WORLD WAR TWO STUDIES ASSOCIATION
(formerly American Committee on the History of the Second World War)
Donald S. Detwiler, Chairman
Department of HistoI)'
Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
B9ard of Directors
Permanent
D;,ector~
Cl=les F. DelzeU
Vanderbilt University
ISBN 0-89126-060-9
Robert Wolfe, Secretary
WWTSA, Suite 612
1730 Rhode Island Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
NEWSLETTER.
Mark Parillo, Newsletter Editor
Department of HislGI)'
. Kansas State University
Ma.nhallan, Kansas 66506
Arthur L. Funk
Gainesville, Horida
Il Stuart Hughes
University of California,
San Diego
Forrest C. Pogue
Murray, Kentucky
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expiring 1994
hines L. Collins, Jr. •
Middleburg, Virginia
Robin Higham, Archivist
Department of History
Kansas State University
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John Lewis Gaddis
Ohio University
Robin Higham
Kansas State University
Warren F. Kimball
RUlgers University, Newark
F. Pelerson
Hoover lnslirution,
Stanford
Agnes
Ru...,eU F. Weigley
American Historical Associalion
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CONTENTS
World War Two Studies Association
General Information
The Newsletter
Annual Membership D ues
1994 Business Meeting Report
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News and Notes
AHA Elections
New York State Archives Release Records
Electronic Lists
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Temple University
Roberta Wohlste"er
Pan Heuristics,
Los Angeles
Jlllel Ziegler
University of California,
Los Angeles
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exp;,ing 1995
MMtin B1u.menson
WashingIon, D.C.
I]Ann Campbell
Au.slin Peay Stale University
Sta.nley L. Falk
Alexandria, Virginia
Emesl R. May
Harvard University
Dennis Showaller
Colorado College
Gerhard L. Weinberg
University of North Carolina
al Chapel Hill
EArl F. Ziemke
University of Georgia
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expiring 1996
Dean C. Allard
Naval Historical Cenler
Slephen E. Ambrose
University of New Orleans
Harold C. Deutsch
Sl. Paul, Minnesota
David KAhn
Great Neck, New York
Richard II. Kohn
University of North Carolina
at Chapel HiU
Carol M Petillo
Doslon College
Ronald II. Speclor
George Washington University
David F. Trask
Washington, D.C.
Robert Wolfe
National Archives
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Bulletin of the International Committee for
History of the Second World War
Activities of the International Committee
Meeting of the Bureau, Amsterdam, 1992
Meeting of the Bureau, London, 1993
Preparation of Montreal Conference (1995)
CISH and ICHSWW Conference Arrangements
ICHSWW Members
National Committees and Current Research
The WWTSA is affiliated witf,
the
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Information Bulletin of the Russian Association
of Second World War Historians
Research in Russia
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Bibliography: Russian Federation and CIS 38
World War II Russian Archival Materials
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Cornite internalional d'histoire
de la Deuxieme Guem: mondial.
Institut d'histoire du temps prOse!
(Centre national de 1a rechercl.
scientifique)
44 rue de I' Amiral Mouchez
75014 Paris, France
General Information
Established in 1967 "to promote historical research in the
period of World War II in all its aspects, the World War Two
Studies Association, whose original name was the American Commit­
tee on the History of the Second World War, is a private organi­
zation supported by the dues and donations of its members. It is
affiliated with the American Historical Association, with the
International Committee for the History of the Second World War,
and with corresponding national committees in other countries,
including the Arab Historians Association, Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom,
and the Vatican.
The Newsletter
The WWTSA issues a semiannual newsletter, which is assigned
International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the
Library of Congress. Back issues of the Newsletter are available
from Robin Higham, WWTSA Archivist, through Sunflower University
Press, 1531 Yuma (or Box 1009), Manhattan, KS 66502-4228.,
Please send information and suggestions for the Newsletter
·to:
Mark Parillo
Editor, WWTSA Newsletter
Department of History
Kansas State University
Eisenhower Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-1002
Tel.: (913) 532-6730
Fax: ( 9 1 3) 53 2 - 7 0 0 4
parillo@ksuvm.ksu.edu
parillo@matt.ksu.edu
Annual Membership Dues
Membership is open to all who are interested in the era of
the Second World War. Annual membership dues of $15.00 are pay­
able at the beginning of each calendar year. Students with U.S.
addresses may, if their circumstances require it, pay annual dues
of $5.00 for up to six years. There is no surcharge for members
abroad, but it is requested that dues be remitted directly to the
secretary of the WWTSA (not through an agency or subscription
service) in U.S. dollars. The Newsletter, which is mailed at bulk
rates within the United States, will be sent by surface mail to
foreign addresses unless special arrangements are made to cover
the cost of airmail postage.
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Report on the Annual
Business Meeting, 1994
by Donald S. Detwiler
The annual bus iness meet ing of
the WWTSA, scheduled for 5:45 p.m. on
9 Apri I 1994 in the Congressional
Room of the Hyatt Regency Bethesda,
Maryland, was convened by D. S. Det­
wiler of Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale, the association chair­
man, wi th some sixteen members in
at tendance, inc! uding, among current
directors, D'Ann Campbell, James L.
Collins, Jr., Harold C. Deutsch,
Stanley Falk, Dennis Showalter, and
Robert Wolfe. Noting that the asso­
ciation was for the first time meet­
ing concurrently with the Society for
Military History, Detwiler acknow­
ledged with appreciation the gracious
cooperation of the 1994 program
chairman of the SMH, Dr. Timothy K.
Nenninger, Chief of the Military Ref­
erence Branch of the National Arch­
ives, in making arrangements.
The association secretary, Robert
Wolfe of the National Archives, pre­
sented the treasury report for 1993,
prepared by his predecessor, D. Clay­
ton James of Virginia Military Insti­
tute, together with an update for the
first quarter of 1994 and a report on
the transfer of the secretariat from
Lex'ington, Virginia, to Suite 612,
1730 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., Wash­
ington, D.C. 20036, where the Battle
of Normandy Foundation, on a year-to­
year basis, without commitment or
obligation, donates office space and
part-t ime staff support, and where
the WWTSA has a dedicated telephone
line (202 728-0690) with an answering
machine. The report was accepted with
acknowledgment of the support of the
Battle of Normandy Foundation and the
service of Professor James and of his
associate, Ms. Anne Wells, who edited
the WWTSA newsletter for the past
three years.
The chairman announced that Mark
Parillo of the Department of History
of Kansas State University, with the
support of his department and univer­
sity, is assuming the editorship of
the WWTSA newsletter with the next
issue, which is to be prepared in
Manhattan, Kansas, but duplicated and
mailed from the secretariat. Mention­
ing that information for and corres­
pondence with the newsletter editor
should be sent directly to Professor
Parillo at the Department of History,
Kansas State University, Manhattan,
Kansas 66506-1002, the chairman
introduced him. Parillo said that he
plans to continue the newsletter in
much the same manner as it has been
issued in the past. The forthcoming
issue, which has been held until
later this spring in order to include
this account of the business meeting
(reaching him only ten days after it
took place), will include coverage on
recen t work be i ng done in Europe,
including Russia.
The chairman of the WWTSA program
for the forthcoming annual meeting,
Benis M. Frank, Chief Historian, U.S.
Marine Corps History and Museum Divi­
sion, reported on our proposal for a
joint session with the AHA on Amphi­
bious Warfare in World War II at the
meeting scheduled to be held 5-8
January 1995 (at the Chicago Hilton
and the Palmer House, with AHA con­
vention rates at both hotels of
$69.00 for a single room, $79.00 for
a double). Ben Frank will chair the
session, which will open with Briga­
dier General Edwin H. Simmons of the
Marine Corps Historical Center giving
an account of the 2d Marine Divi­
sion's head-on assault at Tarawa.
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Professor Phyllis A. Zimmerman of the
History Department of Ball State University will give a paper on another
kind of amphibious assault, the Makin
raid, shortly after the Guadalcanal
landings, conducted by Marines in
rubber boats launched from a submarine, under the command of Colonel
Evans F. Carlson. Turning to Army
operations in Europe, Martin Blumenson, who has al ready wr itt en ext ensively on Anzio, will present an upto-date evaluation of the controversies regarding that landing, with
respec t both to the personal it i es
involved and the way in which the
operation was conducted. Professor
Allan R. MIllett of the Mershon Center and the History Department of The
Ohio State University will comment on
the three papers and conclude the
session with an overview of amphibious operations in World War II, comparing the approaches of the Army and
the Marine Corps and the relat ive
success of their operations, particularly in the Pacific.
Ben Frank reported that on 25
March 1994, Robert L. Harris, Jr., of
Cornell University, the AHA Program
Committee Chair, wrote that "the Program Committee was not able to accept
your proposal. There was a number of
excellent proposals that made the
Program Committee's deliberations
very difficult as it sought to develop a representative program without
too much duplication of theme, place,
and time. We could accept only a
fract ion of the very fine proposals
submitted for our consideration."
Considering that the point of departure of the 1995 meeting was to be
World War II and that the proposed
WWTSA session had been suggested because it would assure the AHA a uniquely qualified panel on a vital
aspect of the war, Frank telephoned
the AHA Program Commi ttee Chair in
Ithaca, New York, to enquire why the
panel had been rejected. Professor
Harris said that there were many other better panels. Frank asked whether
there were another panel on amphibious warfare. Harr i s responded that
there was not. When Frank conveyed
the concern of the WWTSA that this
would be the third year in a row in
which our proposal for a joint session had been rejected by the AHA
Program Committee, Harris responded
that our having three panels rejected
in three years should tell us something about the quality of our
panels.
Detwiler thanked Frank for his
report and, above all, for having
organized the program, noting that it
could be worked into the spring 1995
conference in Washington on America
at War, 1943-1945, it were not given
in Chicago, but that the panel should
be given there. Referring'to the
quest ion of qual i ty rai sed by the
chai rman of the AHA Program Commi ttee, Detwiler observed that, in his
opinion, the rejection of WWTSA proposals by AHA Program Committees during the past three years reflects not
on the quality of the projected panels, but rather on the mandate, prior it i es, and procedures of the AHA
Program Committees and, indirectly,
on the policies and priorities of the
Council of the AHA to which the commi t tees report. He reminded WWTSA
members that the first of our session
proposals to be rejected had been
planned for the December 1992 meeting
in Washington; Dr. Timothy Mulligan
of the National Archives had organ-·
ized a panel on The Soviet-German
War: New Sources, Changing Interpretations.
Al though it was rej ected as a
joint session, it was held as an
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affiliated-society session in one of
the convention hotels during the
meeting; it was listed in the front
part of the program booklet as a
function of the WWTSA during the
meeting; and it was listed, together
with other affiliated-society ses­
sions, in the outline program grid in
the front part of the booklet; and
the names of its participants were
listed in the program booklet index,
together with the names of the parti­
cipants in the numbered sessions
bearing the imprimatur of the AHA
Program Committee. The standing-room­
only session on the German-Soviet war
included papers by Dr. Jlirgen Forster
of the German Military History Re­
search Office in Freiburg on German
records formerly held in the GDR, the
USSR, and Czechoslovakia, by Colonel
David Glantz of the U.S. Army General
Staff and Command College on the
availability of primary sources on
the Soviet Army in World War II, and
by Tim Mulligan on U.S.-Soviet rela­
tions during the war in the light of
a number of important but under-util­
ized sources in the Nat ional Arch­
ives.
The AHA Program Commi t tee's sec­
ond refusal of a joint session pro­
posal was issued for the subsequent
annual meeting, scheduled not at the
end of December 1993, but a week
later, early in January in San Fran­
cisco, when Ben Frank initially pro­
posed the session on amphibious war­
fare. The session might, of course,
have been conducted in January 1994,
like the one on the German-Soviet war
had been in December 1992, solely as
a WWTSA function. Other considera­
tions aside, however, the high cost
of travel to Cal ifornia to hold it
did not seem justified, in view of
the relatively small number of WWTSA
members likely to attend the Pacific-
coast meeting. Initially, we were
cons idering holding the panel, like
the present business meeting, togeth­
er with the spring 1994 meeting, in
Bethesda on the outskirts of Washing­
ton, of the Society for Military His­
tory. Before we made arrangements to
do so, however, it was announced that
the theme of the 1995 AHA meeting in
Chicago would be World War II. Under
the circumstances, it seemed appro­
priate to submit the amphibious war­
fare panel proposal to the AHA Pro­
gram Committee, providing the Ameri­
can Historical Association the kind
of program support incumbent upon us
as a specialized affiliated society
able to draw on the most complete
available findings and conclusions in
a highly technical area of study in
which a significant amount of impor­
tant work has been done over the
years.
Considerable discussion of the
matter led to a consensus, at the
business meeting late Saturday after­
noon, 9 April 1994, that the WWTSA
should definitely hold its next
annual meeting in Chicago in January
1995 with the AHA, with the under­
standing that the planned program
belongs on the AHA program as a joint
session. In view of the concern ack­
nowledged in the AHA Program Com­
mittee Chairman's letter to Ben Frank
of 25 March 1994, lito develop a
representative program without too
much duplication of theme, place, and
time," it seemed reasonable to work
on the assumption that serious recon­
s i dera t i on of the WWTSA proposal
should lead to its being accepted as
a joint program. Not only is there no
other program on amphibious warfare
in a meeting that was to focus on the
Second World War, but a more repre­
sentative body to sponsor such a
program at a meeting focussing on the
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war could hardly be found than the
WWTSA.
If our panel should not be accep­
ted as a joint session, it will non­
etheless be presented at the Chicago
meeting, as the 1992 session on the
Soviet-German war was, as a function
of an affiliated society. It would
not be surprising, however, if quite
a few members of the WWTSA were to
attend not only our panel and busi­
ness meeting, but also the formal
business meeting of the AHA as well,
in order to register their concern
that the AHA is evidently relinquish­
ing the role that it was chartered by
Congress to fulf ill, to serve as the
general, represent a t i ve associat ion
of the members of the historical pro­
fession in the United States.
