G.
Ranki will liaise with the International Committee.
(Henrik Vass)
SWITZEHJjju~DOll - A Swiss Committee for the History of the
Second World War has been set up under the presidency of
Professor Louis-tdouord Roulete In addition to the Presi­
dent, his Bure8u vJill include Messrs. Walther Hofer, Phi­
lippe Mare;uerat, Miss Mnr;y::;e Surdo ,:,.. T'!lembers of the Com­
mittee are: Messrs .. Erwin Bucher~ Yves Collart, Oscas Gauye,
Georg Kreis, Andre Lasserre~ Miklos Molnar, Ladislas Mysy­
rowicz, Roland Ruffieux, Klaus Urner.
(Louis-:f;douard Roulet)
TUNISIA o - There has been formed a TQ~isian Committee for
the History of the Second World War, including: Colonel
Bechir Ben-Alssa, Director in the Ministry of National
Defence, Mr. Mohamed Azouz Cherif, Deputy Director Rt the
IVdnistry of Economic Affairs, and M:ossrs. Mahmoud Ben-Ali,
Bechir Tlili and HamacJi Cherif. Ac1c.b:-oss: Service Historique
de 1 t Arm6e, Ministere de 10. D~fense Nationale, 1, boulevard
Baab-Menara, Tunis.
(Abdelhamid Hamza)
IV. ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL
COb~ITTEES
BELGILHH. The Centre for Research and Historical StUdy of
the Second World War made a large contribution to the in­
ternational historical colloquium lIThe Resistance Movement
during the Second World Vlar ll , organized at the f1Domaine du
Rond-Chene II by the General DirectioD. of the Organization of
Studies of the Ministry of Education on 28th and 29th Novem­
ber 1977. Intended for teachers of history of secondary schools,
it was directed by 1~. Rene van Santbergen, Inspector. His re­
port was published in issue 54 of CLIO, journal of the Peda­
gogical Centre of History. In addition, a research officer
of the Centre for Research and H:i,.storical StUdy of the Second
World Vlar, Mr. Jean Dujardin, compiled an important pedago­
gical file also for teachers of history of secondary educa­
tion, following another initiative of the Ministry of Educa­
tion. It is called 'IResistance and Repression fl and consists
of two volumes. The first includes 811 introduction, various
extracts of books and a bibliographical orientation. The
second volume contains thirty full-page illustrations. The
Centre itself has published a bibliography 1970-1975 (Wim
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Meyers), a repertory of photographs of Belgium during the
occupation (Frans Selleslagh) and various stock-lists (W.
Steenhout, M. van de Steen, J. Gotovitch). The. Centre also
made contributions to radio broadcasts (a. serial on prisoners
of war, ffild another on political prisoners) and to television
(tlu"'ce progr8Jnmes about the Phony Vlar). However, its main ac~
tivitieB a-re concerned with tracing sources of history and
assisting Belgitm 8...11d foreign visitors who turn to the Centre
in increasing nwnbers.
(Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen)
BRAZIL. In Rio de Janeiro, an international colloquium on:
I'Brazil's military, economic c:md diplomatic participation
in the Sacond World War" was held at the Historical and
Geographic Institute of Brazil from 17th to 21st July 1978.
It vIas orgro1ized by the Historical and ,Geographic Institute
of Brazil, the Institute for Iv1i.J.i tary Geography and History
of Brazil, and by the Brazilian Committee for the History of
the Second World War. The progrwrune was as follows:
~ond..&
17th Jul;L 19Z§.:
The colloquium is opened by Professor Pedro Calmon;
- Brazil's entry into the Second World War on the side
of the Allies, by Marshal Oswaldo Cordeiro de Farias;
- Brazil's foreign policy during the Second World War,
by Ambassador Alvaro Te:Lxera Soares.
Tuesdgz 18th July 1978:
- The interior political situation in Brazil, before,
during and after the Second World War, by Professor
Nelson Omegna;
- The contribution made by the Brazilian economy to the
Allied victory - the economic mobilization, by Profes­
sor Mircea Buescu.
Wec1nesd. a:l 19th Jul:l 1928:
- The Allied strategy dtiring the Second World War,
by General Hei tor de Almeida Herrera;
- The military co-operation between Brazil and the
United States, by General Aguinaldo Jose Senna Campos.
Thursdgy 20th Jul:l 1928:
- The Brazilian Navy during the Second World War, by
Admiral J"oao do Prado Maia;
- The presence of the Brazilian ~~editionary Force
(F.E.B.) on the Italian battle field, by Colonel
J.V. Portella F. Alves.
