Register of the World War II subject collection
Finding aid prepared by Linda Bernard
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 1998, 2017
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
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Title: World War II subject collection
Date (inclusive): 1939-2004
Collection Number: XX740
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In various languages
Physical Description:
99 manuscript boxes, 4 card file boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 10 videotape cassettes, 2 phonorecords, memorabilia
(40.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Leaflets, pamphlets, proclamations, clippings, propaganda, manuals, other printed matter, letters, reports, memoranda, maps,
memorabilia, and miscellany relating to military operations and home front conditions in many countries during World War II,
including material on military occupations, prisoners of war, and forced labor. Also includes material on resistance movements
in various countries, especially France.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in various years.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], World War II subject collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Leaflets, pamphlets, proclamations, clippings, propaganda, manuals, other printed matter, letters, reports, memoranda, maps,
memorabilia, and miscellany relating to military operations and home front conditions in many countries during World War II,
including material on military occupations, prisoners of war, and forced labor. Also includes material on resistance movements
in various countries, especially France.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
Video tapes
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements
World War, 1939-1945 -- France
Sound recordings
Prisoners of war
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor
World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories
World War, 1939-1945
Subject File
1936-1994
Scope and Contents note
Biographical notes, broadsides, brochures, bulletins, cartoons, correspondence, diaries, flyers, forms, handbooks, identification
papers, instructions, leaflets, lists, manuals, maps, memoirs, memoranda, newsletters, official documents, orders, pamphlets,
photographs, postcards, posters, press releases, proclamations, propaganda, ration cards, regulations, reports, rosters, serial
issues, studies, underground literature, writings, clippings and other printed matter, and miscellany, arranged alphabetically
by country and then by subject or physical form.
box 49
Censorship
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Envelopes opened by the censor addressed to the Hoover Library, Stanford, California.
box 46
Churches
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets relating to the attitude of the Churches vis-a-vis fascism and nazism.
box 47
Civilian relief
1944
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet issued by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, entitled
UNRRA: Organization, Aims and Progress.
box 57
Commemorations
1994
Scope and Contents note
Programs, booklets, pamphlets, brochures, serial issues, and memorabilia relating to the commemorations of the fiftieth anniversaries
of the D-Day landings in Normandy and of the Battle of the Bulge.
box 48
Origins of the war
1937-1938
1940-1955
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets relating to the origins of the war. Includes a compilation of documents from the period 1937-1938. In English and
Polish.
box 46
Conferences
1942 December 18
Scope and Contents note
Proceedings of the Round Table Conference "Germany's Thirty Years' War" held at the Savoy Hotel, London.
box 48
Governments-in-exile
1942-1943
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet by Edward Puacz relating to various exiled governments and pamphlets issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace relating to European governments-in-exile.
box 46
General,
Justice for the Jews and
The Jews in the Family of Nations
1943
box 53
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
1941-1943
box 53
World Jewish Congress
1943-1944
box 48
Military operations
1945
Scope and Contents note
Chart of operations in the European Theater.
box 1
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 2
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 3
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 4
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 45
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 50
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 51
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 52
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, and reports, in a variety of languages, distributed by the Allied Forces in Europe, Asia, and the Arab
world.
box 4
French propaganda leaflets (in German), including a pamphlet by Hermann Rauschning denouncing Hitler; and British air raid
leaflets (in English, French and German) dropped by the R.A.F., as well as other leaflets relating to the paper salvage campaign
in Great Britain
box 47
American pamphlet issued by the U.S. Office of War Information entitled
Modern Leaflet Bombing
1945
box 43
Printing plate used for leaflets dropped on Japanese cities several days ahead of bombing, advising citizens to evacuate
box 5
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Mostly German propaganda, in various languages, distributed in Europe and Asia. Includes one issue of
Front und Heimat (German soldier's newspaper).
box 6
General
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Mostly German propaganda, in various languages, distributed in Europe and Asia. Includes one issue of
Front und Heimat (German soldier's newspaper).
box 48
Pamphlets issued by the German authorities in Poland
1940-1942
Language of Material: Polish.
box 6
Leaflet distributed after the Japanese Army landed in Indonesia
1942
Language of Material: Chinese.