Robert Wolfe, as director and
proceedings editor of the two confer­
ences on America at War, 1941-1945
(the tentative programs of which were
announced in the spring 1992 newslet­
ter on pp. 7-10), reported that most
of the May 1993 papers to be pub­
lished in the proceedings of the
first conference have been received
and that plans for the conference to
be scheduled in spring 1995 are well
advanced. Detwiler mentioned that
when the manuscript of the proceed­
ings is forwarded to SIU Press (which
ten years ago published the proceed­
ings of our conference on Americans
as Proconsuls, which was also edited
by Bob Wolfe), it will go into pro­
duction with the active encouragement
of the new director of the press,
John R. Stetter. Several months ago,
Rick Stetter moved to Southern Illi­
nois University Press from Texas A &
M Press, where he developed a strong
list in poliitcal and military his­
tory and public affairs--areas in
which he wou Id now welcome manus­
cripts for consideration by Southern
Illinois University Press. The WWTSA
Washington conferences on America at
War, 1941-1945 therefore fit parti­
cularly well into the agenda of the
press under its new director.
Regarding plans for the day-long
symposium of the International Com­
mittee on the History of the Second
World War to be held currently with
the International Congress of Histor­
ical Sciences in Montreal, 27 August­
3 September 1995, Detwi ler reported
that the day of the symposium had yet
to be set. The final program of the
symposium had not been determined, he
said, but it definitely was to in­
clude three papers by WWTSA members:
by Carl Boyd of Old Dominion Univer­
sity on the MAGIC perspective on
Japanese relations with Germany and
Russia during the last year of the
war, by Mark Parillo of Kansas State
Universi ty on American interdiction
of the Japanese transportation system
and Japanese improvisation during the
last year of the war, and by Robert
Wolfe of the National Archives on
fl aws in the Nuremburg precedent
inhibi t ing U. S. convict ion of perpe­
trators of war crimes and crimes
against humanity.
The meeting was adjourned at
about 6:45 p.m.
NeVIl's
ar:t.d
Notes
AHA Elections
The AHA Nominating Committee has
selected Gerhard L. Weinberg, a mem­
ber of the WWTSA Board of Directors,
as a nominee for President-Elect in
the Association's elections to be
held later in 1994. Professor Wein­
berg's scholarly credentials are
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impeccable and scarcely need mention
here' (for starters, hi s Fore ign Po li­
~of_Hitl~Germany has been the
standard in the field for fifteen
years and is likely to remain so for
some time to come, and his origin­
ality and productivity have not dim­
inished). But no doubt the committee
was as much impressed with Dr. Wein­
berg's professionalism and dedicated
service to the academic community.
Thus, few would quest ion the appro­
priateness of the committee's choice.
In light of recent events (see the
WWTSA 1994 business meeting report,
above), Professor Weinberg's presence
among the AHA hierarchy can only
serve to help the group refocus
itself in fulfilling its designated
responsibilities. It is hoped WWTSA
members will give due consideration
to Gerhard Weinberg's candidacy when
it comes time to cast their ballots
in the AHA elections.
New York State Archives
and Records Administration
Releases Records
[From a New York Sta te Archives and
Records Administration news
release, April 8, 1994]
As the 50th anniversary of D-Day
approaches, the State Archives and
Records Administration is releasing a
finding aid to its holdings on the
records of the New York State home
front during World War II. They Also
§~£y~4~_N~~_YQ£k~£§_Qn_lh~_HQm~
Front, A Guide to Records of the New
York State War Council is now avail­
ab Ie. Thi s important group of rec­
ords, which document the mobilization
of the thirteen million people of New
York State behind one single effort,
is fully accessible for the first
time.
Long before Pear I Harbor, New
York began mobilizing for the impend­
ing war. To deal with war emergencies
and to coordinate the many state and
federal programs established to pro­
tect citizens at home and win the war
overseas, the New York State Defense
Council was created, The Council was
initially comprised of a small group
of business, government, and civic
leaders. As the Defense Council, it
worked to stimulate military produc­
tion in the state and prepare New
Yorkers for the eventuality of war.
As the War Council (the name changed
when war was declared), its emphasis
shi fted to concerns of food short­
ages, hous i ng for defense industry
workers, and New York's civil de­
fense.
As early as 1942, the Council
began planning for the transition to
peacet ime, developi ng a program for
veterans that was unsurpassed in the
country. By war's end, the Council
was a statewide organization that
administered programs concerned with
child care, discrimination, civil
defense, salvage co llection, social
welfare, fann labor, arid education.
The records of the War Counci I are
valuable to anyone interested in
these topics as well as issues such
as volunteerism, community mobiliza­
tion, intergovernmental cooperation,
women's history, local history, and
social history of the home front.
The records consist of over 140
series, totalling over 300 cubic
feet. Some records have been, or are
scheduled to be, microfilmed. Micro­
film copies are available on inter­
library loan and for purchase. Micro­
filming is supported, in part, by a
grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. This finding aid pro­
vides general histories for War Coun­
cil agencies and summary descriptions
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of each series. Full series descrip­
tions are included in the microfilm
copies of the records and are avail­
able at the New York State Archives
and online through the Research Lib­
raries Information Network (RLIN) and
the New York State Library's automa­
ted catalog, which is now accessible
through Internet.
The records of the New York State
War Council are available to resear­
chers at the State Archives research
facility weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. Further information about
the content or use of these or other
. State Archives holdings is available
from:
The Research and Services Unit
New York State Archives and
Records Administration
Cultural Education Center
Room llD40
Albany, NY 12230
Tel.: (518) 474-8955
For further informat ion, contact
Judy Hohmann (518) 473-8037).
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Austro­
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Bu.ll~tin
of
th.~
Int~rn.ation.al
f o r th.~
H i s t o r y o f th.~
Second World War
Committ~~
Selected excerpts, reprinted
with the kind permission of
Henry Rousso.
Activities of the
International Committee
During the XVIIth Congress of the
International Committee of Historical
Sciences (CISH), convened August 1990
in Madrid, the Internat ional Commi t­
tee for the History of the Second
World War, as an affiliated body of
CISH, held its five-yearly General
Assembly. At this occasion, a new
Executive Committee was elected:
PRESIDENT:
Harry PAAPE (The Netherlands)
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Dusan BIBER (Yugoslavia)
Donald. S. DETWILER (United
States)
David DILKS (United Kingdom)
Czeslaw MADAJCZYK (Poland)
Oleg A. RZHESHEVSKY (USSR)
SECRETARY-GENERAL:
Henry ROUSSO (France)
TREASURER:
In planning (summer 1994):
H-Africa
African history
H-AmArt
art history
H-Demog
demographic history
H-NZ-OZ
New Zealand and Aus­
tralian history
H-War
military history
H-West
U.S. West, frontier
H-World
world history and
world survey texts
Harry PAAPE (The Netherlands)
MEMBERS:
Ole Kristian GRIMNES (Norway)
Jtirgen ROHWER (interim)
(Germany)
Vacant Seat for Hungary
In Madrid it was decided to move
the seat of the International Commit­
tee to Paris, to the office of the
Secretary-General. The Presidency and
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the Treasury were to stay in Amster­
dam at the State Institute for War
Documentation. Regrettably, as a
result of the serious health problems
of the President, the Executive Com­
mi t tee was not able to carryon its
affairs. In September 1992 Professor
Paape announced to the Executive Com­
mittee his wish to retire from his
post owing to poor health. The mem­
bers of the Executive Committee, sad­
dened by the departure of one of the
men who have contributed so much to
the formation of the International
Committee, felt they had to accept
these unfortunate circumstances. They
decided to restructure the Executive
Committee, in order to replace the
President and to adapt to the new
circumstances of the international
scene. This was the main objective of
the meeting of the Executive Commit­
tee that took place on September 9,
1992 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This meeting was followed by ano­
ther one, on July 3, 1993, in London.
During the second session, the out­
lines were fixed for the involvement
of the International Committee in the
next CISH conference, 1995 in Montre­
al, Canada. The Executive Committee
discussed the preparations for the
five-yearly meeting of the General
Assembly of the International Commit­
tee and for the scientific contribu­
t ion to the general themes already
fixed by CISH.
The minutes of both meetings are
summarized below and supplemented by
relevant information on activities of
the International Committee since
1990.
Meeting of the Bureau
9 September 1992, Amsterdam
Present: D. Biber, Sir W. Deakin, D.
S. Detwiler, D. Dilks, H. Paape,
P. Romijin, J. Rohwer, H. Rousso,
O. Rzheshevsky
Absent with Notice: C. Madajczyk, O.
Grimnes
At the opening of the session,
the Chair was taken by Sir William
Deakin, whose longstanding efforts
for the Internat ional Commi ttee are
generally appreciated. Although not a
formal member of the Executive Com­
mittee, Sir William said he was de­
lighted to preside over the session,
in compliance with the explicit wish
of the President, Professor Paape.
Professor Paape, who had been the
International Committee's President
and Treasurer since the 1990 Madrid
Conference, had sent a letter of res­
ignation, dated 1 September 1992, to
all members of the Executive Commit­
tee. In this letter, the President
s tat ed his in ten t ion tor esign his
positions of President and Treasurer,
owing to problems of ill health.
It was unanimously decided by
members of the Executive Committee to
honor Professor Paape's longstanding
achievements in the International
Committee by appointing him Honorary
President. Sir Wi lliam Deakin re­
called the excellent state of the
Committee's financial affairs. This
situation will prove to be an asset
for the future, thanks to Professor
Paape's careful administration~
After a brief discussion on the
present situation, the members of the
Executive Committee appoved of a sug­
gestion, put forward by Professor
Franl;ois Bedarida, Secretary-General
of CISIl, as follows: To enable the
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best possible circumstances, Professor David Di lks, Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Hull, United Kingdom and Vice-President of the International Committee, was appointed
President. His term of office will be
until the 1995 Montreal Conference.
Concerning the vacant Treasury,
Professor Paape suggested that he
should be replaced by Peter Romijn,
researcher and Deputy Director of the
Netherlands State Institute for War
Documentation. Thus it will be possible to continue the management of
financial affairs in Amsterdam, where
the Committee's Bank account is established. This proposal was accepted
by the Execu t i ve Comm itt ee. Henceforth, affairs of the Executive Committee will be conducted in liaison
between Hull (the Presidency), Paris
(the General-Secretary) and Amsterdam
(the Treasury).
From this decision on, the meeting was presided over by the new
Pres ident, Professor Di lks. Discussion now turned to the subject of
membership of the Executive Committee.
Professor Rohwer reported on the
dealings of the German Committee for
the Second World War as connected to
German reunification. Professor Gerhard Hirschfield, Director of the
Bibliothek fUr Zeitgeschichte in
Stuttgart was appointed President of
a merged German Committee. Professor
Hi rschfi el d from now on wi 11 represent Germany in the Executive Committee.
A Hungarian representative in the
International Committee had not been
nominated up to now. Professor Rohwer
proposed to contact the President of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Professor Kosary.
Professor Detwiler, Chairman of
the Amer i can Assoc ia t ion, suggested
it would be of paramount interest in
preparing the 1995 Montreal conference to invite a Canadian representative to take part in the Executive
Committee's operation. Consequently,
it was decided to contact Professor
Norman Hi llmer of at tawa, Pres ident
of the Canadian Committee for the
History of the Second World War.
[As a result of this decision,
Professors Hirschfield, Kosary and
Hillmer were appointed members of the
Executive Commi t tee. Also appointed
member of the Executive Committee was
a former Secretary-General of the
Interna tiona 1 Commi t tee, Professor
Georgio Rochat, from L'Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di
Liberazione in Italia in Milan.]
Several members of the Executive
Committee observed that it would be
very desirable to ask a representative of one of the National Committees in the Far East, e.g. from China
or Japan, to be a member of the Executive Committee. This part of the
world has, until now, not been repr~­
sented in the Executive Committee,
although the war in the East Asia is
a very important theme in the history
of the Second World War. It was
decided that this problem should be
tackled with the highest priority.
Professor Biber, Vi ce-Pres ident
of the International Committee, drew
the attention of the Executive Committee to his delicate position, being chosen as a representative of the
former Yugoslavia. Presently, he is
representing Slovenia. It was unanimously decided by the Executive Committee that Professor Biber will stay
on as vi ce-Pres ident, represent ing
Slovenia. Considering the extremely
difficult situation Professor Biber
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is facing, the Executive Committee
will be of every possible assistance
in fulfilling his task.
From October 1992 on, the Executive Committee was composed thus:
Honorary President:
Harry PAAPE (The Netherlands)
President:
David DILKS (United Kingdom)
Vice-Presidents:
Dusan BIBER (Slovenia)
Donald S. DETWILER (United
States)
Czeslaw MADAJCZYK (Poland)
Oleg A. RZHESHEVSKY (Russia)
Secretary-General:
Henry ROUSSO (France)
Treasurer:
Peter ROMIJN (The Netherlands)
Members:
Gerhard HIRSCHFIELD (Germany)
Ole Kristian GRIMNES (Norway)
Norman HILLMER (Canada)
Domokos KOSARY (Hungary)
Giorgio ROCHAT (Italy)
In the course of this meeting,
the financial situation of the International Committee was discussed. On
31 August, 1992, the situation seemed
perfectly sound, with the Committee's
bank account amounting to about
$38,000. It was decided to declare a
moratorium for membership fees that
had not been paid for the years before 1992. This was done especially
with regard to the countries which
are in economic difficulties. A call
for fees concerning 1992 will go out
after the meeting. The Executive Committee finally decided to restrict
severely its expenditures to the very
necessary costs of the execution of
its most important tasks.