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FridG! 21st July 1928:
- The Brazilian Air Force in the Second World War ­
operations in the air over the South Atlantic, by
Lieutenant-Brigadier Nelson Freire Lavenere Wanderley.
The conclusions of the colloquiwil have been described by
General Edmund.o de Macedo Soares e Silva and Professor Pedro
Calmon respectivelyo
Simultaneously with the colloquium, the Brazilian Committee
for the History of the Second World War has orga.'1ized a
series of exhibitions: the first, on the Brazilian Expedi­
tionary Force, the second, on the participation of the Navy,
the third presents docwnents on the Army nnd the Air Force,
and the fourth show-ine; photographs and books on -the Second
World War. (General EdmUXldo de Tlbcedo Soares e Silva.)
The French Committee for the History of the Second
World Wnr has held its meetings of departmentoj. correspondents
regularly in the autUlnn cmd in the spring of each year: in
1976: 2 meetings in 1)ari3, l1· in the country (Laval, Dijon,
Agen, Nimes); in 1977: 2 meetings in Paris, 4 in the country
(Mi3..COn, Angoulerne, I?odez, ~rD.rbes); rmd finally in 1978: 1
meeting in Draguignan, and 1 in Paris. Also, there have been
plenffi~y annual sittings of its Assembly in Paris in April
1977 and in April 1978.
FR1~CE.
Two neN working parties have recently been formed, or are
now being formed:
1) in 1976 the Commission for the History of the French
Empire, which since its inception has convened six times;
a paper was read by Mr. Rene Pleven, former Cabinet Minister,
former member of tho CoF.L.N o , Algiers, on the African Con­
ference of Brazzaville (February 1944), which he chaired;
in 1977, Mr o Mahfod Kaddache, Professor in the University
of Algiers, lectured upon the relations between comm.unists
and Algerian nationalists from 1936 to 1945; finally, in
1978, the Commission heard a lecture by Mr. I(raiem (Tuni­
sia) on the national Tunisian movement during the Second
World War the role plaid by the Neo-Destour).
2) The Committee for ReliGious Histor;y:, under the presidency
of Mr. Jean-Marie Mayeur, Professor in the University of
Paris-XII, that will start their work at the beginning of
the academic year in the autumn of 1978, their subject
being religious life - specifically in France - bet"veen
1939 and 19 l }5o
In addition, tho Committee
fo~
Economic and
S~cial
History
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convened in January 1977 to heftr a lectm."'e by rJIr. Bloch­
Laine, and held a debating-meeting with Mr. Gaston Cusin,
former Commissioner of the Republic in J30rdcaux, at the
Liberation, 011 post-war financial problems" In March tims
n , r . ·t·
of" .,.. I"T·].j t· ') 'Tr 1J ' ,."., ')'nl' 1·
'd a 1 ec t u:r.:'
e
year, th
~ e ~i0;~~.:..l.:..~._=:..o-"" 111,:,:,=-:.::'1..t?:~ __Q-~'2.~';"4).leaJ.
by VJ:i,ng-COIJDTIEltldcI' Ho.~'13iil{GrGat-,·.t3.t'J..ta:Ln) on the IIFree
l"rench. Air Force n in G:coat Britain, which was a reply to
the paper read in the autumn of 1977 l)y General Christionne,
Head of the Historical~;erv:i.ce of the ]~;rench Air Army. Wi thin
the terms of reference of the sallie Committee, fu.rther meetings
of 'l;his t;ype ha'lTo been planned between French and foreign spe­ cialists on SUbjects concerning the Army.
L
Good progress is mad.e w.-U.ih the surveys conducted by the
of the Historical Committee" We specially
would like to mention the eXDnlination concerning the "re_
pres::;ion of F'.1l1.ti-natiol1aJ. practices during the Liberation 11
which has been completed in 75% of the departments of Fr&~ce.
This ~::rtudy disproves what has been claimed by Robert Aron in
his book "Histoire de 1 t opuration II (History of the purge)).
Another survey relating to lIThe collub,oration movement in
the two zones II is also \'1011 under way: completed in 20 depart­
ments, it makes good progress in 54% of the others.
corr~;Gpond(mts
An inquiry into the labour situation is 1L.'1der way in
57
departments and has been completed in 12. Two recent studies
on business compa~ies a~d demographic problems are being
carried out in 17 and 1l~ departments respectively. The chro­
nology of the Resistance is virtually completed in all depart­
ments.
