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Assignment to Berlin

by Harry W. Flannery. 442 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Harry W. Flannery

Publisher:

   A.A. Knopf

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1942
Subjects:   World War, 1939-1945--Germany, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
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1.
This Is England: British Film and the People's War, 1939-1945
Book by Neil Rattigan; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001
Subjects: Motion Pictures--Great Britain--History--20th Cventury, World War, 1939-1945--Motion Pictures And The War
...references and index. ISBN 0-8386-3862-7 (alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939-1945-Motion pictures and the war. 2. Motion pictures-Great Britain-History-20th...in 1939 when the British gov- ernment declared war upon Germany, Britain was a class-based so- ciety, and that the rigid...
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After Leningrad: From the Caucasus to the Rhine, August 9, 1942-March 25, 1945: a Diary of Survival during World War II
Book by Elena Skrjabina, Norman Luxenburg; Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
Subjects: Refugees--Soviet Union--Diaries, Skriabina, Elena--1906---Diaries, Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Russian, World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union
...1942 to the arrival of the Americans in the Rhineland in 1945. This account, together with the previous part, was published...interesting account, "Coming of Age in Revolution, Civil War, and Terror." My translation of that work is now virtually...perspective, however, we must go back to the time just preceding World War II. In late August, 1939, as war clouds were darkening over Europe, the world was astounded by the news that the Soviet Union and Hitlerite Germany had signed a nonaggression pact. This was all the more remarkable...
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We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War
Book by Lewis H. Carlson; Basic Books, 1997
Subjects: Oral History, Prisoners Of War--Germany, Prisoners Of War--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, German, World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners And Prisons, American, World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners And Prisons, German
...American. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. 3. Prisoners of war-- United States. 4. Prisoners of war--Germany. 5. World War, 1939-1945-- Personal narratives, American. 6. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives...
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Franco: Silent Ally in World War II
Book by Willard L. Beaulac; Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
Subjects: Franco, Francisco--1892-1975, Germany--Foreign Relations--Spain, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Spain, Spain--Foreign Relations--Germany, Spain--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, Spain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Spain, World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic History, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...Foreign relations--Germany. 3. Germany-- Foreign relations--Spain...Willard Leon, 1899- . 9. World War, 1939-1945-- Personal narratives, American...partners opponent. When World War II broke out, Franco found...of secret agreements with Germany. On September 3, 1939, two days after Hitlers...
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Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War
Book by David E. Cane, Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith, Lawrence Cane; Fordham University Press, 2003
Subjects: Cane, Lawrence--1912-1976--Correspondence, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Veterans--United States--Correspondence, United States--Army--Officers--Correspondence, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...Correspondence. 4. United States. Army-Oflicers- Correspondence. 5. World War, 1939-1945-Campaigns- Western Front. I. Cane, David E., 1944- II...Siegfried Line and the Battle of the Bulge: 129 Fighting in Germany and Belgium September 15, 1944-January 26, 1945 6...
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Soviet Women Soldiers in World War II: Three Biographical Sketches
Journal article by Kazimiera J. Cottam; Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, 2000
Subjects: Air pilots--Personal narratives, Heroes--History, Women soldiers--Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945--Personalities
...Sovetskaya Ukraina v gody Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny, 1941-1945. Kiev, 1980, Document #225, pp. 284-86. "Pesn nepokorennykh...about the combat experiences of Soviet women during the Second World War. Her books include On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner (1997) and Women in War and Resistance (1998), from which her article is taken. In...
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Romanian Voices of the Second World War: Remembrance and Repression
Journal article by Gavin Bowd; East European Quarterly, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Eastern front (World War II)--Records and correspondence, Romania--History, Romania--Records and correspondence, World War II, 1939-1945
...exploits: being hit but landing safely, the strange beauties of war:</p> Autumn was beautiful, it was not cold in the daytime...Although 40 years have now passed since the end of the Second World War, there is not one official or unofficial work in the...Romania (Mss 828, 1). As for membership of the Axis, Hitlerist Germany was the only great power who, in 1941, could guarantee the...of War Veterans on the Path of Honour and Sacrifice (1941-1945). This work attempts to be comprehensive in its panorama...Editura Ziua, 2003), p. 219. (7.) See Tragedia Romaniei 1939-1947 (Bucharest: Pro Istoria, 2004). (8.) See Andrew Hussey...