During the meeting, it was also
decided that the Bulletin will reappear on an annual basis. The first
one will be produced in Paris under
the responsibility of the SecretaryGeneral with the help of the Presidency and the Treasury.
Finally, the Executive Committee
discussed the 1995 conference at
Montreal, which from now on will be
at the top of the agenda for the
activities of the International Committee. General lines were fixed the
concerning organizational and scholarly set-up of the conference.
Meeting of the Bureau
3 July 1993, London
Present: D. Biber, D. Detwiler, D.
Dilks, C. Madajczyk, O. Rzheshevsky, H. Rousso, P. Romijn, N.
Hillmer, G. Hirschfield, D. Kosary, G. Rochat
Absent with notice: H. Paape, O.
Grimnes
The Treasurer, Peter Romijn,
presented a summary of the financial
affairs of the International Committee. On 30 June 1993, the bank balance was Df 1. 63,047, or about US
$30,000. The Treasurer was authorized
to remind members of the obligation
to pay their annual contributions. He
was also mandated to have a chartered
accountant formally examine the International Committee's receipts and
expenditures between 1990 and 1993.
Consequently, a chartered accountant
in The Hague reported on the financial situation of the International
Committee for the History of the
Second World War between 1 January
1990 and 30 June 1993.
Finally, it was dec ided that the
Committee will take into account the
difficulties that several national
committees have in paying their contributions. If most of the International Committee's budget is to be
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speni to cover the costs of administration, publication of the Bulletin,
and preparation of the Montreal conference, it might still be possible
to reserve a small part of the budget
to solve or ease such difficulties.
The Secretary-General, Henry
Rousso, reported on recent efforts to
restructure the Executive Committee.
Letters stating the wish to do so had
been sent to about fifty national
committees, institutes and scholars
around the wor ld, and to members of
the International Committee as well
as to new contacts, established since
1991. Twenty-three countries had
replied positively. Having done so,
such countries are considered to be
full members of the International
Committee, even though they may not
have yet paid their membership fees
for 1993. Replies have been received
from: Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Czech Republic, Finland,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Rumania,the Union of
Arab Historians (Baghdad), the United
Kingdom, the United States, and the
Vatican.
Henry Rousso observed that, except for Japan, the main belligerents
of Wor ld War I I are represented in
the International Committee. The same
goes for almost all the states of
central and western Europe. From the
Pacific area three countries are
represented, plus one from the Middle
East. On the other hand, it might be
expected that about a dozen new members will apply for membership. Word
has corne that the People's Republic
of China desires to join the International Commi ttee without further delay. Consequently, the odds are very
high that, from the 1995 conference
on, the Internat ional Commi ttee wi 11
have re-established its influence and
will be able to count on the active
participation of about 30 members.
Next on the agenda was the preparation of the Montreal Conference.
The President, David Dilks, proposed
to have no Executive Committee meeting before Montreal, unless unforeseen circumstances arose. In his
opinion, another midterm meeting of
the Executive Committee would be too
expensive. Besides, in Montreal two
formal sessions of the Executive Committee will have to take place during
the half-day that is reserved for the
meeting of the General Assembly of
the International Committee. The
first one must take place before the
General Assembly that wi 11 elect a
new Executive Committee; the second
one will be a meeting of the newly
elected Executive Committee. Professor Dilks remarked that, in accordance with the International Committee's rules, only those members that
have paid their membership fees from
1993 onward will be allowed to deliberate and to vote in the General
Assembly.
Concerning the scholarly program
of the Conference, the Executive Commi ttee accepted the procedure as
proposed by the Secretary-General in
his "Notes of Orientation Concerning
the Montreal Conference." The subject
will be: The Year 1945: The Consequences and the Aftermath of the War.
Proposals for papers, to a maximum of
20, were to be sent to the SecretaryGeneral before November 1, 1993.
[The real deadline was actually
December 1, 1993}.
A working committee, consisting
of D. Dilks, D. Detwiler, P. Romijn,
and H. Rousso were to judge those
proposals and fix the program of the
conference. During the meeting,
Professor Detwiler on behalf of the
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American World War Two Studies Asso­
ciation (formerly the American Com­
mittee on the History of the Second
World War) announced two proposals
for papers. If it proved impossible
to find participants from the Peo­
ple's Republic of China, Professor
Detwiler was prepared to seek Chinese
scholars that were working in the
United States.
Discussions subsequently dwelt
upon financial aspects of the con­
ference and on the International Com­
mittee's limited possibilities in
this field. It was decided to pay the
CISH registration fees (fixed amount
of Can $200) for all Executive Com­
mittee members, as well as for all
scholars whose papers are accepted
for the Internat ional Commi ttee' s
conference. Bes ides, it may be de­
cided to give extra support in cer­
tain cases judged to be exceptional.
Thus, the total sum to be paid by the
International Committee will be about
the equivalent of 30 registration
fees, or about US $5,000.
At the end of the meeting, before
the President was obliged to leave,
the Committee discussed the possi­
bility of enlarging the theme of the
Montreal conference. Some members
proposed to add topics that are con­
nected to the history of World War
Two, especially the Cold War and
decolonization. A large majority of
members, however, believed the pre­
sent outlines for the theme of the
conference provided to participants
all liberty necessary to touch in
their papers upon the named subjects.
Therefore, it was decided to maintain
the framework as it was defined in
the prev ious meet ing. The general
subject is related to the events
(military, political, economical) of
1944-45, to the direct effects of the
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war since 1945, and to their progres­
sive assimilation.
Preparation of the Montreal
Conference (1995)
General Theme and Working
Hypothesis
The 50th anniversary of the end
of World War II offers a major oppor­
tuni ty to define the general theme
for the International Committee's
five-yearly conference. As usual, the
Committee considered various aspects
of this general theme. It was the
Committee's objective to reflect on
historiographical trends and develop­
ments on different national stages,
and on an international level, espe­
cially related to new fields of re­
search, important instances of schol­
arly progress and new possibilites as
a result of newly opened archives.
This definition of the general theme
would allow a wide range of subjects:
military, socio-economic, political
and cultural history, and all other
specialisations that are of interest
to researchers in the field of World
War II studies.
All in all, it seems to be impos­
sible to continue the study of the
history of the Second World War with­
out taking into account its topicali­
ty. World War II still is profoundly
influencing today's political life,
s till be i ng a pot en t i a lob j ec t of
controversy in society. This goes for
the debate about the facts on certain
matt ers and, above all, for di scus­
sions about interpretations of things
things that have occurred. This war
still has a momentous impact on most
societies that have been involved in
the conflict, whatever their position
has been. Recent event sin Eastern
Europe, for instance the twnbl ing of
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the Berlin Wall, have had vital,
sometimes tragic consequences for
Eastern European countries. Besides,
those milestones have evoked once
more the eternal question whether the
political and strategic stakes of
this war from now on ought to be con­
sidered part of the past or, on the
other hand, still are influencing the
genesis of people's and nations.
As the distance in time was grow­
ing, in recent years many countries
have known phenomena that belong to
the process of dealing with the past,
as it is ca 11 ed in German Vergangen­
hei'tsbewiiltigung. Those incidents
have brought back into public contro­
versy certain facts that had been
forgotten or hidden. As a resul t,
aspects of the war that up until
recently had been underestimated were
completely uncovered. In most cases,
such events are not products of
scholarly debate but belong to public
controversy on the war i tsel f, on
Nazism, on genocide, on German, Ital­
ian, or Japanese occupations. New
questions are raised concerning the
moral, political and social conse­
quences of those phenomena. Germany,
France, the Netherlands, Belgium,
even in some respects the Uni ted
States and Japan, in recent years
have known abrupt returns to the
past: scandals, delayed legal procee­
dings as regards crimes against hu­
mani ty, controversy on remembrance,
historiographical controversy, ascen­
ding "revisionism" and "negationism"
and the like. The International Com­
mittee is not in a position to leave
such phenomena out of consideration,
even though its main task is a schol­
arly one.
Taking into account all such con­
siderations, the general subject for
the conference is defined as:
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The year 1945: t he consequences
and the Aftermath of the Second World
War from 1945 up to now
The subj ect ought to be under­
stood in its broadest sense. Thus, it
includes a wide range of themes for
research:
• Military, strategic and interna­
t ional affairs, concerning the 1944­
1945 period, especially in the light
of newly opened archives;
• problems of political transi­
tions (especially in the former Axis­
states and the countries that were
occupied by them), the emergence of
new political formation and the dev­
elopments of new ways in political
culture;
• problems concerning the liqui­
dation of remnants of national
socialism, fascism, militarism and
collaboration: purges and denazifica­
tion, political justice, reintegra­
tion of adherents of the old order
and collaborators into postwar socie­
ties;
• the study of open or latent civ­
il wars originating from the fin­
ishing of the Second World War;
• the social, economic, cultural
and psychological heritage of the
War;
the collective memory of the
conflict up to now and the collective
dealing wi th this historical experi­
ence that, without any doubt, has had
a deep influence on national history
of all countries involved.
It is not intended that all pap­
ers should adhere str i ct ly to the
aforement i oned themes . Rather, the
list of topics is meant to enable
participants to the Montreal Confer­
ence to reflect on possible elabora­
tions of the general theme.
The Executive Committee decided
to divide the conference, which will
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ence of CISH, Professor Jean-Claude
Robert [address: President of the
Organizing Committee of the 18th Con­
ference of CISH, Department of His­
tory, University of Quebec at Montre­
al, PO BOX 8888, Succursa1e A, MON­
TREAL PQ H3C 3P8, Canada; te 1.: ( 514 )
9878433; fax: (514) 98778 13] or
by the Secretary-General of the CISH
Professor Fran~ois Bedarida [address:
Secretary-General of CISH, Inst i tut
d'Histoire du Temps Present (CNRS),
44 Rue de l' Amiral Mouchez 75014
PARIS, France; tel.: (33) (1) 45 80
90 46; fax nr, (33) (1) 45 65 43 50] .
• Afternoon session: The memory,
Informat ion about air-travel,
heritage and the consequences of the lodging and the 1ike will be furn­
ished by CISH, from which in due time
Second World War since 1945.
Subject of this session is the forms of registration will be sent to
study, from a comparative perspec­
all aff i 1iated organisat ions, includ­
tive, of various ways in which the ing our International Committee. All
countries involved in the war have costs involved, however, must be cov­
been coping with its effects (e.g.
ered by participants themselves or by
purges and reintegration of col­
the affiliated organizations to which
laborators, definition of victims and they belong,
compensation of those, delayed legal
As explained above, the confer­
procedures against criminals of war). ence of the International Committee
Consequently, this session relates to for the Hi story of the Second World
long-term developments and is part of War will take one full day. It will
the domain of social and cultural be divided into a morning and after­
history,
noon session, both of them devoted to
di fferent themes wi thin the same
general subj ect. Each sess ion wi 11
Arrangements for the
take about three hours and will be
Conference of CISH
introduced by a synthesis on the rel­
and of the
evant theme, presenting the essential
International Committee
conclusions of the body of papers of
for the History
the relevant session. The synthesis
of the Second World War
will not exceed 40 minutes in time.
After this presentation, all authors
The Congress of the International of papers will have the opportunity
Co mm itt e e for His tor i cal Sci en c e s to speak briefly; papers will not be
(CISH) will take place from Sunday 27 read in full to the conference. Fin­
August to Sunday 3 September 1995 in ally, 90 minutes will be available
the Montreal Palais des Congres. All for plenary debate.
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further information on CISH will be
The total number of papers wi 11
given by the President of the organ­
not exceed 20; these will be arranged
izing commi ttee of the 18th Confer­
from a thematic point of view. If a
last one day, into two parts, of
which the general themes are as fol­
lows:
• Morning session: The year 1945,
the end of the war, transition from
war to peace, and direct consequences
of the war.
This session will be devoted to
contributions on events and develop­
ments in the poli tical and military
sphere, on the history of interna­
tional relations, generally to short­
term developments from 1944-1945
until the immediate post-war years.
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situation occurs in which more than
one paper is proposed by a national
committee, it is not intended to
adhere a priori to the principle of
"one commi t t ee, one paper." Every
proposal will be scrupulously judged
by the Executive Committee on its
contents and its scholarly merits.
All papers should be written in Eng­
lish, or in French. A summary of one
page in English is required. Costs of
translat ions of papers are to be
covered by the authors, except for
special cases, to be judged by the
Executive Committee. Texts will not
exceed a length of 30 pages (4,000
words, if possible on diskette, IBM
or MAC-systems). Authors of papers
may be members of national committees
or scholars proposed by these com­
mi ttees. They may include promising
young scholars, who will have an
opportunity to present their research
to an international audience.
A mandatory deadline to submit
papers will be 15 November 1994. This
is because the International Commit­
tee for the History of the Second
World War has decided to publish a
volume of papers before the confer­
ence. This will be sent before August
1995 to all participants. Proposals
for papers were to be submi t ted by
December 1, 1993 at the very latest,
after which date proposals would be
accepted by the General Secretary
only in exceptional circumstances.
The ICHSWW Members
For two years, the bureau exerted
itself to reconstitute the network of
the International Committee. You will
find below the list of institutions
that are members of the ICHSWW, with
the addresses and names of the schol­
ars who are the contacts of the In-
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t ion that might improve or complete
this list is of course welcome.