French-German
collog~i~
From 10th to 12th March 1977, the first; session of a French­
Gennan colloquium was held in Paris in the Pa1ais du Luxem­
boureo The discussion theme was IIFrance arid Germany from 1932
to March 1936 11 • The importance of this colloquium - the first
encounter between French and German historians for the purpose
of studying this theme - was stressed by the reception offered
to a few participants by the President of the French Republic,
and ;mother given to all those who attended the colloquium by
the President of the French Senate.
Following the practice of all the bi-national colloquia or­
ganized by the Committoe for the History of the Second World
War, teams of two members, one German, one French, were formed
to study a subject jointly. There were -three such themes: the
image of the other; economy and rearmament; general politics.
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Mr. Henri Michel has Slumn.ed up the conclusions of the collo­
quium. There will be [mother meeting in Bonn, Western Ger­
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many, from 26th to 29th September next on the theme: "France
and Germany, March 1936 to September 1937".
(Morianne Ranson)
GREAT-BRITAIN. Under the pa1jronage of the British Ac ade1Tl,,-y:,
the British COlTunittee for the History· of the Second WorId
War organized a colloquil.Ull at the ID.12.~I'i. ~ar M~~ in
Lond.on from 24th to 2'(th October 1'9'7'7, the subj ect being
"The Allied exile gov8:J:'nments in London during the Second
World Vlar ll • The working principle was to present on each
government a report made by an expert from the COlliltry con­
cerned and 8I!other prepared by a British specialist, viz.:
for Norway, Dr. Olav Riste and Professor Peter Lud.low; for
the NetherlEUlds, Dr. J.1Quis de Jong and Mr. Philip Bell; for
Belgium, Professor Jacques Willequet; Bnd Professor Geoffrey
War~er; for Luxemburg, Professor Emile Haag; for Poland,
Commander B. Wronski and Dr. Antony Polonsky; for France,
Dr. J-eon-Paul Cointet oncl Profes:c-;or Doufilas Johnson; for
Yugoslavia, Professor S. Pavlovic and Miss Elisabeth Barker;
for Greece, Dr. Richard Clo~g and Dr. John Koliopoulos; and
for Czecho-Slovakia, Professor V. Mastny and Sir William
Barker. At the last sitting, a few initial, valuable conclu­
sions were d.ravm, the more so as they were based on en inter­
change of views between experts.
NETHERGll1iDS. Since its inception in 19l~5, the Netherlands
S·tate Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam has al­
ways been regarded as a temporary establishment. In 1976,
the then Secretary of State for Education and Science set
up a working party to investigate whether the work assigned
to the Insti~ute was to be continued or stopped; they re­
commanded that the Institute be dissolved in 1985.
Disregarding the working party's recom.m.endations, the Minist'er
of Education and Science has now decided that the Institute
will continue to exist also after 1985. The Cabinet Minister
expressed the opinion that for the generations now living it
is necessary to have at their disposal a fully equipped and
well st£ufed documentation centre on the Second World War.
The Minister feels that the State Institute for War Documen­
tation, ·working the way it is, fully justifies its existence"
In November 1977, Dr. L. de Jone; published a collection of
treatises and lectures entitled. II Tu.ssentijds" Historische
Studies." (Interim. HiEltorical Studies It). Inter alia, this
volume contains a noto dating from 1949 on the desirability
[lnd preparatiQn of a history of the Ne'therlands during the
Second World War with clue consideration to the possibility
of having several authors co-operating on this project. This
dovetails with Dr. de Jong's first; quarterly report after he
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had been commissioned, in 1955, as sole author,; to pUblish
a mu.lti-volume work under the title 1I;1'he Kingdom of the
Netherlrmds du.ring the Second World War I I . The volume also
contains three lectures held before the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Sciences, vizo about Queen Wilh.elmina in Lon­
don, the secr~t Dut.?h cor~~acts during the Ilneutralit;y­
per~od
from bcptemtJcr 1 Cjj9 to Ma;y 19/+0, and a memorlal
lecture on the histo.r·i[ill, .Jacqll.eS Presser, author of such
works as tho great historJr of the prosocution of the Jews
in the Netherlands" Tvm scrupulously conducted studies
refute allc~a~ions made by Rimmler's luassagist, Felix
Kersten~ W1cl by Richnrd Gerken, an ~'J\hwep..rll officer. In
his memoir-f], Kersten had given the impression that thanks
to him a plcm for the deportation of a large pe.rt of the
Nether181lds population did not materialize; Gerken had clai-·
med that the "Abweb.r" had had a connection with a fJtraitor ll
in the Netherlands General Heo.dquartiers, in which allegations
