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[Britain] BBC History - World War Two
Sections include: Articles ; WWII Timeline ; WW2 People's War ; Multimedia Zone ; For Kids.
[Canada] Archives of Ontario
- The Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Front
"We are remembering the contribution of Ontario, its citizens and all Canadian soldiers on that day by exploring how the Home Front supported the war effort through the recruitment and training of soldiers, the production of arms and raising the financial resources needed to pay for it all."
Sections include: Joining Up ; Fund Raising and Volunteerism ; Military Training in Ontario ; Wartime Production ; Sources and Additional Information.
[Canada] National Defence Canada - History and Heritage Publications
- Second World War as a National Experience - (dead link) [.pdf]
Edited by Sidney Aster, 1981.
Publisher: The Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, Ottawa.
[Canada] Canadian War Museum
[Canada] National Library and Archives of Canada
- Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
"Welcome to the War Records-Manufacturing (WRM) series of photographs. On this website you will find images of black and white photographs taken during the Second World War by the Wartime Information Board, whose photographic operations were later transferred to the National Film Board. This series spans seven years, from 1939 to 1945, and documents the roles of Canadian civilians in the Second World War industrial effort.
Color Photographs from the FSA [Farm Security Administration] and OWI [Office of War Information] Home Page
"The FSA color photographs depict life in the U.S., including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor...[the OWI] depicted life and culture in the U.S., with a focus on factories and women employees, railroads, aviation training, and other aspects of World War II mobilization."
- American Memory, The Library of Congress
Conscience and the Constitution
"In World War II, a handful of young Americans refused to be drafted from an American concentration camp. They were ready to fight for their country, but not before the government restored their rights as U.S. citizens and released their families from camp. It was a classic example of civil disobedience -- but the government prosecuted them as criminals and Japanese American leaders and veterans ostracized them as traitors. CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION delves into the heart of the Japanese American conscience and a controversy that continues today. Experience the choice faced by any group when confronted by mass injustice -- whether to comply or to resist."
PBS Online
Dr. Seuss Went to War:
A Catalog of Political Cartoons By Dr. Seuss
400 political cartoons by Theodor Seuss Geisel penned from 1941-1943 in the New York newspaper PM.
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
Enemy Property
"This site contains summary details of some 30,000 records held at the Public Record Office relating to property in the United Kingdom seized between 1939 and 1945 from commercial organisations and individuals resident in countries with which the United Kingdom was at war."
Fathom - Perspectives on World War II
George Washington University - National Security Archive
Historic Government Publications From World War II - A Digital Library
First phase in the creation of a online database of government publications from WWII.
- Southern Methodist University
HyperWar
A Hypertext History of the Second World War
"...a collection of material related to the, primarily military, history of the Second World War, completely cross-referenced via hypertext links and enhanced, where appropriate, by various multi-media computer technologies, such as sound, movies, Java applets, etc...The source of the material presented here is almost exclusively U.S. Government produced, -- and therefor U.S.-oriented."
By Patrick Clancey
International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
The Nizkor Project
Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (German or English)
Die deutschen Strafverfahren wegen nationalsozialistischer Tˆtungsverbrechen, 1945-1999.
[Nazi Crimes on Trial : German Trials Concerning Nationalist Socialist Homicidal Crimes, 1945-1999]
English version in progress.
Compiled at the Institute of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam
Lost Art Internet Database
"...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("L‰nder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."
Military Sexual Slavery by Japanese Soldiers
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943)
"consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues - (dead link) and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941. These recording projects were supported by the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center). Song lists made by the collectors, correspondence with the Archive about the trips, and a special issue of the Fort Valley State College student newsletter, The Peachite: Festival Number, are also included. One interesting feature of this collection is the topical rewording of several standard gospel songs to address the wartime concerns of the performers."
Many songs address the impact of WW2 on the African American community.
American Memory Project, Library of Congress
Nanjing Massacre
Japanese Imperialsim and the Massacre in Nanjing
An English Translation of a Classified Chinese Document on the Nanjing Massacre.
By Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, & Cha Ruizhan. Translation from Chinese into English by Robert Gray.
National Academy Press (free online versions)
National Geographic - Untold Stories of D-Day
"Step into the world of writers and photographers as they tell you about the best, worst, and quirkiest places and adventures they encountered in the field."
Include: Did You Know ; Related Links ; Bibliography ; NGS Resources.
Nazi and East German Propaganda - Guide Page
"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access to the primary material."
Maintained by Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College
Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
"...to provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)... There are currently 9908 objects from 92 participating museums listed in the Portal."
- American Association of Museums
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The International Military Tribunal for Germany
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946.
"Trial against H.W. Gˆring, R. Hess, J. von Ribbentrop, R. Ley, W. Keitel, E. Kaltenbrunner, A. Rosenberg, H. Frank, W. Frick, J. Streicher, W. Funk, H. Schacht, G. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, K. Dˆnitz, E. Raeder, B. von Schirach, F. Sauckel, A. Jodl, M. Bormann, F. von Papen, A. Seyss- Inquart, A. Speer, C. von Neurath, and H. Fritzsche, individually and as members of any groups or organizations to which they belonged."
"The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German ... The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language..."
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Oral History Archives of WW-II
"The project intends to publish these interviews in several media, including hypertext format on the history.rutgers.edu server. Available now, in the latter format, are the following in-depth interviews conducted by Dr. Piehler and his colleagues."
New Brunswick History Department
PBS - The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (February 2003)
Website companion to the TV broadcast
"Witness World War II through rare color film, and read letters from a nation redefining itself."
Sections include: The Battlefield ; Psychology of War ; The Home Front ; Social Aspects ; View WW II Timeline ; Rediscovering the Film ; Preserving Our History ; Special Features ; Teacher's Guide.
A People at War
"This exhibit highlights the contributions of the thousands of Americans, both military and civilian, who served their country during World War II. Documents from the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis form the core of the exhibit."
Truman Presidential Library Digital Archives
Part of Project Whistlestop
United State Holocaust Museum
- Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945 - (dead link)
"This Web site chronicles crimes committed during the Holocaust in Croatia and highlights artifacts from the Jasenovac Memorial Area Collection."
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
"A project in partnership with the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Audio from the collections of the Marr Sound Archives, Dept. of Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri, Kansas City."
War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
"This Exhibit features images from approximately forty photographs taken for the War Relocation Authority and vividly depicts life in Arizona's two camps."
University of Arizona Library's Special Collection
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II
Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters during World War II
Working for Armament in World War II: Forces Labour in Hagen 1939-1945 /
Arbeiten f¸r die Kriegsr¸stung im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Zwangsarbeit in Hagen 1939
- 1945
"The Historical Centre Hagen attempts to call the destiny of the forced workers, slave labourers and POWs back to mind with this website and to create a regional information portal for public discussion. At the same time, a list of sites of camps and prisons in the present district of Hagen is offered, which can be explored with a search engine. A district map contains lists of firms and camps in the Hagen suburbs. A list of source material and the digital editions of original documents will be use in academic and scholar teaching."
In English and German
World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion
"This online exhibit features 33 posters and 1 sound file from a more extensive exhibit that was presented in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, from May 1994 to February 1995. Like the original, this exhibit is divided into two parts, which represent two psychological approaches used in rallying public support for the war."
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