ARAB HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION
Arab Historians Association
PO Box 4085
Baghdad
Irak
Contact: Prof. Mustapha AL-NAJJAR
AUSTRALIA
University College
The University of New South
Wales
Australian Defence Force Academy
Campbell, ACT, 2600
Tel.: (61) 62 68 88 67
Fax: (61) 62 68 88 79
Contact: Dr. Jeffrey GREY
AUSTRIA
Dokumentationarchiv des Oster­
reichischen Widerstandes
Altes Rathaus, Wiplingerstrasse 8
1010 Wien 1
Tel.: (43) (0222) 534 36 779
Fax: ( 43) (022 2) 534 36 9977 1
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang NEUGEBAUER,
General Secretary
BELGIUM
Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes
Historiques de la Seconde
Guerre Mondiale,
Residence Palace, Boite 2
155, Rue de la Loi
1040 Bruxelles
Tel.: (32) 2 287 48 11
Contact: Dr. Jose GOTOVITCH,
Director
CANADA
Comite Canadien d'Histoire de la
Seconde Guerre Mondiale/Cana­
dian Committee for the History
of the Second World War
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Department of History
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
Tel.: 1 (613) 788 28 44
Fax: 1 (613) 788 28 19
Contact and member of the ICHSWW
Bureau: Pro Norman HILLMER,
President
CZECH REPUBLI C
Czech Committee for the History of
the Second World War
Resistance Memorial
PRAGA 3
Tel.: (42) 2 6279353
Contact: Pro Frantisek JANACEK,
President
FINLAND
Finnish Committee for the History
of the Second World War
Tampere University, Institute of
History
Hammareninkatu 8-10
PO Box 607 SF-33101 TAMPERE
Tel.: (358) 31 15 65 39
Fax: (358) 31 13 44 73
Contact: Pro Olli VEHVILAINEN,
President
FRANCE
Institut d'Histoire du Temps
Present
(Centre National de la Recerche
Scientifique)
44 Rue de l'Amiral Mouchez
75014 PARIS
Tel: (33) 1 45 80 90 46
Fax: (3 3) 1 45 65 43 50
Contact and General Secretary:
Henry ROUSSO, charge de recer­
che
GERMANY
Bibliothek fur Zeitgeschichte
Urbanstrasse 19
Postfach 105441 D 7000-STUTT
GART 10
Tel.: (49) 711 23 46 41
Fax: (49) 711 26 21 936
Contact and member of ICHSWW
Bureau:Pr. Gerhard HIRSCH­
FIELD, Director
HUNGARY
National Committee for the History
of the Second World War
Institute of History
H-1250 BUDAPEST Pf-9
Tel.: (36) 1 155 61 67
Fax: (36) 1 175 61 67
Contact: Dr. Peter SIPOS, Presi­ dent
Member of the ICHSWVI Bureau: Pro
Domokos KOSARY
President of the Hungarian Aca­
demy of Sciences
Roosevelt Ter a
H-1051 BUDAPEST
Tel.: (36) 1 132 71 76
Fax: (36) 1 132 89 43
ITALY
Instituto Nationale per la Storia
del Movimento di Liberazione in
!tal ia
Piazza Duomo 14
20122 MILANO
Tel.: (39) 286463233
Contact: Guido QUAZZA, President
International Branch of INSMLI:
Universita di Torino
Via Sant'Ottavio, 20 10124 TORINO
Tel.: (39) 11 83 27 62 - 11 87 34
00
Fax: (39) 11 87 49 11
Contacts: Mrs. Francesca FERRATINI
TOSI and Pro Giorgio Rochat,
member of the ICHSw\V Bureau
LUXEMBOURG
Section Historique de l'Institut
Grand-ducal de Luxembourg
18, Rue Schrobilgen
L-256 LUXEMBOURG
Contact: Pro Paul DOSTERT
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NETHERLANDS
Rijkinstituut voor Oorlogs­
documentatie
Herengracht 474
1017 CA AMSTERDAM
Tel.: (31) 20 523 38 00
Fax: (31) 20 627 82 08
Contact and Treasurer of the
ICHSWW: Dr. Peter ROMIJN
NEW ZEALAND
Department of Internal Affairs,
Historical Branch
123, Molesworth Street
PO Box 805 WELLINGTON
Tel.: (64) 44712599
Fax: (64) 4 499 19 43
Contact: Pro Ian McGIBBON
Honorary President of the ICHSWW:
Pro Harry PAAPE
NORWAY
Historisk Institutt
Avdeling for Historie
Postboks 1008 BLINDERN 0315 OSLO 3
Tel.: (47) 2855943
Fax: (47) 2 85 57 84 828
Contact and member of ICHSWW
Bureau: Pro Ole Kristian
GRIMNES
POLAND
Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut
Historii
Kamienica KSN Mazowieckich
Rinek Starego miasta 29/31
00272 WARSAW
Tel.: (48) 22 31 02 61
Fax: (48) 22 31 36 42
Contact and Vice-President of the
ICHSWW: Pro Czeslaw MADAJCZYK
ROMANIA
Comite Roumain d'Histoire de la
Seconde Guerre Mondiale
5-7 Drumul Taberei Str.
BUCAREST 77302
19
Tel.: (40) 0 31 45 86
Fax: (40) 0 31 45 86
Contact: Pro Viorica MOISIUC,
President
RUSSIA
Institut d'Histoire Mondiale/
Institute of Universal History
Leninsky Prospect 32a
MOSCOW 117 334
Tel.: (7) 095 938 68 26 - (095)
938 17 66
Fax: (7) 095 938 22 88
Contact and Vice-President of the
ICHSWW: Pro o. RZHESHEVSKY,
Chief of Department
SINGAPORE (Republic of)
Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies
Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Pasir Panjang
SINGAPORE 0511
Tel.: (65) 778 09 55
Fax: (65) 778 17 35
Contact: Dr. Sharon SIDDIQUE,
Director
SLOVENIA (Republic of)
Contact and Vice-President of the
ICHSWW: Pro Dusan BIBER
Celovska 203, Apt. 78
61000 LJUBLANA
UNITED KINGDOM
British National Comittee for the
History of the Second World War
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road LONDON SEI 6HZ
Tel.: (44) 1 71 416 52 06 - (71)
416 52 07
Fax: (44) 1 71 839 88 97
Contact: Pro Jonathan J. CHADWICK,
General Secretary
President of the ICHSWW: Pro David
DILKS
The Vice-Chancellor, The Univer­ sity
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HULL, HU 67RX
Tel.: (44) 482465131
Fax: (44) 482 46 65 57
UNITED STATES
World War Two Studies Association
(formerly American Committee on
the history of the Second World
War)
Department of History, Southern
Illinois University at Carbon­
dale
CARBONDALE (IL) 62901
Tel.: (1) 618 453 43 91
Fax: (1) 618 453 32 53
Contact and Vice-President of
ICHSWW: Pro Donald S. DETWILER,
Chairman
VATICAN
Comite Pontifical des Sciences
Historiques
Pontificia Universita Gregoriana
Roma
Piazza della Pilotta 4
ROMA 00187
Contact: Mgr. Pierre BLET
ment of History at the University
College (Australian Defence Force
Academy) and acts as a clearing house
and point of reference for historians
interested in the Second World War in
Austral ia, and for overseas histori­
ans wanting further information about
the events of the war in this part of
the world or as they affected Austra­
l ia.
Publication within Australia on
the Second World War in all its
aspects continues to be healthy, and
listed here are a few of the signifi­
cant titles that have appeared in the
last few years.
David Horner, tllKh-Command - Austra­
lia's Struggle for an Independent
WaI-~trat~1939-1945 (Sydney:
Allen and Unwin, 1992, new edi­
tion).
David Wilson, The Decisive Factor: 75
i!l1.~L 76_ Squi!gron.§_=--- Port Moresby
i!ng_MilnL BaY_l.2..±l (Me 1bourne:
Banner Books, 1991).
Margaret Bevege, Behind Barbed'Wire:
Information about
National Committees
and Current Research
Australia
The current activities of the Austra­
lian National Committee by Jef­
frey Grey
As elsewhere, the fiftieth anni­
versar i es of maj or events of the
Second World War have been marked in
Australia by public observances and
exhibitions, the focus in Australia
being particularly now on the events
of the war against Japan.
The Australian National Committee
continues to be run from the Depart­
;
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Inl~rnm~nl_in_AY.§lri!lia_during
World War II (St. Lucia: Univer­
sity of Queensland Press, 1993).
Kate Darian-Smith, On the Home Front:
M~QQyrnLin_Ri!rlim~_1.2.1.2.-1945
(Melbourne: Oxford University
Press, 1990).
Gavan McCormack and Hank Nelson
(eds. ), Ihe_ Burmfl...=Thai land Rai 1­
~Me!!!..QLLan~HistorY (Sydney:
Allen and Unwin, 1993).
Jeffrey Grey (ed.), "The Pacific War
in 1942," a special issue of War
& Society, 11/1 (May 1993). [This
journal is published by the Aus­
tralian National Committee.]
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A guide to selected works in the
field published before 1990 may be
found in John Robertson and Jeffrey
Grey, "Australian and New Zealand
wri t ing on the Second World War," in
Jtirgen Rohwer (ed.), Neue Forschungen
zum Zwei ten WeI tkrieg: Li teraturber­
i~hi~_gn4_~iQ1iQgK~phien (Koblenz:
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1990).
Austria
Dokumenta tionsarchiv des Osterrei ch­
ischen Widerstandes (DOW) - Aus­
trian Resistance Documentary
Archive.
General
The Archives for the Documenta­
tion of Austrian Resistance (DOW) was
founded in 1963 by former partici­
pants in the Austrian Resistance and
by victims of the Nazi regime in Aus­
tria. Dr. Herbert Steiner, one of the
founding members, was Secretary-Gen­
eral and Director of Research during
the first twenty years of existence
of the Archives. In 1983, the Austri­
an Ministry of Science and the town
of Vienna supported the founding of
the Archives as a public body. Cur­
rently, the Director of Research is
Dr. Wolfgang Neugebauer, who took
over from Dr. Steiner in 1983. Dr.
Neugebauer is acting as the Austrian
representative in the International
Committee for the History of the
Second World War.
Research
DOW has collected a wide variety
of documents, books and pictures on
the Austrian experience of resis­
tance, oppression and exile, 1934­
1945. Topics of research have been
related to major historical themes,
such as Resistance and the repres­
sion, Austrians in exile, oral his­
tory, right-wing radicalism in the
post-war period. A major project of
research is the compilation of a
table of names of Austrian victims of
the Holocaust. In 1992, the project
on oral history was concluded by the
publication of two volumes on the
fate of the Austrian Jews. Other pro­
jects were continued by volumes on
Austrians in British, Latin American
and Sov iet exi Ie. Bes ides, the sev­
enth Annual Book of the Archives was
published, carrying as a leading
topic the discrimination of minori­
ties during and after the Nazi peri­
od. The Archives cooperated in the
issue of a brochure on "revisionist"
history in connection with Nazi
crimes against humanity. In prepara­
tion are a handbook on right-wing
extremism and a source book on the
National Socialist "People's Court"
in Vienna.
Documentation
In 1992, the Archives obtained
new collections of documentation from
private persons and institutions. In
addi t ion, the Library acquired reI e­
vant works and now contains 26,000
titles, which include an interesting
collect ion of 2,500 books on the
theme of Jewish contemporary history.
The collection of photographs con­
tains 28,000 pictures. In connection
with the ongoing oral history pro­
ject, 2,600 tapes were made, consist­
ing of interviews with 800 persons.
The collection of newspaper clippings
is being systematically enlarged from
the Austrian and international press,
especially related to the themes of
resistance, oppression, exile, crimes
of war and right-wing extremism. Cur­
rently, the special collection on the
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latter theme proves to be of special
interest to researchers.
The position of DOW versus right-wing
extremism
The way in which DOW-collections
are used in the publ ic debate on
right-wing extremist tendencies in
Austria has resulted in political
attacks from these extremists against
the Archives. DOW is taking an active
stand against anti-Semitic and racist
activities. In this respect, the Aus­
trian government has proved most sup­
portive.
Other projects
DOW organizes educational pro­
jects, like touring exhibitions, bro­
chures, sem i nars and I ectures on
oppression, National Socialism, anti­
Semitism, and racism for high school
and university students, and sponsors
conferences on World War Two and re­
lated subjects.
Belgium
The latest activities of the WWII
Center of Research and Historical
-studies by Jose Gotovitch
In October 1990, the WWII Center
of Research and Historical Studies
organized an international meeting
for the 20th anniversary of its
establishment. The theme was "Bel­
gium, 1940: A Society in Crisis, a
Country at War." About forty papers
covered every subj ect, and a final
discussion brought an internationally
comparative focus on the matter. The
Acts of that meeting, which lasted a
week, are now published. A retrospec­
tive about "World War II in Universi­
ty Teaching and Research" had occur­
red a few weeks ear I ier, and last,
but not least, the same year--a "De
Gaulle year"-- we examined the re­
ports on "De Gaulle, Belgium, and
Free France," from occupied Belgium
to the Congo and the London exile.
Those three events were published by
the Center itself. Moreover, an edit­
ing of the Center's audio files deal­
ing with Belgium from 1936 to summer
1940 was done in association with
Flemish Community Radio, resulting in
a set that includes an illustrated
information brochure.
Another successful achievement of
the Center was the edition of micro­
film on the underground press collec­
tion of the Center, completed by CIS
Academic Editions, with A-Guide to
th~Bel&lum_Underground Eress, des­
cribing each of the 674 available
titles.
The Center also began to enter
its ent ire collect ions into a compu­
ter system. Presently, the catalog of
its printed papers can be checked by
researchers.
Regular publications (Inventair­
es, Cahiers, and Bulletins) are still
being published, but the ~gll~tins
will be published twice per year in a
new version named "30-50," which can
be obtained free of charge upon re­
quest.