the name of the mall later to become the Head of the Nether­
lands General Staff was mentioned c
II
In April 1978, volume 8 of the afore-mentioned historical
work of Dr o de Jong was pUblished under the title "Prisoners
and deportees", also in two volumes comprising more than 1.000
pages altoe;ether. Following a detailed introduction on the
set-up and organization of the German system of concentration
camps, a description is given of the fate of Dutch pri.soners
of war, hostages, political prisoners and Jews, making fre­
quent use of personal memories A separate chapter deals \vi th
the assistance to prisoners in the Netherlands and Germany
and to deported Jews o
0
In 1976 and 1977, the first two vol\uaes were published in
the series "DoCUIuentcm betref ~en.sle de-:!?ui ten~8p.g.se politi·el£
van NederlB!.ld 1'219-19.1211 (DoCUIl1ents relating to the forelgn
po'licy of tl1<:: hetherlcUlds 1919-1945), a publication drawing
on sources edited by Professor A.F. Manning, of the Univer­
sity of Nijmegen, and A.E. Kersten, on the years of war. The
first volume published comprises the period 10th May to 31st
October 19Lj..O, the second covers the time from 1st November
1940 till 31st May 1941. The printed documents in these
volumes relate to the activities of the Dutch government
during the first phase of their ,?xile in London, the relati­
ons with the British government and with the as yet unoccu­
pied Netherlonds East Indies, the internment in that area of
German nationals, and tho German countermeasures in occupied
HollEmd o Many dOCUIDGnts are re-printed on the discussion
about a possible re-location of the seat of the Netherlands
government to the Indios, staff conferences between the Nether­
lands and BritiSh militalJT in Singapore and the negotiations
with a Jap[UleSe trade mi~H:Jion in Batavia.
(Ed. G. Groeneveld)
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POLAND. From 6th to 9th September 1977, the Palais Staszic
at V/arsaw was the venue for Bll international colloquium
"Wojna a kultura - War and. cultu..re" organ.ized by the Polish
Committee for the History of the Second World War. The collo­
quium was attended by GO foreign his'Gorians from 20 different
countries .. They had. boen able to familiarize themselves Viith
the Embject already' since all the participa."l'lts had previously
received a vollllne with the siS'1:J.ific ant, title !lInter arma non
silent muoae" comp.rioin[~ the principal reports. Since then,
syntheses were presented. at 4he sittings and new facts and
fiGures "'Jere added to the sU_bj Get matter.. On the first day,
Tuesdoy 6th September, after the colloquium had been opened,
wit~l Dr. 8tanislav Lorentz in the chair, and the official
speeches had been held, Dr. Gzeslav Madajczyk presented his
general report on cultl"l.re under conditions of the "tot al war I! ..
The theme for the afternoon was the Thirc Reich, its allies
and cultureo The subject was introduced by Dr. Hubert Orlowskis
The next da"y, Wednesdoy ?th September, was concerned with
culture in the occupied countries. Its introduction. was made
by Dr o AleksBllder Gieysztor o The non-occupied allied countries
and culture was the subjoct of the work done on Thursday 8th ..
Dr .. Marian Drozdowski delivered the initial report. All these
subjects resulted in a grea.t deal of communication. Dr. Czes­
lav Madajczyk returned to the floor to deliver the final speech,
and Dr. Stefan Kienicvlicz closed this colloquium, the theme of
which was both comprehensive rllld new. In addition, there is
not only doubt that no place bette::.:' than Warsaw could be found
to broach this sUbject. This was underligned by Mr. He:lri Michel
in a message he addressed to the organizers: "Rarely has the
theme of a discussion been more compatible with the sitting in
which the discussion took place. True, all the nations tempora~
rily occupied by Nazi-Germany felt that formidable dangers were
coming over them, to the point of complete annihilation. How­
ever, among these nations Poland was threatened most of all;
not only materially, in her national existence, the life of
her children, but also, and above all, in her culture. Nowhere
did the Nazis undertake to kill the soul of a people so syste­
matically. Their attempts were unsuccessful."
(Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen)
On 17th December 1977, Dr o Czeslaw Madajczyk, President of
the Polish Cooonittee for the History of the Second World War
rold Director of the Historical Institute of the Polish Aca­
demy of Sciences, met Dro Ytsh~{ Arad, Director of tbe Yad
Vashom Institute, cmd MI'o Svri Simer, Director of the Exter­
mination and HesistcUlcc J\lUSGum in J oru.salem o Their discussions
concerned problems of common interest in doing research work
on the Becond World Wn.r, [ind scientific contacts wi thin the
framcrJOl'k of the International Committee for the History of
the Second World War.
