Internet Modern History Sourcebook
World War II
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Contents
Lead Up to War
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War In Europe
- WEB World War II Database: Documents 1940-45 [At WWIIdB] [Internet Archive version here]
Extensive primary sources
- WEB World War II - Documents 1940-45 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
Extensive primary sources
- WEB Documents of World War II [Was At Mt.
Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- WEB GHDI: German Military and War Documents of World War II [At GHDI] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Nazi and East German Propaganda [Was At Calvin, now Internet Archive]
- Adolf Hitler: The Obersalzberg Speech 22 Aug 1939 [At this
Site]
- Franco-German Armistice June 25, 1940 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): Address at Charlottesville 1940 [At USInfo] [Internet Archive version here]
Roosevelt rebuts isolationism and promised to aid Britain against Germany.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): America, the Arsenal
of Democracy [At this Site]
- US Declarations of War with Japan, Germany and Italy Dec 1941 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Atlantic Charter 1941 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Vyacheslav Molotov (1889-1986): Broadcast Speech on the
Invasion of The Soviet Union June 22, 1941 [At this Site]
- Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau: The Ideological Mission of the German Army in the Soviet Union October 1941 [Was at H-Net, now Internet Archive]
- German Surrender Documents of
World War II May 8, 1945 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Home Front
- Winston S. Churchill, "We
Shall Fight on the Beaches" - Speech to the House of Commons, June 4 1940 [At
Hanover]
- Winston S. Churchill, "Blood, Toil, Tears and
Sweat" Speech, 1940 [At this Site]
- Winston S. Churchill: "Their Finest Hour",
To the House of Commons, 18 June 1940 [At this Site]
- British Songs of World War II [At this Site]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): The Four Freedoms,
from his message to Congress given on January 6, 1941 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or Full Text of Speech [Internet Archive]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): 'A Call
for Sacrifice', 28 April, 1942 [At this Site]
The speech indicates the tremendous increase in governmental power, and control over the
economy, needed to fight the war.
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War In Asia
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After the War
- WEB Nuremberg War Crimes Trial [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB International Military Tribunal
for the Far East [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- YouTube: Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz commandant, testifying at the Nuremberg trial, April 15, 1946
- Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.: Nuremberg--A Fair Trial? Dangerous Precedent, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1946 [Was At The
Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
Wyzanski voiced concerns about the hazards of attempting to administer international
justice in a vacuum. After the trial had run its course, he wrote Nuremberg in Retrospect, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1946 on the exemplary manner in
which the trial had been conducted.
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