Two days of very interesting work
attended by very involved teachers
was devoted to the Flemish extreme
right and to the French-speaking Bel­
gian extreme right, after a work
about "NN" was completed. The first
day's results were recently published
OlLtlQrY_Qf_ thL 201h_~enlury...;.._Th~
Extreme Right in Flanders, 1920-1990,
Kritak-NSCWO II, 1992, 160 pp.). The
50th anniversary of the creation of
the Mandatory Labor Service in Germa­
ny was the occasion for a symposium
in October 1992, which will be pub­
lished soon. It was the occasion for
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the first step in the study of the
war recollect ions of the people de­
ported under the M.L.S. A research
program was accepted by the Collec­
tive Fundamental Research Fund. It is
going to make possible the beginning
of an analysis of political prisoner
files by computer.
A Belgian and Hungarian collo­
quium took place in April 1993. Its
subject was "Two Small Countries in
the Cold War." Concerning the 1944-45
anniversary period, two events are
already planned. In 1994, the social
pact endorsed by employers' and work­
ers' unions--the famous "Belgium Com­
promi se" that set up the social con­
cert system of the postwar period-­
will be studied in association with
the Dutch Language Un i vers i ty of
Brussels. A very important colloquium
to measure the conf Ii ct ' s impact on
soc i,ety from the Ii bera t ion to the
postwar era will take place in 1995.
Study groups are already working on
this broad task.
Fifty years after the end of the
conflict, the fall of socialist
countries opens new fi les to resear­
chers. Missions sent to Potsdam and
Moscow made possible the discovery of
German files dealing with the occupa­
tion of Belgium. Discussion on the
prospects of having them microfilmed
are still in progress.
France
The Contemporary History Institute
(IHTP): a history and introduc­
tion by Henry Rousso
The French component of the In­
ternational Committee on the History
of the Second World War is the IHTP,
which is supported by the principal
French pub Ii c research agency, the
National Center of Scientific
Research. The IHTP, founded by Prof.
Fran~ois Bedarida in 1978, which is
today directed by Prof. Robert Frank,
is the successor of the World War II
History Committee founded in 1951 and
was directed for a long time by the
historian Henry Michel, one of the
ICHSWW founders.
Since its creation, the IHTP has
been retrieving, developing, and com­
pleting the work of the World War II
History Committee, while also widen­
ing the axes of its research, of
which World War Two is only one as­
pect. It currently covers the period
from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Concerning the history of World
War Two, its research focused on
studies of the Vichy regime, on the
social and cultural history of occu­
pied France, and also on studies of
war recollect ions since 1945. Right
now, new studies on World War Two are
dealing with rights, judicial mat­
ters, and repression between 1930 and
1950. They are also dealing with the
history of la Resistance, a field
which was renewed in an absolutely
scientific comparative perspective.
The IHTP has a I ibrary and
archival center where books can be
found, mainly on the period 1930-45.
About a thousand periodicals are also
there, mostly occupation and resis­
tance newspapers. There are also a
few files.
Three or four times per year the
IHTP publishes its lQ!!.rna_1 of_lhe
IHTP. It also publishes the Bulletin
of the IHTP three times per year.
Its most recent publications
include:
Fran<;ois Bedarida and Jean-Pierre
Azeema, with Denis Peschanski and
Henry Rousso (eds.), Ih~_ Yl.£hy
R~glm~_ ~!!g_lh~_ E.r~!!ch (Par is:
I!
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Fayard/IHTP, 1992), 778 pp. [sum­
marizes twenty years of French
and fore i gn hi stor i ography on
Vichy]
Fran<;o i s Bedar i da and Deni s Pes­
chanski (eds.), "Marc Bloch to
Etienne Bloch: Letters from the
'Funny War,'" l.Q!!rn~l_Qf_1.h~
l!!II'.. No. 19 (December 1991).
[letters from an eminent histori­
an to his son, 1939-1940J
Daniele Voldman (ed.), "The Voice of
the Truth? Historical Research
and Oral Sources," Journal of the
IHTP, No. 21 (November 1991). [a
critical summary of "oral his­
tory"]
Leo Hamon and Renee Poznanski,
"Before the Great Roundup: Jews
under the Occupation (June 1940­
Ap r i l l 94 1 ) ," l.Q!!r!!~l_ Qf_ 1.h~
l!!II'. , No. 2 2 ( Dec e mbe r 1992) .
[underground rapport of French
Jewish resistance before the
deportations]
Bruno Aubosson de Cavar lay, Marie­
Sy 1vie Hure, and Mar i e-Lys Pot­
tier, "Penal Justice in France:
Statistical Results (1934-1954),"
l.Q!!rn~l_ Qf_ 1.h~_ I!!II'. , No.
23
(April 1993), "Justice" series.
[the first statistical analysis
of ordinary and extraordinary
justice before, during, and after
the war]
Jean-Claude Farcy and Henry Rousso,
"Justice, Repression, and Perse­
cution in France (From the End of
the 1930s to the Beginning of the
1950s): A Bib 1i 0 g rap hi c Es say, "
Journal of the IHTP, No. 24 (June
1993), "Justice" series. [1200
references about rights, justice,
repression, and persecutions in
France, under the Occupation and
in the immediate aftermath of the
war]
"Notes from Prison by Bertrande d'As­
tier de la Vigerie (15 March-4
Apr i 1 1941)," produced and pre­
sented by Laurent Douzou, Journal
Qf_ 1.h~_ l!!II'. , No. 25 ( 0 c t 0 be r
1993). [reflections of a Resis­
tance fighter incarcerated with
common criminals]
IHTP (ed. ), Wr i t i nL !!i..£1.Q..!:LQL Con­
1.~m2Qr~rY_Ilm~~--=--_ ~_ Ir..LQu t ~_ 1.Q
Er~n~Ql~_BeQ~rlQ~
(Paris: CNRS
Editions, 1993), 417 pp. [day of
re f 1ec ti on abou t t he concept of
contemporary history]
Hungary
The
Hungarian Commi t tee for the
History of the Second World War
by Peter Sipos
The Hungarian Committee for the
History of the Second World War was
reconstituted on 24 March 1993. Prof.
Gyula Juhasz, the Chairman of the
Committee most regretfully passed
away in April 1993. Prof. Peter Sipos
was elected as new Chairman in June
1993.
The Committee and its members had
been taking part as organizers and
participants at conferences, round­
tables, and other events devoted to
the role of Hungarian troops in the
battles on the Eastern front in 1942­
1943 and especially to the tragic
fate of the Hungarian Second Army in
the Great Don Bend in January 1943.
A comprehensive chronicle of the
Second World War will be published in
1994. We have been preparing an Ency­
clopaedia of the Second World War to
be published.
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Italy
The Istituto per La Storia del Movi­
mento di Liberazione in Italia: a
presentation by Giorgio Rochat
The Istituto Nazionale per la
Storia del Movimento di Liberazione
in Italia (INSML), Milan, was estab­
lished in 1949 on the initiative of
antifascist and partisan circles,
with the purpose of collecting docu­
mentary sources and promot ing his­
torical research on the Italian re­
sistance and the fascist regime, from
the years of Mussolini's dictatorship
to the liberation war 1943-45. Its
scientific scope has been gradually
widening to a full coverage of con­
temporary Italian history, while the
early antifascist militants have been
increasingly joined by younger schol
ars who shared their ideals.
The Institute's structure is
fairly loose: a kind of scientific
"network" that counts at present 59
historical research centers, organ­
ized mainly on a regional or local
scale, each of them autonomous and
democratic in statute, with their own
research and publishing projects,
supported by individual archives and
libraries of sometimes extraordinary
importance and by a rich cuI tural
intercourse with the community in
general, especially at the educa­
tional level. A dynamic contribution
to their activity is being provided
by partisan and deportees' associa­
tions, university professors, local
hi stor ians, and numerous young
researchers. The Nat ional Inst i tute,
whose general counci lis formed by
representatives of all associated
Institutes, coordinates the scien­
tific activity of the network, repre­
senting it at the governmental level
and in the field of national and in­
ternational historiography. In parti­
cular, the National Institute and its
first President, the late senator
Ferruccio Parri, played an important
role in the creation of the Comite
international d'Histoire de la Deux­
ieme Guerre Mondiale, which was pre­
sided over by Parri himself until
1970.
It is all but impossible to sum­
marize in a few lines the wide and
complex activity brought on by the
National Institute and its associated
bodies through several hundreds of
books, two dozens of periodicals,
innumerable historical conferences,
and seminars of various size and
character. A detailed record of this
scientific commitment is now provided
by a recent volume edited by Gaetano
Grassi, Resistenza e Storia d'Italia:
Qua£~nl~anni_di_Vil~_dell~l~ilQ1Q
Nazionale e degli Istituti Associati,
1949-1989, which will be sent to the
National Committees on simple re­
quest. The National Institute also
ed i ted a QQig~_ ~gli_ ~£f.hiyi_ g~ll~
Resistenza, an inventorial survey of
the archival resources held by the
whole network as of 1983.
The board of directors of the
Istituto Nazionale is constituted as
follows: Guido Quazza, President;
Giorgio Vaccarino and Mario G. Rossi,
Vice-Presidents; Sergio Passera, Gen­
eral Secretary; Counsellors: Ersilia
Alessandrone Gambardella Perona;
Angelo Bendotti; Francesco Berti
Arnoaldi Veli; Guido D'Agostino;
Angelo Del Boca; Nicola Gallerano;
Laurana Lajolo; Francesco Malgeri;
Gian Giacomo Grtu; Claudio Pavone;
Giorgio Rochat. Managing director is
Francesca Ferratini Tosi; scientific
director and joint director are Mas­
simo Legnani and Gaetano Grassi.
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Among its current activities,
this institute has organized in Bo­
logna, from 24 to 26 November 1993,
an international conference: "II
Regime Fascista Italiano: Bilancio e
Prospective di Studio" ("The I tal ian
Fascist Regime: General Survey and
Prospects for Research). Three sub­
jects were dealt with: the interna­
tional frame (with a roundtable), the
fascist system, society.
Netherlands
The Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocu­
mentatie /State Institute for War
Documentation, Amsterdam: a pres­
entation by Peter Romijn
RIOD, founded on May 5, 1945, the
very day of the Ii bera t i on of the
Netherlands, is the national center
for documentation of the Second World
War in the Netherlands. The Institute
holds a vast collection of archives
-(about 1500 meters of files) and
addi t ional document at ion, related to
the history of the Netherlands-­
including the former Netherlands East
I ndi es, present ly I ndones ia--dur ing
the Second Wor Id War. The mi I itary
angle of the war, however, is mainly
covered by the military history sec­
tions of the Netherlands Armed
Forces. A Ii brary, contai ning about
50,000 titles on all aspects and
theaters of the Second World War, is
available for esearchers.
The Institute, being a branch of
the Ministry of Education, is fully
state supported. Three main tasks are
to be fulfilled: keeping of the arch­
ives and other collections, documen­
tation of the war to the public, and
research into the history of the Sec­
ond World War. Tenured staff amounts
to 24 persons; the present di rector
is (since 1990) Dr. C. M. Schulten.
Since the 1950s, RIOD has been loca­
ted in a main building on the Amster­
dam Herengracht, as well as in an
annex bui lding. Both of these, as a
matter of fact, are not suitable to
keep archives and to accomodate more
than a few studying visitors. The
Director and Board since 1992 have
made strenuous eforts to find new
accomodation and funding to improve
the s i tua t ion. Present ly, prospects
for a solution seem to be most favor­
able.
New archive collections are being
acquired regularly. Very important in
this respect was the opening up of
the archives in the former Soviet
Union. Invited by the Chairman of the
Russian Commission on Archives, Gen­
eral D. A. Volkogonow, RIOD was able
to research into the collect ions of
the former "Special Archive of the
Soviet Union." These contained a var­
iety of documents on the Netherlands
and the Second World War, mainly from
German sources. As a resul t, about
15,000 documents were xeroxed and as
such made a part of RIOD collections.
In 1992, a project was started to
computerize the catalogs of the
library and the inventories of the
archives. External experts were con­
sulted to develop integrated planning
for the realization of this major
project.
The research department of RIOD
consists of five tenured researchers.
Before Professor Luois de long's 14­
volume history of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands dur ing the Second World
War was finished in 1991, a program
for further hi stor ical research was
developed. This refined the tasks of
the research department during the
next ten years. At the same time, the
Ministry of Education decided to
associate RIOD's research with the
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Science.
A committee of the Academy was asked
to evaluate the research department's
accomplishments in the 1985-1990
period. This committee, presided over
by professor Dr. H. Daalder (Leyden
University) and consisting of distin­
guished historians from the Nether­
lands, Belgium and Germany, concluded
that, generally speaking, RIOD' s
research department has performed
well. It was stated that this re­
search deserved to be continued, bec­
ause of its national and interna­
t i onal importance in respect to the
history of the Second World War, as
well as to contemporary history in
general.
In recent years, monographs were
published on the punishment of col­
labora tors as a probl em in post-war
Dutch society; on the Resistance new­
spaper Het Parool, as well as a cri­
tical edition of Anne Frank's diary.
Currently, major projects of research
are monographs on history and memory
in connection with World War Two, on
German-Dutch economic and political
relations before and during the war,
on local government as an instrument
of occupational policy, on the Japan­
ese policy in occupied Indonesia. A
critical edition of the correspon­
dence of a leading Dutch Nazi, M. M.
Rost Van Tonningen, was finished and
published in September 1993.
RIOD's picture department organ­
i zed a wi de 1y a c cl aim edt rave 11 i ng
exhibition on photography in the
Netherlands during the occupation,
accompanied by the publ icat ion of a
book on the same subj ect. Other
exhibitions were also supported by
the staff of the Institute, in the
Netherlands (e.g. on the strike move­
ment of April 1943) as well as in
other countries (Museum Haus an der
Wannsee, Berlin; and the U.S. Holo-
caust Memorial Museum, Washington,
D.C.) .
A large number of researchers,
university and secondary-school stu­
dents, journalists and members of the
general public have consulted RIOD's
collections and the expertise of the
Institute's staff. Another important
task that RIOD performs is the veri­
fication of requests of those citi­
zens who may be entitled to receive
compensation as victims of war and
persecution.