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From 21 st to 24-th February 1978, a colloquium was held at
Jaszowiec on "The war economy of the Axis Powers, 1938-191.1-5,
with special reference to their relations with the occupied
and dependent countries I I . This colloqniv..m was organized" by
the University of Katowice jointly v.ritih the Polish Commit­
tees for Economic History and fo1.' the History of the Second
World Ware This colloquium was e.ttendcd by 12 fOJ.'eign histo­
ri fillS from 8 different countries an<.1 15 l.Jolish hi,stori ans.
Addresses were made by Messrs. Cze,slavJ Madajczyk, W., Schu­
mann, H.E" Volkmann, J. Racllvcmda, J Gillingham 8IJ.cl Cz o
Luczol'>:" Discussion topics were: the place of the economy in
the occupation system, the economic policy of the Third Heich,
labour policy in the various regions, und the economic and
social fufects of the occupation. Only in 1979, the work of
the colloquium will be pUblished in ItEtudes HistoriaG Oecono­
micae" •
(Czeslaw Madajczyk)
<)
Dr. Israel Guttman, Professor in the University of Jerusalem
and Director of the Scientific Department of the Yad Vashem
Institute, visited Warsaw ond OS'wiecim (Auschvlitz) from 2st
to 8th April 1978 0 He met Dr. Czeslsvl Madajczyk and Dr.
Tadeusz Jedruszczak o The:ce was an excha..'1ge of scientific
information. Specifically, Dr. Guttman pointed to the sources,
of great interest to the Polish historians, that maybe found
at Yac;. Vashem o
(Tadeusz Jedruszczak)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. On Saturda;r, 22nd January 1977,
a meeting was held at the Institut fur Europaische Geschichte
in Mainz for the purpose of examiniIlg the 'possibility of'
establishing a Committee for the History of the Second VJorld
War. The meeting was atten.ded by: Professor von Aretin, Direc­
tor of the World History Department of the Institut fUr Euro­
paische ._Q.s::schichte in Mainz; Professor Broszat, Director of
the lnstitut fur L;ei tgeschichte in. rvIunich; Professor Erdmann
of the University of Kier;-President of the Scientific Commit­
tee. of the Institut fUr Zoitgeschichte in Munich; Professor
Hillgruber, of the University of Cologne; Dr. Messerschmidt,
of the Mi)i tEl:rgeschichtliclles For~c!11mgsamt of Freiburg/Breis­
gau; Professor ',Vernor, Director of the German Historical In­
stitute in Paris. The po..rticipants unanimously felt that it
would be useful to establish a Committee in the German Federal
Republic for co-ordinating the research work on the history
of the Second INorld War, wi tll the restriction that this vlOrk
would be concerned only with the years of actual conflict,
for the purpose of contri-buting to international scientific
co-operation. '1'ho above-nmnud six participants then proceeded
to form a founding committee. They expressed their intention
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to hold more meetings in :Ma:cdl') when a. larger attend811Ce
will prepo.re the establishing of a final cc~nmittee. Pro­
ferwor Dr. A. HillgX'uber~ of the Universit;y of Cologne,
was nominated chairman of the fou,,'1ding committee. His address
is as folloWG:
Institnt fii.r EUTop~i:L[jche Geschichte,
Abteilung Univeri.) 13.1 c;eschiehte,
Alte Universit[l"ts:'3trc.sse 19, Domus Universitatis,
D - 6500 MAINZ.
(K • D• Erdl1181ill)
HUNGAHY. Illhe HUlJ.garion Committee for the History of the
Second Vlorld War will ol't~Dnize a colloquium in BUdapest
from 2nd to J~-th November '1978, the theme being liThe war
propaganda and the c·1fmdnstine press in South Eastern Euro­
pe during the decond World V/;:::r1941 to 19/-1-5 11 • The. mornings
will be reserved fox' dealing with reports, the aftern.oons
then being available for discussions.
The programma is as follows:
ThurSt~ 2nd.November197~:
Opening of the colloquiu..n;
The propaganda made by the U.R.S.S. for the countries
of South Eastern Europe;
The propaganda. made by Great Britain for the countries
of South Eastern Europe against the Axis Powers;
- The German war propaganda in the occupied countries;
The German propag0nda for the satellite countries;
The propaganda of the Allied Powers and of the Axis
Powers in Hungaryo
Frida~
3rd Novenilier 19Z~:
- The war press in Hungary;
Propaganda ffild planned political training in the
Hungarian Army;
Press and radio in Rumania;
- Press llild radio i.n Bnlgaria o
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Saturda.y 'I-th November 1971i:
The clandestine press
The clandestine press
The clandestine press
- The clandestine press
- The clandestine press
- The clandestine press
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in
in
in
in
in
in
Austria;
Czechoslovakia;
Rumcmia;
Bulgaria;
Hungary;
Yugoslavia.
