About the Book
This is a collection of papers, documents and extracts from primary sources relating to the interwar period and World War II. Contents include extracts from speeches by Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, reports from war correspondents and extracts of works by Priestly, de Beauvoir and Grass.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS PART1: I.1: France, Germany and the UK, industrial disputes 1914-39; I.2: Number of seats won and percentage of votes in (a) German 'Reichstag, 1918-33; (b) French 'Chambre de Deputes, 1902-36; (c) British House of Commons, 1918-45; I.3: Summary of governments of (a) Germany, 1919-32 (b) France, 1918-40 (c) Britain, 1919-39; I.4: 'Rech' cost of living index, Feb.1920-Dec. 1923; I.5: Wages, prices and real earnings, Great Britain 1913-38; I.6: Unemployment in Germany, Britain and France 1919-1939; I.7: Josef Stalin, 'The tasks of business executives' speech delivered to the First All-Union Conference of Managers of Socialist Industry (4 Feb. 1931); I.8: Gaetano Salvemini, 'How the dictatorship arose' (1928); I.9: Benito Mussolini, extracts from 'The doctrine of Fascism'; I.10: Extracts from Royal decree concerning Fascist youth organisations (9 Jan. 1927); I.11: Report of the American Consul in Leipzig (21 Nov. 1938); I.12: Adolf Hitler, 'Memorandum on the Four-Year-Plan' (Aug. 1936); I.13: Anatoli Lunacharsky, 'The tasks of the state cinema in the RSFSR' (1919); I.14: Pavel Partov-Bytov, ' We have no Soviet cinema' (21 April 1929); I.15: Adolf Hitler, speech from the 'Twilight Rally' sequence of 'Triumph of the will' (1935); I.16: John Reith, 'The best of everything' (1924); I.17: John Reith, on the BBC's coverage of the General Strike, May 1926 (15 May 1926); I.18: Parliamentary discussion on censorship and restriction of liberty (7 Dec. 1938); I.19: Extracts from the reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the Ovservations of the German Delegation on the Conditions of Peace (16 June 1919); I.20: Jan Smuts, letter to Lloyd George (26 March 1919); I.21: German 'Day of Mourning' (from our own correspondent), Berlin, 28 June 1929; I.22: Adlof Hitler, extracts from 'Mein Kampf' (1925); I.23: Extracts from the Hossbach Memorandum (Nov. 1937); I.24: Adolf Hitler, speech to the 'Reichstag' (7 March 1936); I.25: R.Barrington-Ward, editorial in The Times (9 March 1936); I.26: Eric Dunstan, commentary to 'The Rhine' (12 March 1936); I.27: Neville Chamberlain, extract from a speech to House of Commons (24 March 1938); PART II: II.1: General oberst Franz Halder, affidavit at Nurnberg (22 Nov. 1945); II.2 'Order concerning the exercise of martial jurisdiction and procedure in the area "Barbaroosa" and the special military measures' (13 may 1941); II.3: 'Top secret: supplement to Order No. 33' (23 July 1941); II.4: Milovan Djilas, extract from 'wartime' (1977); II.5: 'The Atlantic Charter', joint statement by President of the United States and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1941); II.6: Josef Stalin, extract from speech to the Moscow Soviet and representatives of Moscow Party and public organizations on the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution (6 Nov. 1942); II.7: 'The Crimea Declaration: a statement issued by the Prime Minister, President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at Yalta' (12 Feb. 1945); II.8: from the Reports on Germany, SOPADE (Social Democrats in Exile) (Dec. 1938); II.9: From a report by the Heilbrunn Gendarmerie station (26 Nov.1938); II.10: From the monthly report of the Regierungsprsident of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate (8 Dec. 1938); II.11: Heinrich Himmler's speech to 'Gauleiter' in Posen, Poland (6 Nov. 1943); II.12 Extract from the report bu the police president of Hamburg on the raids on Hamburg in July and August 1943); II.13: Sybil Bannister, extracts from' I lived under Hilter' (1957); II.14: Wages and the cost of living in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Serbia c. 1910-1955; II.15: Interview with residence worker (M.Pestourie) by Dr.H.R. Kedward (24 June 1969); II.16: : Interview with residence worker (M Chauliac) by Dr.H.R. Kedward (20 Sept. 1970); II.17: : Interview with residence worker (M Malafosse) by Dr.H.R. Kedward (20 Sept. 1970); II.18: 'Programme of the CNR (Conseil National de la Resistance)' (15 March 1944); II.19: Poster by Committee of Action for the Union of the Italian People (Oct. 1942); II.20: 'L'unita' report on strike of 100,000 Turin workers (15 March 1943); II.21: Statement issued by Field Marshal Rommel (23 Sept. 1943); II.22: 'Pravda' report on factory moved from the Ukrane to the Urals (18 Sept. 1942); II.23: Letter from Supreme Commander of the People's Liberation Partisan Detachments (Tito) to the Command of the Italian Troops of Occupation in Prijepolje (15 Dec. 1941); II.24: Extracts from The Potsdam Agreement (2 Aug. 1945); II.25: Extracts from the Beveridge Report (1942); II.26: Orders issued by General Lemelsen, Commander 48th Panzer Corps (June 1942); II.27: Germans in industrial labour force 1939-44; II.28: Simone de Beauvoir, extracts from 'The Second Sex' (1949); II.29: Gunter Grass, extract from 'The Tin Drum' (1959); II.30: 'Vecors' (Jean Bruller), extract from 'Le Silence de la Mer' (1942); II.31: Louis Aragon, 'I salute you, my France' and 'Tears are alike'; II.32 An average French town in 1950: leisure activites an Auxerre (pop.24,000) (1950); II.33: Security Service (SD) reports from the 'Reich' on the public reaction to films (1941); II.34: Extract from commentary to 'Der Ewige Jude' (1940); II.35: Commentary to the film 'London (Britain) Can Take It' (1940); II.36: J.B. Priestly, extracts from his radio talks, 'Postscripts (1940); II.37: Richard Dimbleby, war report (19 April 1945); II.38: Joseph Goebbels, 'total war' speech from 'Deutsche Wochenschau' (27 Feb. 1943); II.39: Transcript of commentary to film 'Your Job in Germany' (1945); II.40: Transcript of commentary to film ' A Defeated People' (1946); II.41: Two commentaries: (a) Welt im Fim, Issue No. 7 (29 June 1945); (b) Weltim Film - die Welt Blickt auf Berlin (June 1948); II.42: The Long Telegram of 22 February 1946; II.43: Top Secret 'aide-memoire' on Greece (21 Feb. 1947); II.44: Top Secret 'aide-memoire' on Turkey (21 feb. 1947); II.45: 'memorandum by the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs on the impending European Crisis' (27 May 1947); II.46: Secretary of State George C Marshall, 'The Marshall Plan' (5 June 1947); II.47: Andrei Zhdanov, 'Report on the international situation, at the Founding Conference of the Communist Information Bureau in Poland' (Sept. 1947); II.48: Extract from Gunter Grass,' Writing after Auschwitz' (1990); II.49: Alfred Doblin, 'schicksalreise' (Journey of Fate) (1949); II.50: Statement by Brian Hubert Robinson (Feb. 1949); II.51: German Economic Commission, ' Announcement of the impending establishment of the German Democratic Republic (21 Sept. 1949); II.52: Konrad Adenauer, speech marking the final stage in the setting up of the German Federal Republic (21 Feb. 1949); II.53: Government of the German Democratic Republic, 'Statement regardsing the Berin riots' (21 Feb. 1953); II.54: P.N. Durnovo, memorandum to the Tsar (Feb.1914)