box 53
General
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, brochures, and speeches, including on world organization and world peace. Includes Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi,
"Peace Aims as War Weapons," Martha Jelenko,
Post-War Reconstruction: Major Programs and Opinions, and Wm. Reitmann,
Lasting World Peace and Total World-Disarmament on a Divine-Angelic Basis. Also includes a report by the Women's Employment Federation on post-war opportunities for women.
box 53
Europe
1955-1957
Scope and Contents note
Clippings by Paul van Zeeland and others relating to his activities to secure European peace and union. Includes an undated
typescript on his wartime activities and the book jacket for
Paul van Zeeland au service de son temps.
box 53
Refugees
1946
Scope and Contents note
Williams, Pierce, "Preliminary Summary of Report on Refugees and Displaced Persons: An Urgent United Nations Problem."
box 46
Trade unions
1943
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet published by the Mutual Defense League containing a speech and articles by Isidore Nagler relating to the role of
labor in the struggle against fascism and the problems facing the international trade union movement.
box 1
General
1941-1948
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, ordinances, and other printed matter relating to various aspects of World War II and its aftermath, and
reports (in German and in English) relating mainly to resistance activities in German-occupied Europe.
box 44
General
1941-1948
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, ordinances, and other printed matter relating to various aspects of World War II and its aftermath, and
reports (in German and in English) relating mainly to resistance activities in German-occupied Europe.
box 46
Anti-fascist poem by Eolo Montevideo
1944
Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian.
box 46
Austria
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet published by Freiheit fur Osterreich, entitled
Austria's Freedom Front: Manifesto of the Austrian Underground Movement.
box 6
Balkan Peninsula
1941-1944
Scope and Contents note
Studies, reports, handbooks, maps, photographs, diagrams, and printed matter relating to the political, economic, social,
and military conditions in the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Yugoslavia) and to the location of strategic power
plants and industries in Yugoslavia. Includes two intelligence reports on the Cetnik and partisan resistance movements in
Yugoslavia prepared for the Allied Military headquarters, Balkans, and one folder of photocopies of underground literature
(in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian) relating to resistance activities in Yugoslavia during World War II. Includes declassified
records returned to file after February 2016 release by Hoover.
box 101
Balkan Peninsula
1941-1944
Scope and Contents note
Studies, reports, handbooks, maps, photographs, diagrams, and printed matter relating to the political, economic, social,
and military conditions in the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Yugoslavia) and to the location of strategic power
plants and industries in Yugoslavia. Includes two intelligence reports on the Cetnik and partisan resistance movements in
Yugoslavia prepared for the Allied Military headquarters, Balkans, and one folder of photocopies of underground literature
(in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian) relating to resistance activities in Yugoslavia during World War II. Includes declassified
records returned to file after February 2016 release by Hoover.
box 46
General
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet issued by the Belgian Information Center relating to the escape of two Belgian air officers to Great Britain by airplane
and to conditions in Belgium.
box 7
1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets, posters, proclamations, press releases, underground literature, writings, and clippings. In French, Flemish, and
English.
box 8
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Proclamations and miscellany relating to the resistance movement in German-occupied Belgium during World War II and to the
entry of Allied troops into Brussels in September 1944. In French, Flemish, and German.
box 45
Burma Campaign, Japanese account
Language of Material: Japanese.
box 48
Burma Road
1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet relating to the Burma Road through the China-Burma-India Theater.
box 48
Occupation of Rangoon by the Imperial Japanese Army
circa 1942
Language of Material: Chinese.
Scope and Contents note
Propaganda-style flyer announcing the "annihilation" of the American, British, Chinese and Dutch forces. Typed English translation
is provided.
box 46
General
1943
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet issued by Inter-Allied Publications, entitled
Unknown Country: The Story of Czechoslovakia.
box 8
Underground movements
circa 1944, 1945
Scope and Contents note
Two leaflets (mimeographed in Czech) issued by the resistance movement in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, and a translation
(printed) of a clandestine Czech resistance pamphlet, entitled
Svejk in the Protectorate.
box 8
General
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets relating to the resistance movement in German-occupied Denmark during World War II and to the post-war reconstruction
of Denmark.
box 53
Conditions
1942 May - 1944 May
Scope and Contents note
Issues of
The Danish Listening Post put out by the National America Denmark Association.
box 8
General
1942-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, and miscellany. Includes both pro-Vichy and pro-resistance propaganda, blank forms for
travel permit requests used in German-occupied France, and a few post-war political items. In French and German.