(Gyorgy Ranki)
At the time of the Bulletin's 50ing to press, the calendar
for forthcoming colloquia sponsored by the International Com­
mittee is as follows:
HUNGARY
BUdapest, 2nd to 4-Gh November 1978,
The war propclGCJp-~l.a and tb.G clan.destine press in
South Eastern Eu.rope during the Second Vlorld V/ar
?[g2E1- 19LJ-2 ;
CANADA
RUMANIA
FRANCE
TURKEY
Ottawa, October 1979,
Canada and the Second World War;
Bucareat l 28th August to 31.'0. September 198C (15th
C.l.S.H .. ),
The proQaGanda du~ing the Second World War - methods~
aim, results;
: Paris, October 1980,
The defeat ~f France, 1st September 1939 - July 1940;
Ankara, 1981 (the date is to be established later),
Jurkey's neighbouring countries during the Secon.9:
Wor10. V! a1~'
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To this list of confirmed projects, there will be added further
intended events to be detailed later. We should like to mention
the following:
SVIITZERLAND: The neutrality durilli{ the Second World Wg.
Our concern to provide full information prompts us to mention
other colloquia dea.ling with certain aspects of the Second
World War without being organized under the aegis of the In­
tiernational Committee:
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F.R.G.
Bonn, 26th to 29tih September 1978,
French-~~man
cql).oguiurn "}!'rance and GermanyJ,. March
192b i2.. b.eptembe?=, 193,2 11 ;
San Francisco, December 1978,
SCl..trces for stuc1yil]$ the ...n.E3,r.i2.d of the Second World
}Y~y:.-_··
(Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen)
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INTERNATIONllli
CO~~TITTEE
for the HISTORY of the SECOND WORLD WAR
Articles of Association
Arti.cle 1. An Interuntional Committee for the History of the
Secorid \70rlcL War is created. The CommiiJtee will promote histo­ rical research on this historical period in all its aspects
D
Article 2" The International Committee for the History of the
Seconc.nrorlcl VJar consists of representatives of research-orga­ nizations 01' groups of representative historians interested in
the study of the Second World War. Each country will be repre­ sented by one organization or group which will designate their
representative.
A:r:ti_cle 20 ~:he }c,xecutive Commit-tee of the International Com­
mitt,9o for the History of the Second World War consists of:
one l'resident, a number of Vice-Presidents, one Secretary
General, one Treasurer, to be appointed for a five-year period
by the plencll'y Assembly.
The Executive Committee eX8Illines the applications for membership
submi tted by organizations or groups, as above. Individual re­ searchers can be admitted to membership of the Committee. Their
apllication has to be approved 'oy the E:x::eclltive Committee. They
have consultative voice.
Article 4. The International Committee for the History of the
World War meets at least once every five years on the
occasion of the International Congress of Historical Sciences.
The Executive Committee is swmnoned by the President.
In, between these meetings, the International Committee for the
History of the Second World War delegates its powers to an
Executive Commission, consisting of members chosen from the
Executive Committee and of 8 to 15 additional members. The
latter will be elected by the plenary Assembly for a period
of two and a half years. The Assembly decides during the same
session on the renewal for the follovdng period of two and a
. half years
~ond
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Artic~. 'l'he running cos'lis of the Committee are covered by
the contributions of the members, to be fixed by the Executive
Conunittee, according to needs and to circumstances. The contri­
butions nre paid to the Treasurer in Swiss Francs during the
first quarter of the year.
Article 6 0 Differences are settled in the first instance by
the .l!.'xecutive Committee. Appeals from decisions can be brought
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before the Executive Commission, who decides in the second
instance.
Artic]~. The International Committee for the History of the
Second World War has its seat at the address of the President t
32 rue de Leningrad, 75008 Paris, France.
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MEMBERS of the
INTERNATIONAL COMlvIITTEE for the HISTORY of the SECOND WORLD WAR
H~!,8.ry r:.~EJcJ.\2:l-~: Mr. Ferruccio PARRI, Former Italian Prime
liib.nitJtcr.' , Permanunt Member of the Senate, Honorary President
of the National Institute for the History of the IJiberation
Movement in Italy, Piazza Duomo 14·, I - 20122 Milano, Italy.