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Apologies for Atrocities: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of World War II's End in the United States and Japan
Journal article by Kyoko Kishimoto; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: World War II, 1939-1945--History
...War in Japanese High School History Textbooks from 1945 to 1995 (Thesis, University of San Francisco, 1999...twenties and thirties) where they learned about World War II and most said that they learned about Japans...1995, p. 25). (54) Dower, "Triumphal and Tragic Narratives," Journal of American History, 1131. (55) Nozaki Yoshiko and Inokuchi...Language, and War in Two Cultures," The War in American Culture, 169-201. (85) Dower, "Victors Justice...Justice," in Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (W.W. Norton amp; Company/The New Press, 1999), 443-484. (86) P. 258, note 4 in Dower, "Three Narratives of Our Humanity," History Wars, 63-96; pp. 239240...McCormack, "Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945-1995," in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (An...
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Father, Forgive
Journal article by Kosuke Koyama; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 47, 1995
Subjects: Conversion--Personal narratives, Forgiveness--Moral and ethical aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
...Forgive me and my enemies, for we know not what we do." Up to 1945 The Christian theology of a sovereign creator God who is...1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations. The Japanese war against China began in July 1937. In September 1940, Japan entered into the Tripartite Alliance with Germany and Italy. In December 1941 the Japanese air force attacked...that "the Japanese people are the best people in the whole world". For the first three days after her unconditional surrender...
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The German Army at War, 1939-1945
Journal article by Samuel J. Newland; Parameters, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Armed Forces--Evaluation, Armed forces--Evaluation, Armies--Germany, Germany--Military aspects, Hitler, Adolf--Behavior, International relations--History, Military art and science--Evaluation, Military science--Evaluation, World War II, 1939-1945--Media coverage
The German Army at War, 1939-1945. by SAMUEL J. NEWLAND Almost from the time the guns fell silent in Europe on 8 May 1945, the world in general and the western world in particular has studied the German army of World War II, and its impressive warmaking potential, with a special...more lethal forces, the interest in both National Socialist Germany and the World War II German army continues unabated. We still...
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The End of World War II in Europe
Magazine article by Francis Russell; National Review, Vol. 37, May 31, 1985
Subjects: Europe--History, European history, World War II, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
The End of World War II in Europe. by Francis Russell...General Hospital near London. April 29, 1945 The last agony of Germany plays itself out ad I am not there...the years, the radio pounds out the American AEF programs, the same turns, the same...symphony to announce Hitlers death. May 7, 1945 I am out on the terrace. Behind me...and Mother said, "England has declared war," and began to cry. May 9, 1945 The...
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Dresden Plus 93 Days
Magazine article by Dick Sheehy; History Today, Vol. 45, May 1995
Subjects: Bombings--History, Dresden, Germany--Bombings, Prisoners of war--Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British
...life later as an escapee on the road in Germany, coming across the French, Russians and...Reich disintegrated in the spring of 1945. My experiences in Dresden have largely...row of poplars overlooked by a 1914-18 war memorial. When we returned to the camp...the bombing, we lived in a closed-in world. Even then we did not hear of the fireball...pair of blue eyes I had last seen in 1939. Dick Sheehy is a retired Works Study...He joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1939 and was subsequently a Commando in Palestine...
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Easter Sunday, 1944: Escape to Berlin
Magazine article by Paul Baumann; Commonweal, Vol. 120, June 4, 1993
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
...money, and plenty of luck they were able to survive. As the war continued and the eventual German defeat and Soviet conquest...my father-in-law said excitedly. "What Jew would go back to Germany? You dont go in a lions den." But on Easter Sunday in 1944...they were hidden until finally rescued by British forces in 1945. I asked if in looking back on their decision to return...after the war.... There is a tendency among all people in the world - people are cruel, not just the Germans. The easy thing is...
4.
Remember, Not to Forget: Reflections
Magazine article by Max Edelman; The Humanist, Vol. 55, May-June 1995
Subjects: Americans--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Social aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
...maniacal Nazi machine in Germany are nearly over. On June...David and remarked, "The world must never forget why they...blinded during the Second World War." For the life of me, I could...on the other. On April 23, 1945, the eighth day of our march, units of the American Third Army caught up with...experiences. On May 8, 1995, the world will observe the fiftieth...rationale to others. Like that American veteran who, on the fiftieth...of D-Day, called upon the world not to forget those who lost...
5.
Wrestling with God: A Personal Meditation
Magazine article by Jurgen Moltmann; The Christian Century, Vol. 114, August 13, 1997
Subjects: Prisoners of war--Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German
...Fritz Valentin returned to Hamburg from his English exile in 1945 (he was president of the provincial court, a convinced Christian...came with fear and trembling. What were we to say about the war crimes, and the mass murders in the concentration camps? But...sing with young Christians who had come from all over the world, even from Australia and New Zealand. In the night my eyes...young Germans were supposed to be "re-educated" for a better Germany. But in reality it was a generous gift of reconciliation offered...