box 46
General
1942-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, and miscellany. Includes both pro-Vichy and pro-resistance propaganda, blank forms for
travel permit requests used in German-occupied France, and a few post-war political items. In French and German.
box 9
Refugees
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and memoranda relating to the transportation of Spanish refugees in the vicinity of Toulouse to Germany for
forced labor.
box 9
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
Scope and Contents note
Underground materials, including memoranda, instructions, orders, reports, letters, maps, charts, clandestine newspapers,
bulletins, and leaflets, distributed by various resistance groups. Boxes 17-19 contain duplicates.
box 10
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 11
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 12
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 13
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 14
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 15
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 16
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 17
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 18
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 19
Resistance
1940-1945
Language of Material: French.
box 19
General
1934-1950
Language of Material: German.
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, maps, manuals, and bulletins relating to Germany's participation in World War II and to
its post-war status. Includes a few pre-war items relating to German fascism.
box 19
Administration of justice
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous lists, notes, and statistics relating to the administration of justice by German occupation authorities in the
Netherlands during World War II. In German and Dutch.
box 46
General
undated
Scope and Contents note
Handbook describing the economic status and rights of the German soldier.
box 22
Soldier's diary
1944 May-September
Scope and Contents note
Holograph diary of an unidentified German soldier.
box 54
General
1940 May - 1941 June
Scope and Contents note
Issues of
News Flashes from Germany.
box 19
Extracts from letters written by an unidentified anti-Nazi German
1940
box 46
Pamphlet by Erik Erikson, entitled
Herrn Thomas Mann, relating to Thomas Mann and conditions in Germany during the war
undated
Forced labor
1936-1945
Scope and Contents note
Reports, memoranda, regulations, and miscellany relating to the importation and supervision of foreign workers in Germany
during World War II. Includes some miscellaneous material relating to the structure of the Hitlerjugend and other Nazi organizations,
and to Nazi racial ideology and historical and cultural outlook. See also: oversize Hitler Youth hierarchy diagram in map
case.
box 48
Foreign policy
1942
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet relating to German foreign policy from Otto von Bismarck to Adolf Hitler.
box 22
Prisoners of war
1946
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typescript memoir authored by an unidentified German prisoner of war. Relates to conditions of imprisonment
of German prisoners of war in Russia during World War II.
box 48
Rearmament
1942
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet relating to Germany's secret air rearmament from 1919 to 1933.
box 53
Reconstruction
1945
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets relating to prospects for democracy in post-war Germany and to industrial disarmament of aggressor states.
box 48
General
1944
undated
Scope and Contents note
Flyers and pamphlets relating to resistance among the German people.
box 46
National Committee "Free Germany,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet by Siegbert Kahn relating to the Committee's activities, particularly its radio broadcasts to the German people.
box 22
Rote Kapelle
Scope and Contents note
Biographical notes relating to members of the German anti-Nazi resistance movement.
box 48
General
1941-1944
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, correspondence, and clippings relating to war crimes committed in various German-occupied European countries and
to Allied demands for reparations. In English and Polish.
box 46
Nuremberg Trial
1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet by Stephen Gorski relating to German war crimes and the Nuremberg Trial.
box 23
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 24
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 25
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 26
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 27
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 28
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 29
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 30
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 31
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 32
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 33
General
1938-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, serial issues, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and posters relating to British politics, conditions in
Great Britain during World War II, war aims, civil defense, the wartime economy, and post-war reconstruction. Includes issuances
of various groups in Great Britain during the war.
box 46
Armed Forces
undated
Language of Material: Portuguese.
Scope and Contents note
Brochure relating to coastal defense operations by the British Air Force.
box 46
Civil defense
1942
Scope and Contents note
Manual, entitled
We Shall Fight in the Streets! Guide to Street Fighting.
box 47
Prisoners of war
1945?