President: Mr. Henri TvlICILEIJ, Research Director of the National
Scienti[[e Research Centre, Secretary General of the French
Committee for the History of the Second World War, 32 rue de
Leningrad, }' - 75008 P.aT'is, France.
Vice-Pr:eBident: Mr. Pavel JILINE, General, President of the
DepB.rtment of Military History of the NatL:mal Committee of
Historians of the USSR, Corresponding Member of the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR, Universitetskaja Street gom. 14,
Moscow B.330, USSR.
Vice-Presiden~: Mr. Jovan 1VillJANOVIC, President of the Yugo­
slavian Committiee for the History of the Second 'Norld War,
Faculty of Letters, 3 Zmaj Ognjena Vuka Street, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia.
Vice-President: Mr. Arthur FUNK, President of the American
Commi ttee for the History of tbe Second Wo:r:'ld War, University
of Florida, Department of History, 108 Peabody Hall, Gaines­
ville 32611, U.S.A.
Treasur~: Mr. Harry PAAPE, Vice-Director of the Netherlands
State Institute for War Documentation, Herengracht 474,
Amsterdam C, The Netherlands.
Secretary General: 1tt. Jean VAWNELKENHUYZEN, Director of the
Belgian Centre for Research and Studies on the History of the
Second World War, Place de Louvain 4 - bte 19, B - 1000 Brus­
sels, Belgium.
Delegates of the National Committees
ALBANY
AUSTRALIA
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Mr. Ndrec;i PLASARI, Chairman, Albanian
Committee for the History of the Antifascist
Struggle for National Liberation, c/o Histori­
cal Institute, Rruga N. Frasheri 7, Tirana.·
Mr o L.C.F~ TURNER, The University of New South
Wales, Ji'aculty of Military Studies, Royal
Milita~ry College
Duntroon A.C.T. 2600,.
Canberra 700427 ~personal application) •
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AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
BULGARIA
CAMEROUN
C.ANADA
CUBA
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
DEITh~
FINLAND
FRANCE
1~.
H. STEINER, Secretary General, Dokumenta­ tionsarchiv des 'osterreichischen Widerstandes,
Altes Rathaus, Wipp1ineerstrasse 8, A - 1010
Vienna 1.
W~. J. WILLEQUET, Professor, Free University
Brussels, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 82, 1050
Brussels.
IV'tr. Jean VANWELKENHlJYZEN, see above ..
Mr e Edmundo DE MACEDO SOARES E SILVl~, Instituto
Historico e Geografico brasileiro, Comite
Nacional de Historia da 2a Guerra IvIondial,
Av. Aug1.1~;ti Severo 8, 10 0 andar - Centro,
BR-20000 Hio de Jane~ro, R.J.
Mr. David ELAZAR, President, National Committ-;ee
for the History of the Second World Wa:r, Histo­ rical Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Arr. "Gu~o Milev", rue Tchapaev, block n. 9,
BG - Sofia.
Mr. KUM' A N'DUTvLBE, Universi t6 Lyon II, Chemin
de l'UniverGit~, F - 69500 Bron-Parilly, France
(personal application).
Mr. W.A.B. DOUGLAS, Chairman of the Canadian
Committee for the History of the Second World
War, Directorate of History, National Defence
P.eadquarters, Ottawa, Ontario K·1A-OK2.
Mrs. The ]JJ1a BO~NOT PUBILLONES, He ad of the
Department; of History, Direc. Pol., Central
Office of the A.F.R., Ministry of the Armed
Forces of the Revolution, Habana City.
Dr. Jan LIPTAK, President, Czechoslovakian
Committee for the History of the Antifascist
Resistance, Thunovska 22, CS - 118.28 Fraha 1.
Mr. BAGGE, Udgiverselskab for Danmarks Nyeste
Historie, Dronningens Tvaergade 30 1, DK ~
1302 Copenhagen.
Mr. HAESTRUP, Svendstrupvej 66, DK - 1302
Copenhagen.
Mr. Olli VEHVILjtINEN, Chairman of the Finnish
Committee for the History of the Second World
War, University of Tampere, Department of
History, Hemeenkatu 6A, SF - 33100 Tampere 10.
Mr o Henri MICHEL, see above.
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GDR
Mr. Wolfgang SGIftJMANN, German Academy of
GFR
Mr. M. BROSZAT, Director, Institute for Contem­
porary History, Leonrodstrasse 4613, 8 Munich 19.
Mr. F.W. DEAKIN, President, British Committee
for the History of the Second World Wa:r, Le
Castellet, F - 83330 Le Beausset, France.
