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Geneva Prisoner of War Convention (1929)
Best of History Web Sites : World War II
The History Place - World War II in Europe
Prisoner of War from Infoplease.com Encyclopedia
Geneva Conventions Reference Website
POW Research including a map of the various Stalags
World War II Day by Day
By A. Shaw,Anthony Shaw,Antony ShawOverview of World War II from 1939 to 1945 presented in a "day by day" format with numerous photos.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By William L. ShirerNo other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters -- all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.
Here is the complete story of Hitler's empire, one of the most important stories ever told, written by one of the men best equipped to write it.
Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story
By Arthur A. DurandStalag Luft III is the camp most commonly associated with the Allied prisoner of war experience in World War II Germany. Housing mainly British and American flyers, it was the historical setting for the movie The Great Escape. As with most Hollywood treatments, however, the film blurred the line between fact and fiction. In Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story, Arthur A. Durand offers the first comprehensive historical examination of what camp life was actually like, from the mundane drudgery of the prisoners' daily lives to their harrowing struggle for survival against an enemy responsible for the deaths of millions. Relying on coded records kept by appointed camp historians, as well as personal interviews, letters, logs, diaries, and recently declassified government documents, Durand combines scholarship with dramatic narrative.
The Buchenwald Report
By David A. HackettIn the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated in western Germany was Buchenwald, on April 11, 1945. Within days, a special team of German-speaking intelligence officers from the U.S. Army was dispatched to Buchenwald to interview the prisoners there. In the short time available to them before the inmates' final release from the camp, this team was to prepare a report to be used against the Nazis in future war crimes trials. Nowhere else was such a systematic effort made to talk with prisoners and record their firsthand knowledge of the daily life, structure, and functioning of a concentration camp. The result was an important and unique document, The Buchenwald Report. Shockingly, not long after the war ended The Buchenwald Report was almost lost forever. Only selected portions were entered as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. Professor Eugen Kogon, a prisoner at Buchenwald who assisted the Army specialists in conducting their interviews and writing the report, made use of the material gathered as a background source for his classic book, The Theory and Practice of Hell, but subsequently his copy was accidently destroyed. Thus the complete report was never published, and both the original document and a precious handful of copies gradually disappeared. Recently - more than four decades later - a single, faded carbon copy was discovered, apparently the only one still in existence. It is translated from German and presented here in book form, as its authors intended, for the first time.
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The Second World War - a complete hstory
By Martin GilbertIt began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day - August 14, 1945 - it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of forty million people.
Now, in one brilliant volume, eminent historian Martin Gilbert offers the complete history of the Second World War. With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert, the official biography of Winston Churchhill as well as one of the leading experts on the Holocaust, weaves together political, military, diplomatic, and civilian elements to provide a global perspective on the war, creating a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping, dramatic narrative.
Page One - The Front Page history of World War II as presented in The New York Times
The powerful immediacy of witnessing world-shaping events as they happen is captured in this exciting collection of front page stories from The New York Times.
Sweeping from Germany's invasion of Poland to the ecstatic banner headlines announcing the surrender of Japan, these are the front page items that kept the nation and the world informed.
Page One: The Front Page History of World War II is an impressive, permanent chronicle of the banner days during the years that forever changed the face of our civilization. This powerful reminder that we should "never forget" gathers all the front page news of the most destructive war in history, a war that brought a world to the brink of self-destruction.
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Mein Kampf
By Adolf Hitler,Ralph Manheim (Translator)Translated by Ralph Manheim with a new introduction by John Lukacs. A compilation of Hitler's most famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of National Socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich.
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Mein Kampf online - from Sun Site Northern Europe (Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, UK)
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