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet issued by the Allied Forces 21st Army Group entitled
Guidance in Making Arrangements for Liberated British Prisoners of War.
box 54
General
1941
Scope and Contents note
The American Friends of Greece,
Greece 1821-1941.
box 54
Conditions
1942 May - 1946 July
Scope and Contents note
Issues of the
Greek War Relief Newsletter, put out by the Greek War Relief Association.
box 48
German occupation
1942
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet relating to war crimes committed in Greece by Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria.
box 34
Resistance
1941-1946
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets and pamphlets relating to the Greek resistance movement.
box 34
Hungary
1945
Language of Material: Hungarian.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph diary of an unidentified Hungarian soldier.
box 54
General
Scope and Contents note
In Italian and English. Includes George A. Tesoro,
The Bankruptcy of Fascist Economy through the Eyes of Italian Economists (1943).
box 54
Conditions
1944 February-August
Scope and Contents note
Issues of
Facts from Italy, put out by the Committee for a Democratic Foreign Policy.
box 34
Simoni, Simone
1944
Scope and Contents note
Clippings from Italian newspapers relating to the execution of S. Simoni, Italian Army General, by German occupation troops
in Italy.
box 46
Issue of
Cronache della regione Lombardia, relating to underground movements in Lombardy
1974 September-October
Language of Material: Italian.
box 46
Four leaflets urging Italians and Romans in particular to rise against fascism and the German occupation
1944
Language of Material: Italian.
box 43
Armed Forces
Scope and Contents note
Daily duty roster for some unidentified Japanese garrison quartered in an unknown location. Entries run from February 1 to
16.
box 34
Diplomatic history
1941 December 8
Scope and Contents note
Printed translation of the Japanese declaration of war on the U.S. and Great Britain.
box 34
Press
Scope and Contents note
Translations of articles from Japanese newspapers relating to world political, military, and diplomatic affairs during the
first years of World War II.
box 34
Prisoners and prisons
1942
Scope and Contents note
Proclamation issued by Japanese naval officials and relating to regulations for civilian prisoners of war captured at Wake
Island and being transported from the island on Japanese naval vessels.
box 101
War economy
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Declassified records returned to file after February 2016 release by Hoover. Consists of two reports: "The Japanese Occupation
Technique in the Field of Money and Banking," Foreign Economic Administration, Liberated Areas Branch, February 1944; and
"Japan's War Economy, 1943-1944," Foreign Economic Administration, Special Areas Branch, Far East Enemy Division, February
1945. Also stamped Far Eastern Civil Affairs Training School at Stanford University.
box 101
Korea
1945 April 17
Scope and Contents note
Declassified records returned to file after February 2016 release by Hoover. Consists of a report, "Summary Industrial Survey
of Korea," Foreign Economic Administration, Enemy Branch, Japanese Special Services Staff. Also stamped Far Eastern Civil
Affairs Training School at Stanford University.
box 54
Latin America
circa 1939-1942
Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian.
Scope and Contents note
Mainly pro-Allied propaganda, especially from Mexico.
box 34
Miscellaneous memorabilia, satirical postcards, proclamations, and press clippings
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Relates to the course of World War II in the Netherlands, including the German occupation, Allied propaganda, Dutch press
coverage of the war, the liberation of Amsterdam on May 5, 1945, and photocopies of Dutch underground literature (in Dutch).
box 34
Forced labor
1942
Scope and Contents note
Three letters from Dutch workers transported to Germany for forced labor relating to working conditions in Germany.
box 34
General
1940-1945
Scope and Contents note
Proclamations, identification cards, registration forms and miscellany, issued by the German occupation authorities in the
Netherlands, relating to regulations of the Dutch civilian population during World War II. In Dutch and German.
box 34
Administration of justice (see: Germany)
box 34
Liberation
Scope and Contents note
Proclamations issued by the Dutch and Allied military authorities relating to the entry of Allied troops into the Netherlands
in 1945.
box 34
Prisoners of war
Language of Material: Dutch; Flemish.
Scope and Contents note
Summaries of reports relating to the transportation of 2000 Dutch officers from the Netherlands to a prison camp in Germany
in May 1942 and to living conditions in the camp.
box 34
Underground movements,
1944-1945
Language of Material: Dutch; Flemish.
Scope and Contents note
Flyers, leaflets, proclamations, and newsletters.
box 34
General
1939-1943
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of letters to the editor of the
San Francisco News, written by William Moler-Loswick and relating mainly to Norway during World War II.
box 34
Underground movements
circa 1940-1945
Scope and Contents note
Propaganda leaflets distributed by the resistance movement in German-occupied Norway during World War II. In German and Norwegian.
box 35
Philippines
undated
Scope and Contents note
Photostats of reports, memoranda, letters, and orders pertaining to the guerrilla warfare of Chinese volunteers in the Philippines
against the Japanese during World War II. In English and Chinese.