Mr. Eleutherios PREVEL~~{IS, Director, Research
Centre of Modern and Contemporary History,
The Academy, Athens.
]f.r. Gyorgy R.ANIG, Vice-Presi.dent, Institute of
History Sciences of the Hungarian Academy,
1250 Budapest I, Uri Utca 51-53.
Mr. R.S. SHARMA, Chairman of the Indian Committee
for the History of the Second World War, Depart­ ment of History, Patna University, IND - Patna.
Mr. T.S. WILLIMi~, Faculty of Arts, University
College, Belfield, EIR - Dublin (personal
application) •
Mr. Avraham P. ALSBERG, Chairman of the Israeliall
Committee for1;he History of the Second World
War, Yad Vashem, Har Hazikaron, P.O.Box 84,
IL - Jerusalem.
A~. Carlo FRANCOVITCH, Secretary General,
Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento
di Liberazione in Italia, Piazza Duomo 14,
I - 20122 Milano.
Mr. Takashi SAITO, Japanese Committee for the
History of the Second World War, University
of Gakushuin, Faculty of Law, 1-5-1 Mejiro,
Toshimaku, J - Tokyo.
Mr. SPANG, Director, J~chives de l'ttat, Plateau
du Saint-Esprit, rue Louis XIV 36, L - Luxem­
bourg o
Mr. Stephen LEONG, University of Malaya, Depart­ ment of History, PTM - Kuala-Lumpur (personal
application) •
Mr. Lorenzo MEYER, El Colegio de Mexico,
Guanajua°tio 125, MEX - Mexico 7 D.F.
GREAT BRITAIN
GREECE
HUNGARY
INDIA
IRELAND
ISRAEL
ITALY
JAPAN
LUXEMBURG
MALAYA
MEXICO
Sciences, Historical L11sti tute, Clara Zetkin­ Strasse 26, 108 Berlin.
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'.rIIE NETHERLAl'rDS
NEW ZElliJAND
NOnWAY
POIJl'IND
Rir. Harry PAA.PE, see above.
Mr. I.Mol e WARDS~ Department of Inte:r:-nal
Affairs, Histo:L'ical Publications NZWellington (personal application~.
Mr. Magne SKODVIN, Historisk Instii tutt,
Univcrsitetet i Oslo, P~O.B. 1008, N - Oslo 3.
1-O"'" "C ~'1...,
TPDRldu/J
f. OK
V'J.ce-- P reSl. d en t 0 f -'-h
LJ~ e II18 t'
·1tute fOl' History, Academ.y of Sciences of
]~
J"1.I'.
l!_-"
l'oland, Hynek Starego Miasta 29-31'.1 PL 00-272 Warsaw o
RUIv1ANIA
Mro Gheorghu :6AHARIA, Director, Institute
for Historical, Socials and Political Studies,
Strada l\1inisterului 4, R - Bucarest.
SOUTH KOREA
Mr. Lee CHONG BiLK, Military Professor, Director
of Korean C6m.mittee for the History of the
Second World. VIar, National War College,
Susek. Sou Dai Moon Koo, Seoul, Rep12blic of
Korea 120-01.
t~. Ricardo DE LA CIERVA, Councillor of the
Minis·try of Culture, Av. del Generalisimo L~7,
Madrid.
1~. Stig EID~AN, Professor, Stockholms Universitet, ILstoriska Ir,stitutionen, Box
6404, S - 113.82 Stockholm. 6.
Mr. Louis Eo ROULET, Chairman of the Swiss
Historical Association, Director of the
Historical Institute, Faubourg de l'Hopital
41, CH - 2000 Neuchatel.
Mr. BAPTISTE, The University of the West
Indies, Trinidad (personal application).
Mr. Bechir BEN-AISSA, Director at the
Ministl~ of Defence, HistoriCal Service of
the Army, Ministry of Defence, 1 Boulevard
Baab-Henro.""la, Tunis.
Mr. Enver ZIYA KARAL, Professor of Contemporary
History, Universi ty of Ankara, Turk Tarish
Kurumu, TR - Ankarao
Mr. Arthur L. F~J{, see above.
Mr. Pavel JILINE, see above.
Mgr o Michele IVLACCAR110NE, Chairman of th.e
Pontifical Historical Sciences Com.mission,
00120 Vatican City.
Mr o Jovan MARJM~OVI~, See above.
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
TRINIDAD
TUNISIA
TURKEY
m,nTED S1'ATES
URSS
VATIC11,N CITY
YUGOSLAVIA
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