New Zealand
Historical Branch, Department of In­
ternal Affairs by Ian McGibbon
In New Zealand, the attention of
official historians in recent years
has been focused on New Zealand's
involvement in post-Second World War
campaigns. The various fiftieth anni­
versaries of Second World War battles
have received media prominence, but
this has not been reflected in any
upsurge of interest among historians
generally in the Second World War.
Historiographical emphasis in New
Zealand at present is focused very
strongly on social aspects, particu­
larly women and race relations, and
few professional historians are work­
ing on military or international re­
lations topics. There is, however, a
continuing flow of reminiscences from
participants in the Second World War,
with a number of escapee prisoner
accounts appearing recently.
. A major conference on the Second
World War is planned in Wellington in
May 1995. This will cover all aspects
of the conflict, with a particular
focus on New Zealand's part in it.
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Poland
New publications (1989-93) by the
members of the Commission:
Henryk Batowski, Pol ish Diplomacy in
Exile, 1939-1941 (Cracow: 1991).
Eugeni usz Duraczynski
(ed.), Ihe
.s-lkQL~kl=M~l§.kl_AgL~~!.!l~!ll~_A
.s-~l~~lio!l_Qf-~ocgme!ll§. (Warsaw:
1990).
Ryszard Torzecki, Poles and Ukraini­
~!l§'~_ IhL !1kL~l!ll~!l_.Qg~§.11Q!l_ln
the Second World War on the Ter­
r.llQLl~§._Qf_ lh~_ .s-~~Q!l~L Poll§.h
Republic (Warsaw: 1993).
Zbigniew Wawer, The Qrganization of
th~_£Qll§.lL1~n.~LForces in Great
~r.ll~1!li_12±Q=12±i
(Warsaw:
1992) .
Jan E. Zamojski, France at the Cross
---------- , The Polish Government in
~Kll~_1212=12±~~QLg~ni~~lio!li
Personal_Data.J-~olit
ic§. (Warsaw:
RQ~g~_12±l=12±±~_Ih~_.s-lLgggl~
for the Political System of
ing France (Warsaw: 1992).
~om­
1993) .
Krystyna Kersten, Yalta in the Polish
Perspe~liv~ (London and Warsaw:
1989).
Forthcoming publications of
source books (with the participation
of members of the Commission):
Stanislawa Lewandowska, The Press of
Occu2ied_ Vlarsaw.J-193 9-1945 (War­
saw: 1992).
• multi-volume source book on the
Katyn massacre (prepared wi th
the co-operation of the National
Committee of Russian historians)
__________ , The Press of Polish War­
t i!J1LEmlgra t ion.J-1939-1945 (War­
saw: 1993).
• two volumes of sources on Poland
In_ lh~_ 1!l1~L!l~11Q!l~1_EQll~Yi
1939-1947
__________ , Everyday Life in Occupied
M~~Q.Y.l~i_ 1212=12±~
( VI a r saw:
1993).
• five volumes of sources on Polish
Armed Forces in the West, 1939­
1945
Czeslaw Madajczyk, Katyn Drama (War~
saw: 1989). [also published in
German and Russian]
(ed.), Source Book General
Polish edition (1990,
1993) [German edition in the ser­
ies Historische Kommission zu
Berlin]
The Commission also plans to pub­
1ish Ih~_ Y~~r._12±~_ln_EQl~!lg~_Ih~
~on§.~gg~!l~~§._~nd_lh~_Leg~of the
Second World War, containing the fol­
lowing articles and essays:
£l~!l_Q§..L
Andrzej Paczkowski, Stanislaw Mikola­
k~LRealisL~efeate~(Out! ine
of the Pol it ical Biography) (War­
saw: 1991).
Krystyna Kersten, "The Roots of the
Postwar Division of Europe in the
Polish Perspective."
Tomasz Szarota, "The Second World War
Martyrdom and Combat as the Ele­
ments of Polish Consciousness."
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Czes law Luczak, "Wart ime Prerequi­
sites for the Postwar Transforma­
tions in Poland."
Andrezej Paczkowski, "I nternal and
External Prerequi sites for the
Transformation of the political
System in Poland."
Ludomir Zyblikiewicz, "Yalta and
Potsdam: Review of the World His­
toriography. "
Eugeniusz Duraczynski, "Soviet Pat­
tern and National Traits: Poland,
1944-1947."
Marek K. Kaminski, "Polish and Czech­
oslovak Variants of Stalin's Pol­
icy, 1943-1948."
Ryszard Torzecki, "The Influence of
the Second World War on the Rela­
tions between Poles and Ukraini­
ans."
Krystyna Kersten, "Postwar Displace­
ment of Population in East Cen­
t ra I Europe on the Grounds of
Nat ional i ty. "
Conference in Oswiecim (Auschwitz)
organized by Wac law Dlugoborski
Conference organized by the Commis­
sion and Institutes of History,
Polish Academy of Sciences; "Dem­
ographic and Historical Problems
of the Second World War" (Decem­
ber 1993)
Main researches:
Researches on the relationship be­
tween Poland and her neighbors
(Eugen i usz Duraczynski: Po land
and Soviet policy, 1921-1945; Jan
Zamojski, Ryszard Torzecki: Poles
in the USSR and their vicissi­
tudes)
Stanislawa Lewandowska, Rafal Habiel­
ski: research on the Polish press
during the Second World War
Rev. Zygmunt Zielinski: research on
the history of churches in the
Third Reich
Russia
Krzysztof Dunin-Wasowicz, "Remember­
ing the Concentration Camps."
Recent conferences:
Conferences commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising (Institute of History of
the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Jewish Historical Institute of
Poland)
Conference commemorating the 54th
anniversary of Soviet aggression
on Poland (17th September 1939)
organized by Henryk Batowski
(Cracow)
Forthcoming International Conference
in Moscow (September 6-7 in Mos­
cow)
The National Committee of Russian
Historians, the Institute of World
History, the Russian Academy of Sci­
ences, and the Russian Association of
Second World War Historians, with the
support of the ICHSWW, will hold an
international scientific conference
on: "The Second Wort d War and It s
Place in the History of the 20th Cen­
tury," September 6-7, 1994, in Mos­
cow.
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This confernce will make it possible for historians of many countr ies to meet, to exchange perspec,tives and opinions about their studies on the war, to honor the memory
of the war vi ct ims, and to promote
knowledge of history for the new
generation and for reconciliation of
the world community in general.
The registration fee is $200 for
historians and $300 for accompanying
persons. A one-day journey to St.
Petersburg will be possible at the
additional cost of $300 per person.
Accomodat ions in a hotel, transport from and to the ai rport, and a
cultural program will be covered by
the fee.
Participants' arrival is expected
in Moscow on September 5 and departure on September 9.
A New Newsletter
The Russian Association of Second
World War Historians, affiliated to
the National Committee of Russian
Hi stor ians, has publ ished the fi rst
issue of its Information Bulletin
(No.1, 1993). This newsletter is
available in an English version. The
price of the first issue is $5, and
it can be bought from the Russ ian
Association of Second World War Historians. The next issue will be available by sending $10 to the Treasury
of the International Committee for
the History of the Second World War,
Dr. Peter Romijn (RIOD, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Herengracht 474, 1017 CA Amsterdam).
The first issue gives a lot of
information about the situation of
the Russian historians, the new
institutions, especially those working on the Second World War, and a
bibliography of books published in
the Russian federation, in the CIS
countries as well as abroad.
,
At tent ion has to be paid to a
very detailed article presenting the
various archives and documents centers in Moscow which have the most
important material related to the
per i od: t he Russ i an Center for the
Conservation and Study of Documents
on Contemporary History, the State
Archive of the Russian federation,
the Russian State Economy Archive,
the Department's Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of
State Security, etc.
Pro A. O. Chubarian, Pro M. O.
Rzheshevsky
Tel.: (7) 095 938 17 66
Fax: (7) 095 938 22 88
Secretariat: Margarita Kouzmina
Michael Mjagkov
[Editor's Note: Excerpts from the
first Russian newsletter appear in
this number of the WWTSA Newsletter,
beginning on p. 31.]
United Kingdom
The activities of the British Committee for the History of the
Second World War (1986-1993) by
Jonathan Chadwick
The Br it ish Commi t tee has he ld
its first bilateral meetings with the
German Committee (Leeds, 1986, and
Hamburg, 1989), with the Italians
(Imperial War Museum, London, 1990),
and with the Norwegians (St. Antony's
College, Oxford, 1991). The Committee
was represented by Sir William Deakin
at the Italian Conference, "Italy at
War, 1940-1943" (Brescia, 1989), by
Malcom Mackintosh at an international
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conference "The Opening of the Second
World War" (American University at
Par is, 1989), by Al exandra Ward and
Major-General John Strawson at a conference on "The Battle of the River
Sangro, 1943-1944" (Atessa, 1990),
and by Professor David Dilks at the
International Committee's conference,
"The Road to War" (ICHS, Madrid,
1990). Also in 1991, Professor Dilks
organized an international conference
on "Operation Barbarossa," held at
the University of Leeds. The Committee is currently planning, subject to
the availability of funding, an international conference to be held in
London in Spri ng 1995 on "The End of
the War in Europe, 1945." Since the
BNC's first colloquium in 1971, it
has been a feature of them that, in
addition to the distinguished scholars, contributions have been made by
part icipants in or wi tnesses of the
events under discussion (such as
diplomats, officials, soldiers, and
pol i ticians).
Editorial work with publication
in mind is in hand by Professor Dilks
and Professor Muller (the two Bri tish-German conferences on German Resistance to the Nazi regime and the
British response to it), Professor
Dilks and Professor Erickson (Operation Barbarossa), and Dr. Patrick
Salmon and Dr. Mats Berdal (AngloNorwegian relations). Professor Gooch
has agreed in principle to edit the
papers of the Anglo-Italian colloquium.
I~for~~tio~
of
R~ssi~~
Bu~~eti~
the
Associ~tio~
Seco~d
World
of
W~r
Historia.~s
Selected excerpts, reprinted
with the kind permission of A.
O. Chubarian and M. O. Reshevsky.
Research in Russia
Prepared by Prof. V. Zimonin, Prof.
I. Amosov, Prof. L. Pozdeeva, Dr.
E. Kul 'kov, Prof. G. Kumanev,
Prof. V. Mar'ina, Dr. L. Gibianskiy, and Prof. V. Smirnov.
Nearly thirty topics were worked
out for the past two years in the
Institute of Military History, Ministry of Defense. For the same period,
nearly 300 informations or references
were prepared for the Supreme Soviet,
Russian Federation (RF) Government,
Ministry of Defense and the General
Staff; hundreds of letters by war
veterans and their family members
were answered.
About twenty books and pamphlets
were publ ished. Many of them dealt
with the Second World War and its
lessons: "Yalta, 1945: Problems of
War and Peace," "The Stal ingrad
Offensive," "List of Large Formations
and Units of the Soviet Ministry
Forces in the Great Pa tr iotic War,"
"Some Questions of Soviet Military
History as Treated by Western Historiography," "Military History and the
Security of the Motherland," "Military Hi story and Urgent Probl ems of
Modern Military Theory and Practice,"
three collective works "Study in Mil-
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itary History," "Collective Works by
Young Scholars," NN3-5, etc.
Some works have been prepared for
publication. Among them is the collection of documents entitled "The
Forging of the Red Army in the Orders
of the USSR's People's Defense Commisariat, 1937-1941," vol. 1-2, "The
Red Army on the Eve of War (Materials
from the Conference of the Supreme
Military Council, December 1940),"
"The Battle of Byelorussia," "On the
Banks of the Amur River (The Far East
in the Prewar Years)," "The Region in
Fire: The Main Problems of the Pacific Ocean War," "The Military Doctrine of the Country of the Rising
Sun: The Evolution," etc.
A number of research conferences
were he Id, among them those devoted
to the f i ft i eth ann i versary of the
Great Patriotic War, forty-fifth
anniversary of the victory over Japan, fiftieth anniversary of the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, and a
number of "roundtables" on the problems of the history of the Second
World War.
The large program of publication
of military encyclopedias began. It
includes the development of the 8volume Russian Military Encyclopedia,
RAS). The work on EssaY§ as well as
on the 50-volume series of documentary co 11 ec ti ons ent i tl ed Ihe_ Great
Patriotic War. 1941-1945 is intended
to create a base for the multi-volume
set on the History of the Great Patriotic War. The beginning of allaround analysis of statistical information, aimed at creation of a databank of military statistics for the
per iod of the Second and the Great
Patriotic War seems promising. In
1991-1992, the international contacts
of the Institute were marked by considerable growth. Cooperation with
military and history institutes of
Western countries improved, and contacts with researchers in China,
Japan, Israel, and the Republic of
Korea were established.
Seven official delegations of
military historians (from Norway,
Canada, Germany, Italy, China, and
the Republic of Korea) were received
in the Institute.
The Institute's scholars visited
Spain, France, and Germany. Proposals
on the preparation of joint works-collections of articles and documents, reciprocal publications of
articles, rendering assistance for
work in archives mainly on the probMiliigrY_~n~y~lQP~gi~_Ql~ilQngrY lems of the Second World War--were
(yearbook), Mll1igry_~nc~1Q~gi~ discussed.
Dictionaries (reference books on the
Cooperation under the auspices of
branches of RF mi 1i tary forces and international organizations--the
their arms of services and also devo- International Commission of Military
ted to the separate branches of know- History (ICMH) and the International
1edge, of spec ial importance among Bibliographical Committee (IBC)--went
them is The Naval Historical Encyclo- on. The representatives of the Instip~glg, editor-in-chief Professor V.
tute participated in the work of the
A. Zolotarev).
XVII I nternational Congress on Mi 1iThe preparation of the 4-volume tary History in Zurich and XVIII ConThe Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: gress in Turin, and also at the meetHistorical Essays is being carried on ing of the Bureau of ICMH and the
in cooperation with the Institute of Bibliographical Committee.