box 36
General
1942-1943
Scope and Contents note
Clippings from American daily newspapers and from Yiddish newspapers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and
South Africa relating to German atrocities in occupied Poland, persecution and extermination of Jews, activities of Polish
emigre groups, and the case of Victor Alter and Henryk Erlich. In English and Yiddish.
box 54
Army
1941 December
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets urging Poles in the Soviet Union to join the Anders Army.
box 48
German occupation
1940-1944
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets relating to conditions in occupied Poland, German atrocities, the persecution and extermination of Jews, the Polish
underground army and various resistance groups, and the Warsaw Uprising.
box 37
Underground movements
1939-1944
Scope and Contents note
Proclamations, underground literature, other printed matter, and charts relating to events and conditions in German-occupied
Poland, especially to Polish resistance movements. In English, Polish, and German.
box 44
Romania
1945
Scope and Contents note
One book illustrated with photographs depicting the air battle of Ploesti (1944 April 5 - August 19).
box 37
General
1941
Scope and Contents note
Proclamations relating to regulations imposed upon the civilian population by the German occupation authorities. In German,
Russian, and Ukrainian.
box 48
Ukraine
1984
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet relating to the invasion, occupation, and ultimate liberation of Ukraine in 1944.
box 46
Spain
1946 April 17
Scope and Contents note
Printed statement by Oscar Lange, Polish ambassador and delegate for Poland to the United Nations Security Council, at the
meeting of the Security Council in New York.
box 54
General
1940-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets and newsletters relating to economic and social conditions in the United States and to the American government.
Includes proceedings of the Eighth Pan American Child Congress, Washington, D.C., 1942 May 2-9.
box 55
General
1940-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets and newsletters relating to economic and social conditions in the United States and to the American government.
Includes proceedings of the Eighth Pan American Child Congress, Washington, D.C., 1942 May 2-9.
box 56
General
1940-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets and newsletters relating to economic and social conditions in the United States and to the American government.
Includes proceedings of the Eighth Pan American Child Congress, Washington, D.C., 1942 May 2-9.
box 56
African-Americans
1943-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, conference proceedings, and newsletters. Includes issuances of the Congress of Racial Equality and the National
Urban League.
box 39
General
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, including manuals and guidebooks issued by the U.S. Army and Navy, and pamphlets and guidebooks relating to
the U.S. Armed Forces issued by commercial publishers during World War II. Includes manuals, handbooks, and regulations issued
by the War Department, and a report on radar capabilities released by the joint Board on Scientific Information Policy.
box 40
General
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, including manuals and guidebooks issued by the U.S. Army and Navy, and pamphlets and guidebooks relating to
the U.S. Armed Forces issued by commercial publishers during World War II. Includes manuals, handbooks, and regulations issued
by the War Department, and a report on radar capabilities released by the joint Board on Scientific Information Policy.
box 41
General
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, including manuals and guidebooks issued by the U.S. Army and Navy, and pamphlets and guidebooks relating to
the U.S. Armed Forces issued by commercial publishers during World War II. Includes manuals, handbooks, and regulations issued
by the War Department, and a report on radar capabilities released by the joint Board on Scientific Information Policy.
box 46
General
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, including manuals and guidebooks issued by the U.S. Army and Navy, and pamphlets and guidebooks relating to
the U.S. Armed Forces issued by commercial publishers during World War II. Includes manuals, handbooks, and regulations issued
by the War Department, and a report on radar capabilities released by the joint Board on Scientific Information Policy.
box 104
General
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, including manuals and guidebooks issued by the U.S. Army and Navy, and pamphlets and guidebooks relating to
the U.S. Armed Forces issued by commercial publishers during World War II. Includes manuals, handbooks, and regulations issued
by the War Department, and a report on radar capabilities released by the joint Board on Scientific Information Policy.
box 48
Air Force
1943, 1991
Scope and Contents note
Booklet, entitled
Target Germany: The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe; and booklet relating to the Air Force's report on the special bombing missions over Japan, 1945 July 20 - August 14. In
English and Japanese.
box 43
Navy
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Communications and printed matter relating to the end of World War II in the Pacific. Includes an admission ticket to the
San Francisco plenary session of the United Nations Conference on World Organization.
box 46
Foreign-born Americans
circa 1943, undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprinting two speeches delivered at the Tenth Anniversary National Conference of the American Committee for Protection
of Foreign Born, New York, 1943 October 30-31, relating to the contribution of foreign-born Americans to the war effort; and
a pamphlet relating to Americans of German descent.
box 56
General
1941 April 7
Scope and Contents note
Speech by Ernest W. Gibson, "Should Our Ships Convoy Arms to Britain?"
box 42
Neutrality
1940-1942
Scope and Contents note
Speeches and leaflets relating to American neutrality. Includes a broadside reproducing a leaflet (printed) mailed by B. K.
