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Hitler & Nazi Party
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi Leadership at the Camp 
 This presentation looks at photographs from an album donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007; the album "almost certainly belonged to and was created by [a German SS officer] ... stationed at Auschwitz from May 1944 until the evacuation of the [World War II Nazi concentration] camp in January 1945." Provides photos from the album, background about the officer, essays, archivist interview, and related material. From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/ Topics: Judaism, World War II Last updated Dec 3, 2007 The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
A collection of documents relating to the charges against Nazi organizations and individuals, brought before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in October 1945, following the end of World War II. Includes documents such as the indictment, testimony of witnesses, the charter of the IMT, the Nuremberg code, documents cited in the record, and reports. From the Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman at Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm Topics: Crime, World War II Last updated Nov 22, 2005 Debunking Hitler: Marking the Site of the Führer's Bunker
June 2006 news article about the unveiling of an information panel that marks the location of the Berlin bunker where Adolph Hitler killed himself near the end of World War II. Also includes an interactive guide to Hitler's bunker and links to related material about World War II and the Holocaust. In English and German. From the website for the German newspaper Der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,420483,00.html Topics: World War II Last updated Oct 29, 2007 Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
Companion to a traveling exhibit about book burning activities in Nazi Germany. Topics include the immediate American response, how "books figured prominently" in U.S. patriotic slogans during World War II, and later symbols of book burning. Features written and audio material about 58 authors whose works were burned. Authors include Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Jack London, Karl Marx, and Upton Sinclair. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/bookburning/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Social Issues, World War II Last updated Sep 10, 2007 Hunting Nazi Criminals; Operation: Last Chance
Transcript of a 2005 interview with Efraim Zuroff ("widely known as the last Nazi hunter") about a program launched in 2002 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel and the Targum Shlishi Foundation "to help facilitate the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, primarily in post-Communist Europe." Topics include local complicity, rehabilitation, local government reactions, and legal challenges. From the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-37.htm Topics: Judaism, World War II Last updated Dec 6, 2007 In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945
"The Nazi Propaganda period, 1933 to 1945, chronicles a crucial twelve years in American history. This exhibit's story about the local threat to American ideals demonstrates how European events reached across the ocean and affected people in Southern California -- in our own backyard." Features essays and digitized items on topics such as anti-Semitism, the German American Bund, and "Hollywood Under Attack." From Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge. http://digital-library.csun.edu/backyard/ Topics: World War II Last updated Feb 23, 2009 Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms
"On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany's Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass') for the shattered store windowpanes." This site features an exhibition with a historical overview and details about what was destroyed. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/ Topics: Judaism, World War II Last updated Oct 6, 2009 NARA Interagency Working Group: The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
In 1999 "in accordance with the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act ... President Clinton established the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG). The group is ... directed to locate, inventory, recommend for declassification, and make available all classified Nazi war criminal records ... to the public." This site provides extensive finding aids to documents from various government agencies, bibliographies, glossaries, Holocaust timelines, and related documents. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://archives.gov/iwg/ Topics: Crime, Military, Notable People, World War II Last updated Jun 1, 2006 The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy
This exhibit focuses on the International Military Tribunal trials of World War II war criminals held in Nuremberg, Germany, starting in 1945. Features a photo collection, images of artifacts (such as the tribunal program), audio clips relating to testimony, and associated material. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/warcrimetrials/comment_post.php Topics: Crime, World War II Last updated Jun 9, 2008 Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection
The Nuremberg Trials "were a series of 13 trials of accused World War II German war criminals held from 1945 to 1949 in Nuremberg, Germany." This site presents a searchable collection of documents from the Nuremberg Trials collection of Harvard Law School Library. Most Web site material relates "to the Medical Case, which was Case 1 of the NMT [Nuremberg Military Tribunals] trials." Also includes "Who Was Who in Nazi Germany" and related resources. http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/ Topics: Crime, Judicial Process, Military, World War II Last updated Aug 23, 2004 Paris Marks Liberation From Nazis
This 2004 article describes how "thousands of Parisians ... marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Paris in World War II." Includes links to related articles on topics such as how French police officers launched the Paris uprising on August 15, 1944, and an "On This Day" account for August 25, 1944 (the date of the liberation). From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3596776.stm Topics: History By Place, World War II Last updated Aug 15, 2007 Propaganda
Website companion to the 2009 exhibition "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda," which "reveals how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany." Includes a timeline, information about the themes used in Nazi propaganda, a gallery of propaganda examples, and resources for further study. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ Topics: World War II Last updated Mar 5, 2009 The Rape of Europa
Companion to a documentary that "tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. ... [It] begins and ends with the story of artist Gustav Klimt's famed Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938 and now the most expensive painting ever sold." Includes photo galleries of materials relating to the thefts and rescue operations. http://therapeofeuropa.com/ Topics: Wars & Conflicts, World War II Last updated Aug 15, 2007 |
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