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BOOK REVIEWS: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies, Macmillan, Pounds 25
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 27, 2007
BOOK REVIEWS: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies...has turned his attention to the Second World War and his target is the western-centric...book called The Great War and Modern Germany (Modern Memory, Norman!), Geoffrey Lawrence...of what is, quite rightly, called a World War (with more justification than that of...
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VE DAY: The Agony and the Ecstasy; for Many Children in 1945, the End of World War II Brought to a Close Years of Separation from Their Parents and the Chance to Return Home Caroline Gammell Reports
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 7, 2005
VE DAY: The Agony and the Ecstasy; for Many Children in 1945, the End of World War II Brought to a Close Years of Separation from Their Parents...got the radio on and heard that the war was won and that Germany had surrendered. Mother and son took the bus to the Londons...instructions. Below, June Potts nee Bryant with her brother Tony in 1939 when they were among thousands of evacuees
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They Helped 'Save a Generation'
Newspaper article by Matthew Cella; The Washington Times, May 28, 2001
Subjects: Maryland, World War, 1939-1945
...were 62 troopers drafted in the Second World War, and that left about 160 troopers to...of Elkridge became a state trooper in 1939 and served as a first lieutenant with...volunteered for a bombing mission over Germany as a waist gunner in 1943. His plane...killed in a house-to-house fight in 1945 in Luxembourg. The assembly took place...A. Kirkpatrick, who also served in World War II, gave the keynote address. "A lot...
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WWII Vets File Memories
Newspaper article by Ronald J. Hansen; The Washington Times, May 25, 1998
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
...Ronald J. Hansen Patrick ODonnell realized years ago that World War II paratrooper veterans were a treasure trove of history and...Annandale resident William Katzenstein tells of his flight from Germany as a young Jew and his return to Europe to battle the Nazis...landing in Japan as part of the American occupying force in 1945. "Im very surprised. Of all the people weve talked to...
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WWII Vets Seek a Memorial
Newspaper article by Arlo Wagner; The Washington Times, September 16, 2000
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
...memorial by Arlo Wagner World War II veterans placed a wreath on the Mall...fighting through France and Belgium into Germany. "We were 50 kilometers from Berlin...were stopped," Mr. Farin recalled. American troops were stopped to allow Russian troops to conquer the German capital. The war in Europe ended soon afterward. Dorothy...years ago, she revisited some of her World War II locations in Europe. "Theres...
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World War II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...peace settlements (1919 20) following World War I . After World War I, defeated Germany, disappointed Italy, and ambitious Japan were anxious to...conquered (1935 36) Ethiopia for Italy; and from 1936 to 1939 the Spanish civil war raged, with Germany and Italy helping...Balkan Peninsula, the Germans resisted in Hungary until Feb., 1945, but Germany itself was pressed. The Russians entered East...
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Germany
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...Germany and its allies (see Central Powers ) in World War I (1914 18). In 1909, von Bethmann-Hollweg had replaced von Bulow as chancellor of Germany; Bethmann was overthrown (1917) by Field Marshal Paul von...economically and politically by 1929, but soon afterward the world economic depression brought about mass unemployment and business...Germany in the hope that Hitler had limited aims. In Mar., 1939, Germany marched into Czechoslovakia, thus violating the...thousands were deported to Germany for forced labor. By early 1945, Germany was being invaded from the west and the east, and...
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Air Forces
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...forces in Italy in 1859 and by Union forces in the U.S. Civil War. Balloons thereafter proved useful as a means of observation, but air forces in the modern sense date from World War I, when the offensive capabilities of the airplane were...that engaged in aerial combat and bombing raids. Although Germany took the lead in air strategy, the Allies soon closed the...of Strategic Bombing (1982); R. J. Overy, The Air War, 1939 1945 (1984); M. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power (1987...
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Goebbels, Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Socialist propagandist. He was kept out of the service in World War I by a clubfoot. After graduating from the Univ. of Heidelberg...worked with Gregor Strasser, who controlled the party in N Germany. As the split between Hitler and Strasser developed, he switched...power. He remained loyal to Hitler until the end; in Apr., 1945, he killed his family and himself while Berlin was falling...Secret Conferences of Dr. Goebbels: The Nazi Propaganda War, 1939 43, ed. by W. A. Boelcke (tr. 1970); biographies by R. Manvell...
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United Nations
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...international organization established immediately after World War II. It replaced the League of Nations . In 1945, when the UN was founded, there were 51 members; 192 nations...Cultural Organization , the Universal Postal Union , the World Health Organization , the World Intellectual Property Organization...negotiations on the eventual restructuring of the council. Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, and South Africa have sought permanent seats...begun under the aegis of the U.S. State Department late in 1939. The name United Nations was coined by President Franklin...
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