Wheeler, U.S. Senator from Montana, urging U.S. neutrality in World War II, and letters (typewritten) in reply from two soldiers
who received copies of the leaflet; and a speech by Robert S. Field.
box 56
Neutrality
1940-1942
Scope and Contents note
Speeches and leaflets relating to American neutrality. Includes a broadside reproducing a leaflet (printed) mailed by B. K.
Wheeler, U.S. Senator from Montana, urging U.S. neutrality in World War II, and letters (typewritten) in reply from two soldiers
who received copies of the leaflet; and a speech by Robert S. Field.
box 56
Post-war period
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets relating to plans for post-war economic conversion and social adjustment.
box 42
Prisoner of war camps
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
Reports, press releases, lists, and miscellany relating to conditions in prisoner of war camps in the U.S. during World War
II and to the exchange of U.S. and Axis civilian nationals in captivity.
box 38
Miscellany
1941-1946, 1965
Scope and Contents note
Relates to U.S. military activities and civil defense during World War II, including manuals, servicemen's newspaper issues,
bulletins, newsletters, leaflets, letters to and from American soldiers, and a mimeographed transcript of an NBC television
program,
The Decision to Drop the Bomb.
box 44
Miscellany
1941-1946, 1965
Scope and Contents note
Relates to U.S. military activities and civil defense during World War II, including manuals, servicemen's newspaper issues,
bulletins, newsletters, leaflets, letters to and from American soldiers, and a mimeographed transcript of an NBC television
program,
The Decision to Drop the Bomb.
box 42
Yugoslavia
1945
Scope and Contents note
Mimeographed typescript of the agreement between the Yugoslav government and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration relating to the provision of civilian relief in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II.
Oversize File
circa 1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Charts, maps, and photocopies of instruments of surrender.
drawer mc12
Hitler Youth hierarchy diagram (originally housed in box 22)
drawer mc12
62 colored charts and maps
Scope and Contents note
Issued by the Comite d'Histoire de la 2eme Guerre Mondiale, concerning occupied France and illustrating the suffering of people
and the actions of the resistance groups in France.
drawer mc12
Photocopies of the instrument of surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers
1945 September 2
drawer mc12
18 maps outlining Allied and Axis positions in various parts of the world, mainly in Western Europe
1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes a few post-war maps.
Memorabilia
circa 1939-1945
Scope and Contents note
Military insignia, pair of horse's spectacles, pin, and office stamp.
memorabilia_cabinet
Japanese military insignia for the ranks of major general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, and major in the Japanese Army
memorabilia_cabinet
Pair of horse's spectacles
Scope and Contents note
Made in Luettringhausen concentration camp near Remscheid, Germany, by inmates in solitary confinement, during World War II.
These spectacles were evidently used by General Rommel's horses in his North Africa offensive.
memorabilia_cabinet
1 pin and 1 office stamp from the Nazi occupation government of Norway
Sound Recordings
1941
1944
Scope and Contents note
Sound discs relating to the Burma Road and to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
record cabinet
Burma Road radio news broadcast relating to the re-opening of the Burma Road
1944
record cabinet
Sound recording of interviews with Americans in various parts of the U.S. on the evening war with Japan was declared, relating
to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 December 8
Access note
Use copy reference number: xx740_a_0002800
Scope and Contents note
Includes transcript.
Incremental Materials
Scope and Contents note
This addition to the collection has not yet been described. Please let the Hoover Institution Library & Archives know if you
would like to see this material described. Contact us at
hooverarchivesinfo@stanford.edu
box 102
Armband embroidered with "F.F.I.," Forces Francais de l'Interieur
box 44
Resistance
Scope and Contents note
Anti-Nazi cartoons by various Soviet artists. Captions in Russian and English.
box 103
Material not yet described
box 105
Office of Strategic Services, "Native Craft in Southeast Asia Waters"
Scope and Contents
Three volumes
box 106
Prisoner letter from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Scope and Contents
Prisoner letter from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from Franz Szymanski to his wife in Lublin in Nazi-occupied Poland.