Universal History (IUH, RAS) and the
The researchers delivered the reInstitute of Russian History (IRH, ports at the international confer-
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ences and symposia held in Canada--on
the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War
(A. S. Orlov) , in Japan--on the Nomonhan Incident (V. P. Zimonin, V. N.
Vartanov) and on the topic "New Views
on the Patriotic War--Fifty Years
After" (V. N. Bogdanov), in Romania-"The Army during the Formation of the
National States" (A. P. Visaulin), on
Romania's entrance into the Second
World War (A. G. Horkov and A. V.
Shishov), in the US--"How Did We Perceive Each Other in the War Years?"
(A. S. Orlov) , and "The Treatment of
Prisoners of War during the War
Years" (V. M. Gobarev), in Poland--on
the military operations of the Krajowa Army (A.G. Horkov), in Germany in
February 1993--on the fiftieth anniversary of the batt Ie of Stalingrad
(A. N. Bazhenov, A. M. Sokolov).
Articles by Institute researchers
V. P. Zimonin and Iu. M. Stchebenkov
dealing with the Soviet Army's campaign in the Far East were published
in'The U.S.S.R.'s Policy Toward Japan, edited in Tokyo in 1991. In 1992,
three articles, by A. G. Horkov, A.
S. Kniazkov, and V. A. Pron'ko, were
published in the Russo-German collective work Stalingrad.
Considerable amounts of work were
done to supp ly research informat ion
to a touring group of forty-five military historians from the U.S. The
group also included historians from
Great Britain, Sweden, and Taiwan.
Institute researchers prepared and
conducted historical sightseeing
tours in Moscow, at Borodino, and in
Sevastopol. A joint colloquium on the
broad range of mi Ii tary history was
held; problems of the history of the
Second World War occupied a prominent
place, among other subjects.
The international conference "The
Second World War Victory: Victory for
Peace" and presentation of the international peacemaking event "The Peace
Parade of 1993" were held at the Institute in September 1993. Representatives of NATO leadership, diplomats, and foreign researchers from
the Institute (1. A. Amosov, A. N.
Bezhenov, V. M. Gobarev, V. P. Zimonin, A. S. Orlov, V. B. Seoev) were
among the speakers in Yalta at the
conference held there in April 1992
and devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of the Yal ta Conference among
the Allied leaders. Also,!. A. Amosov, V. P. Zimonin, G. M. Ivanitskiy,
A. N. Pochtarlov, and V. G. Redanskiy
delivered papers at the conference
"All ied Naval Escorts in the North,
1941-1945."
Assistance was rendered to scholars from Germany, Romania, Mongolia,
Poland, Bulgaria, and other countries, working on the problems of the
Second World War. Agreements were
reached on the joint works SovietPoli~h_Rel~11Qn~_4gring_lhe_~~cond
~Qr14_~~r, ~Qyl~l=tlgngarl~n_R~l~­
tions: Military Aspects, and a joint
documentary collections project.
Over the 1as t two years, more
than seventy delegations and individual researchers have been received
at the Institute. Return visits by
Institute researchers are planned to
Italy, China, and Belgium. Invitations to deliver lectures were received from Italy and Sweden. However, because of money shortages, it is
difficult to organize such visits
this year.
The Institute of Universal History, RAS, is one of the leading
research centers in the country; the
history of wars and international
conflict, including the history of
the Second World War, is an important
part of the Institute's scholarly
activities. Along with other research
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establishments, the Institute participated in the preparation of the 12vo I ume H..i.§.lQ£Y_ Qi_lhe_ .s.econd Wor Id
War, 1939-1945 (Moscow: 1973-82), the
international work Ihe_Second World
War: ~Short History (Moscow: 1985),
Ih~_ .s.Qyl~l_ M.illlfl,LY_ ~n~IT1QQ~glg ,
Vols. 1-8 (Moscow: 1979-85), and
other collective works,
Institute historians published a
number of individual monographs predominantly deal ing wi th the sociopolitical history of the countries of
western Europe and the history of
international relations during the
Second World War period.
In recent years, researchers at
the Institute have prepared some new
works: 12.l2.~Ihe_LessonLof History
(Moscow: 1990); Resistance Movements
in Western Europe, vols. 1-2 (Moscow,
1990- 91 ); ~Y£QQ~_ R~l'!'l~~n_ Wg£_ gng
Peace (Moscow: 1992); The Prewar Cri.§..i.§._ of_12.12._ln_ nQ~Ymenl.§. (Moscow:
1992); and Yalta, 1945: The Problems
Qf_Wa£_gng_£~g~~ (Moscow: 1992, in
cooperation with IMH, MD). The monographs of academician G. N. Sevostianov The European Crisis and the U.S.
£Q.§.lllQni_12.1~=12.12. (Moscow: 1990)
and Prof. D. Nadzhafov U.S. NeutralllYi_12.1~=12.±1 (Moscow: 1990) were
also published.
The following articles, chapters
in collective works, and conference
presentations should be mentioned:
"National Pol icies on the Eve of the
Second World War and the Prewar Crisis in Europe" (Z. S. Belousova, D.
G, Nadzhafov, G. N. Sevestianov, N.
D. Smirnova, S. P. Pozharskaia, et
aLl; "The Anti-Hitler Coalition,"
(L. v, Pozdeeva, M. L. Korobochkin);
"The Fascist-Militarist Coalition"
(B. R, Lophukov, E. N. Kul 'kov); "Soviet-German Relations" (0. V. Vishlev, E. N. Ku I 'kov); "The Ka tyn Massacre Tragedy" (N. S. Lebedeva), etc.
Work on collective and individual
monographs is underway: The Allies in
the War of 1941-1945, joint effort of
British, Russian, and American historians (with W. Kimball, D. Reynolds, and A. O. Chubarian as editors). A joint effort by Russian and
Finnish scholars, Th~Winter War of
1939-1940: A Political History (editors: O. Vehvilainen and O. A. Rzheshevsky) is also underway. The monographs include: Soviet-German Relalion~i_12.12.=12.±1 (0. V. Vishlov);
Q~£!!!g1lY_gng_ll.§._ Alll~.§._ gy r i ng_lh.e.
Second World War (E. N. Kul'kov); The
WgK-.in_BY.§..§.lgi-1941=12.±~i_gng_Il.§.
ReflectionLin Qreat_Britain (1. V.
Pozdeeva); ~h_£yQli~_QQlnl.Q!Land
American-Soviet Relati~1939-1945
(V. V. Pozniakov); and The Katyn Massacre Crime (N. S. Lebedeva).
Preparation of an 8-volume edit ion of Th~ Comintern an.d- Its_Documents, based on declassified sources,
is also underway. The volume The Comintern and the Second World War, Part
I (1939-1941) from this series (edited by M. M. Narinsky and N. S. Lebedeva) is ready for publication. Work
on the second volume of this series
(concerning the 1942-1945 period) has
begun, as has work on the 4-volume
documentary set The Katyn Tragedy (N.
S. Lebedeva) and on The Balkans during the Second World War (N. D. Smirnova) .
In 1991-92, international contacts between the researchers with
the historical institutions and
scholars from foreign countries were
developing. The Institute rendered
assistance to foreign researchers for
their work in Russian archives and
libraries. The topics relevant for
research of the per iod 1939-45 and
the possibility of broadening the
joint efforts were discussed during
the meetings with historians of the
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U.S., Great Britain, Germany, and
Finland.
In 1991-92, the researchers of
the Institute delivered reports at
international conferences and symposia: in Great Britain and Canada at
the conference devoted to~the 50th
anniversary of Barbarossa (0. A.
Rzheshevsky); in the U.S. on the
topic "The Politics and Strategy of
the Anti-Hitler Coalition in 1944"
(G. N. Sevestianov; M. M. Narinsky,
E. N. Kul' kov); in Germany on the
topic "Interwar Alliances in the
.Balkan-Danube Region" (N. D. Smirnova); in Belgium on th(:. topic "The
Second World War" (N. S. Lebedeva);
in Finland on the history of neutrality (A. a. Tchurbarian, N. D. Smirnova); in Poland at the conference
wi thin the framework of "Conscience
Week" (N. S. Lebedeva); at Yalta (in
the Crimea) on "1945: From War to
Peace" (G. N. Sevestianov, a. A.
Rzheshevsky, L. V. Pozdeeva, V. L.
Mal 'kov, E. N. Kul 'kov, N. S. Lebedeva, V. V. Pozniakov); in Moscow at
the First Symposium of USSR-Japan
historians (L. V. Pozdeeva); and also
in Moscow on the topic "The USSR's
Foreign Policy: A Retrospective" (Z.
S. Belousova, D. G. Nadzhafov). The
Institute organized a "roundtable" on
the topic "The Controversial Problems
of the Second World War," where a. v.
Vishlev, N. 1. Egorova, E. N. Kul'kov, N. S. Lebedeva, V. L. Mal'kov,
L. V. Pozdeeva, R. F. Ivanov, and A.
a. Tchurabian presented reports.
Questions relating to the history
of the Second World War were considered at the international conference
devoted to "Cold War" problems (Moscow, 1993). One session of the internat ional conference "The Jews and
Their Life in Russia and the Soviet
Union" (1993) dealt with the period
of the Second World War.
The Institute put forward the
initiative to hold, in September 1993
in Moscow, an international conference entitled "The Second World War
and Its Place in the History of the
Twentieth Century." This proposal was
supported by the International Committee for the History of the Second
World War. Institute researchers are
actively participating in the preparation of an All-Russian MCIllory_.r&Q]~
to pay tribute to all who lost their
lives during the Great Patriotic War.
The Center of Military History of
Russia, In~titllt.p. f)f PII~~jn" IIi",!.,,,:!
could not because of money shortages
pub 1 ish in 1992 such works as Ihg
SOy i ~f(eas_g!!T!DK __ 1h~__C_LQ.sjng_fJ~LLo_d.
Qf-lhe_Gr~~1_f~1£lQl1~_~~£_112!4­
1945), The Pages of the Great Patriotic War, The Partisans in the Battle
of Moscow, and some other works already prepared by the researchers. At
the same time, the IRH,RAS, in cooperation with the IMH,MD, edited the
two final books of the 4-volume work
Th~_R~Q_~anner_~£11ic_Navy_ln_lh~
QKeal_PatriQl1~~~L-Qf_lh~_~Qyl~1
People, 1941-1945. In the third book
(Ih~_Red Ban!l~K_~~ll.iLNavy in the
Battle for the Baltic States and Leningrad), di fferent aspects of naval
operations in this region were analyzed. The fourth book (IhL ~~llis.
~E:IIQL~_ln_~~~_ ~nsL 1~!lQ_ ~~111es--,­
1941-194~J
is devoted to the final
operations of the ships of the Baltic
fleet during the defense of Leningrad
and the liberation of the Baltic
states.
Among the authors of articles and
materials for several collective
works are the researchers of the Center. These include Dr. V. H. Zemskov,
"'The Kulak Exi ie' on the Eve of and
during the Great Patriotic War,"
~Q~lQIQgl~~l_~ygl~~, 1992, No.2,
" S p e cia 1 Set tie r s ," ~Q~lQIQgl~£l
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Spring 1994
.sJudie~,
t ion of the researchers in various
conferences. Papers on the Second
World War were presented at international conferences, as follows: by
Professor G. A. Kumanev, "On the
Military and Economic Deliveries of
the U.S. and Great Britain to the
Soviet Union during the War Years" at
the conference "The Second Wor ld War
and Documentary Films" Washington,
D.C., February 1992, "Lend-Lease: Its
Role in the War" at the symposium
devoted to the fiftieth anniversary
of the ALSIB air route, Fairbanks,
Alaska, July 1992, and "Stalin and
the Surprise Factor of Hitler's
Attack on the Soviet Union" for the
Russian-German colloquium in Moscow,
November 1992; by Professor A. V.
Basov, "On the 'Spark Operation'" at
the conference "Fifty Years Since the
Leningrad Blockade Breakthrough" in
St. Petersburg and "New Documents on
the 'PQ-17' Convoy" at the conference
"The Allied Arctic Convoys in 19411945," Moscow, February 1993; and by
Professor N. K. Petrova, "The Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee: Reality and
Fal sehood " at the conference "The
Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and
the U.S.S.R.," Moscow, April 1993.
The researchers took part in a
number of all-Russian symposia, conferences, and "roundtables" devoted
to the fiftieth anniversary of the
Battle of Stalingrad in the IMH,MD in
November 1992 (the presenters were
Professors G. A. Kumanev and B. I.
Ih~_Q[~~1_ratriQli~_~~ri_12±1=1945 Zverev); the "roundtable" "Controver(in cooperation with the IMH,MD and sial Problems of the Second World
IUH,RAS); Assistance to Russia, 1941- War" in IUH,RAS, November 1992 (Pro1945 (Lend-Lease: Its Role and Place fessors G. A. Kumanev and N. K. Pein the War); and Marshal Zhukov: Doc- trova); and the conference at Russian
uments and Materials on the Military Humanitarian University in November
1992 (Dr. V. N. Zemskov).
l~~der~~_A~liyilie~, 3 volumes (in
cooperation with the IMH,MD).
Consul tations were rendered to
An important part in the activi- foreign schola~s by the Center: Dr.
ties of the Center is the participa- E. Backon (Great Britain) consulted
1990, No. 11, and "Special
Sett lers from the Crimea," The Crimean Republic, 1992, Nos. 7-10; correspondi ng member of the Academy of
Natural Sciences, RF (ANS,RF) Professor G. A. Kumanev, "The Soviet Economy and the Evacuation of 1941" and
"On the Mi I i tary Preparedness of the
U.S.S.R. and the Surprise Fascist
Attack," The Soviet Union (the American journal), 1991, Vol. 18, Nos. 13, "The Inglorious War wi th the FarReaching Consequences," Native History, 1992, No.5, and "What Happened
in Manila?" New Times, 1992, No. 23;
and Professor N. K. Petrova, "Relations between the Jewish Community
and the U.S. during the War," American Yearbook, Moscow, 1992.
The preparation of the following
monographs is underway: by Professor
B. I. Zverev, The Military-Industrial
Base of the USSR in 1938-1941; by Dr.
V. A. Perezhogin, The Lessons of Part i salL..s.trugg1es~ 1941-1942; by Professor G. A. Kumanev, War and Evacuation~1941-1942; by Professor N. K.
Petrova, The International Activities
of the Anti-Fascist Committees during
the Great Patriotic War; by Dr. E. I.
Grakina, The Contribution of Russian
Federation Scientists to the VictoIY
over_Fascism; by Dr. V. H. Zemskov,
The Repatriation of Soviet Citizenh
1944-1952; etc.
The Center's researchers participated in the preparation of collective works, including: the 4-volume
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Dr. M. S. Zinich on the economic
development of the U.S.S.R. in 19401945, researchers A. Todd (U.S.) and
Ulziygeorge (Mongolia) consulted
Professor N. K. Petrova. A number of
foreign scholars--M. Dichock (Canada), M. Kravery (Italy), C. Chisler
(Germany), A. Getty (U.S.), E. Rittersporn (France--consulted Dr. V. N.
Zemskov on the statistics of Stalin's
Gulag system and the fate of its prisoners. Professor G. A. Kumanev had
discussions with Dr. M. Charlton, Dr.
L. Sampton, and Dr. G. Barber (Great
Britain), as well as Professor S.
Minor, Professor W. Armstrong, and
Dr. T. Parry (U.S.). He is also the
research adviser for American probationer K. Van Dike (Cambridge, US).
In the Institute of Slavic Studies, RAS, the researchers concentrated their work on the history of the
resistance movement in central and
southeastern Europe. The following
aspects of this problem were discussed at a "roundtable"; resistance
movement periodization, the movement's influence on the international
situation, events at the battle
fronts, Comintern policy, and the
character and forms of the resistance
movement. Materials from the session
were published in MoQ~nLHislQr.Y,
1990, No.6.
The collective work Ihe_Re.§.i.§.lfl,nce_Movement_i.!Llhe Countries of
~~.!l1r.~1_~.!lQ_ .s.Q.!!lh~~.§.l~r..!l_~1!r.Q.2.h
1939-1945 (editor in chief, Professor
V. V. Mar'ina) has been prepared for
publication. It centers on the role
and place of different social and
political forces in the resistance
movements and the evolution of their
programs. An attempt was made to show
the contradictory and evolutionary
positions of both the forces that
fought aftainst Nazism llnd those that
opposed the pro~rc5fi,i\'c front. The
study is based mainly on new archival
materials, including those from Russian archives.
In 1989-91, research on the topic
"The Countries of Central and Southeastern Europe in the System of International Relations on the Eve and
in the Beginning of the Second World
War" was undertaken at the Institute.
As a resul t, several books and
articles were published. They include
the anthologies Ihe Political Crisis
of 1939 and the Countries of Central
~.!l4-.s.Q.!!lh~~.§.1~r..!l_~.!!r.ope, editor-inchief 1. 1. Pop (Moscow, 1989);
International Relations and the Countri~'§'_Qf_Ce.!llr.~l_~.!lQ_.s.Q.!!lhea.§.1~r..!l
Europe in the Beginning of the Second
YlQr.lQ_ Yl~r.-,-_ .s.~.2.1~!!lQ~r._ 1212=!'1.!!g.!!.§.1
1940, editor-in-chief L. Ya. Gibianskiy (Moscow, 1990); and International
RelalionL~nd_the ~ountries QLCentr~_and Southeastern ~urop~Quring
the Fascist Aggression in the Balkans
~.!lQ_ .E.r.~.2.~r.~li0 n s _ fQr._lh~_ At tack 0 n
lh~_ !l-,-.s.-,-.s.-,-R-,--,-_ Se .2.1~!!lQ~r._12±Q= J U.!l~
Uti, edi tors L. Ya. Gibianskiy and
S. Z. Slutch (Moscow, 1992).
Professors and lecturers of the
History facul ty, Moscow State Univers i ty, have made tradi t ional contributions to the study of the war.
Professor V. P. Smirnov (Chair of
Modern History) has wri tten "On the
Character of the Second World War,"
MoQ~r..!l_ Hi.§.lQr.Y, 1989, No.3; "The
'Whi te Spots' in the History of the
Second World War," Th~_.s.Qcial Science.§., 1989, No.3; the chapters on
the history of the Second World War
for the higher school textbook The
MQQ~r..!l_ Hi.§.l 0 ry_ Qf_l he_ Co un t ri e s 0 f
Europe and America, Volume r (Moscow;
1989); "Charles De Gaulle," Ih~
FreJ.1ch Y_earbQ.Qj(_.198JJ. (Moscow: 1990);
"General Charles De Gaulle during the
Second World War Years: The Formation
of the Gaullist Ideology," Modern
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History, 1990, No.6; and "The State
of Soviet Research on the Fortieth
Years in France," The Fortieth Years
in Europe: Proceedings of the Internation~Col1Qguium_in_Cannes (Cannes: 1991). The study "The Comintern
and the French Communist Party during
the Second World War" is underway.
Associate Professor Dr. N. N.
Naumov (Chair of Russian History) has
contributed the chapters on the Great
Patriotic War in The Textbook on Russian History (Moscow: 1989); "Soviet
Economic Losses in 1941," a paper
given at the international colloquium
"1941" in Cannes, 1991; and "The
Soviet Historiography on the Battle
of the Atlantic," a paper delivered
at the international colloquium in
Liverpool, 1993.
Associate Professor Dr. Yu. A.
Schetinov (Chair of Russian History)
has written the chapters on the Great
Patriotic War for the textbook Russian History (Moscow: 1993).
In 1992, on the initiative of the
St. Petersburg branch of the IRH,RAS
and the voluntary society "Cit izens
of the Leningrad Blockade," the Association of the Historians of the Leningrad Blockade (AHLBB) was organi zed. Many lead i ng scho lars of St.
Petersburg, studying the problem of
the Second World War and the defense
of Leningrad, joined it.
The new historical association is
quite active. It held two international conferences devoted to the
Battle of Leningrad in 1941-44 and to
the fiftieth anniversary of the lifting of the siege. Historians from
Germany, Finland, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Moldavia took part in the
discussions. The papers of Dr. A
Klare (Germany) and of Professor O.
Manninen and Dr. U. Mulluniemi (Finland), who stated their positions on
the Battle of Leningrad, were of much
interest.
Among the St. Petersburg historians, the papers of Professors F. B.
Komal, V. M. Kovalchuk, V. M. Ezhov,
G. L. Sobolev, B. P. Belozerov, A. R.
Dzenisevitch, A. V. Kutuzov, and N.
I. Baryshnikov (vice-president of the
association) were very informative.
Basically they dealt with the unknown
dates and facts that can help us
understand more profoundly the events
under consideration.
The association made its first
steps in its publication activities.
The preparation of the book Leningrad
in Ba ttle1-Mon~Qy_Month is underway. Transcripts of the conferences
held will be published. The publication of an Association yearbook The
Leningrad Epic is also planned.
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F. Yarovoy, Hitl~r's_H~ad­ The Center for the Conservation of
Modern Documentation (CCMD) (for(Moscow: Prometey,
merly the Centra.l Committee CPSU
1992), 143 pp.
Archive)
103132 MOSCOW, Iliynka st., Bldg.
42. The_Great .EatriotlLWar. Toward
the_50th Anniversary: Chronicle
12
Acting Director:
of Events and the Documents, 4th
Procopenko Anatoliy Stepanovitch
Edition (Moscow: ITAR-TASS,
Tel.: 206-23-21
1992), 94 pp.
Secretariat: 206-21-28
The Center collected materials of
the Secretariat and the departments
Materials of the
of the Central Committee CPSU, basiRussian Archives
cally after 1953, but including some
on the Second World War
problems from the preceding period.
by N. S. Lebedeva
The Russian Center for the ConservaSignificant amounts of materials
tion and Study of Documents on
of the history of wars are deposited
Contemporary History (RCCSDCH)
(formerly the Central Party
both in state historical archives
Archives)
(archives subordinated to the State
Archive Service, which is attached to
103821 MOSCOW, Pushkinskaja st.,
the government of the Russian FederaBldg. 15
tion) and in acting departments' arDirector:
chives.
Dr. Anderson Kirill Mikhailovitch
Tel.: 229-97-26
The State Archive Service (The RusDeputy director:
sian Archives)
Naumov Oleg Vladimirovitch
Tel.: 200-51-42
103132 MOSCOW, Iliynka St., Bldg.
The Center possesses materials of
12
the Central Committee CPSU (SecretarHead of Service:
iat, departments, personal funds) of
Professor Pihoja Rudolf Germanothe Communist Parties in the other
vitch
countries, of the leaders of internaChief Archivist of Russia
tional communist and labor movements,
Tel.: 206-37-70
Comintern, Profintern, the State
Fax: (095) 200-42-05
Defense Counc iI, etc., before 1953.
Deputies:
Some important documents--those of
Tuneev Vladimir Alexandrovitch
Pol i tburo and a number of other or(206-23-23)
ganizations--are concentrated in the
Kozlov Vladimir Petrovitch (206President's Archives RF and are lia23-26)
ble to transfer to RCCSDCH (the documents before 1953) and CCMD (after
One can find materials on the war 1953).
in the following archives and document centers:
41. A.
g'!!.Q,I.l~I.§'
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The State Archives of the Russ ian
Federation (a union of the former
Central State Archives .of the
October Revolution and the Central State Archives of the RF)
119817 GSP, MOSCOW, G-435, Bolshaja
Pirogovskaja St., Bldg. 17
Director:
Mironenko Sergey Grigorievitch
Tel.: 222-12-87
Secretariat: 245-19-25
The archives possess the material
of the Council of People's Commisars,
the Council of Ministers, the Central
People's Commissariats and Ministries, public and other organizations, certain parts of the People's
Commissariats of Internal Affairs,
and the People's Committee of State
Securi ty.
The Russian State Economy Archives
(RSEA) (formerly the Central
State Archives of the National
Economy)
119817 MOSCOW, Bolshaja Pirogovskaja St., Bldg. 17
Director:
Turina Elena Alexandrovna
Tel.: 246-48-56
245-26-64
The Archives possess the materi·als of the People's Commissariats
responsible for the economy, including the documents on Lend-Lease.
The Russian State Military Archives
(formerly the Central State Soviet Army Archives)
117212 MOSCOW, Admiral Markarov
S1., Bldg. 29
Director:
Zaporozhchenko Victory Fedorovitch
Tel.: 159-88-39
Deputy Director:
Dvoinykh Ludmila Vasilievna
Tel.: 159-98-61
The Archives possess the materials of the People's Commissariat of
Defense, the General Staff, the military districts, the military judicial
office, Soviet Army units (including
escort and internal troops before 22
June 1941), escort troops before 1945
and sometimes up to 1950, the western
Ukrainian and the western Byelorussian campaigns of 1939, the Finland
campaign of 1939-40, plans for bringing troops to the Baltic states, and
also USSR foreign policy plans sent
to the Commisar of Defense in the
prewar years.
The Center for the Conservat ion of
Historical and Documentary Collect ions (formerly the Special
Archives)
125212 MOSCOW, Vyborgskaja St.,
Bldg. 3
Director:
Bondarev Victor Nikolaevitch
Tel.: 159-73-83
The Archives contain captured
fi les from Germany, including those
confiscated by Germany from France,
Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium,
Poland, etc. There are collections on
repatriation, files of regional departments on prisoners of war, etc.,
The Departments' Archives
The State Archive Service is in
charge of the regional archives network, which also possesses important
materials on Russian history during
the war period.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs RF
(MFA RF)
The Board of History and Documents,
MFA RA
112200 MOSCOW, Smolenskaja-Sennaja
Square, Bldg. 32/34
Tel.: 244-32-19
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Head of the Board:
Dr. Lebedev Igor Vladimirovitch
Tel.: 244-29-38
MFA RF is in charge of t he Russian Foreign Policy Archives (formerly the USSR Foreign Policy Archives).
possessing materials from after 1918
and the Foreign Policy of the Russian
Empire Archives.
The Ministry of Defense RF
The Historical, Archival, Military,
and Memorial Center of the General Staff, RF Armed Forces
103160 Moscow, Znamenko St., Bldg.
19
Head:
Colonel Venkov Igor Nikolaevitch
Tel.: 296-53-48
The Center is in charge of the
Central Archives of the Ministry of
Defense in Podolsk. the Central Archives of the Navy in St. Petersburg.
and a number of other collections.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs
(MIA) RF
The Center for the Rehabilitation of
the Vict ims of Pol it i cal Repression and Archive Information for
the Main Information Center, MIA
101000 MOSCOW, Mjasnitskaja St.,
Bldg. 3
Head:
Nikishin Konstantin Sergeevitch
Te 1.: 222-41-24
The Center is in charge of the
MIA Central Archives, which possess
the files of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs MIA and its
boards as well as regional and other
active archives.
The Ministry of State Security (MSS)
RF
The Central Archives of MSS
101000 MOSCOW, Lubjanskaya Square,
Bldg. 3
Head:
Krahushkin Anatoliy Afanasievitch
Tel.: 244-31-49
The Archives contain the significant part of the materials of the
People's Commissariat of Internal
Affairs and People's Commissariat of
State Security for the period of the
Second World War.
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