Primary Documents relating to World War II

Updated April 14, 2007

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
The Avalon Project: World War II Documents
  Documents For The Study Of American History - check out the sections on "Between the Wars" as well as the WWII section.
  HyperWar: Diplomatic and Political Documents of WWII 
  The British Bluebook
  French Yellow Book Table of Contents and Preface 
  Government Publications from WWII 
  Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  The Speeches of Winston Churchill 
  Quotes - Winston Churchill  
  Conferences of WWII
   The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II
    The Avalon Project: A Decade of American Foreign Policy 1941-1949 
Military Resources: World War II 
  Paperless Archives World War II 
  Rutgers Oral History Archives of WW-II 
   The United States Navy in WWII: Primary Source Documents
  Washington Conferences (1921 - 1922) 
The Geneva Protocol of 1925 
  Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy: 1933-39 (extracts) 
Roerich Pact: Protection of Artistic & Scientific Institutions & Historical Monuments, 1935
German-Japanese Agreement and Supplementary Protocol, Signed at Berlin, Nov. 1936
THE NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1937
U.S. Historical Documents Archive -- The Neutrality Act of 1937
Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt: Quarantine the Aggressor, 1937
The Avalon Project: The Munich Agreement - Documents
The Avalon Project : Munich Pact 9/29/38
Neville Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time
  Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U.S.S.R. August 23, 1939 
The Avalon Project: Germany's Invasion of Poland
   The Avalon Project: Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941 
The Avalon Project: Franco-German Armistice : June 25, 1940 
   The Avalon Project: Summary of the Three-Power Pact Between Germany, Italy, and Japan, Sept. 1940
  Speeches by FDR: The Arsenal of Democracy, 1940 
The Avalon Project: Tripartite Pact and Associated Documents
    The Avalon Project: The British Bluebook
    FDR, The "Four Freedoms" Address to Congress, Jan. 6, 1941
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms
The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" speech before Congress, Dec. 8
   Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the President on Pearl Harbor 
The Avalon Project: Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany, & Italy
  The Avalon Project: The Washington Conference 1941-1942 
WRA Exhibit -- Text of Executive Order No. 9066 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, February 19, 1942 - authorizing Japanese Internment Camps.  More info on Internment Camps in America can be found HERE.
   Master Lend-Lease Agreement, February 23, 1942
    The Quebec Conference between FDR and Churchill(Aug. 17-24, 1943)
CASABLANCA CONFERENCE, Feb. 12, 1943
  CASABLANCA CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUÉ
CAIRO CONFERENCE, November 1943  
  FDR: The 'Fala' Speech, 1944 
  PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945 
ASSUMPTION OF POWER BY DOENITZ, MAY 1, 1945
The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945
German Surrender Documents of WWII 
   PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Japanese Surrender Documents
The Japanese Surrender Document 
Emperor Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender 
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(European War)
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(Pacific War)
  The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources
   Featured Document: The Marshall Plan 
  Marshall Plan Folders 
  Records and Research Relating to Holocaust-Era Assets - more primary documents on the Holocaust available on my  Hitler and Holocaust pages.
The International Military Tribunal(Nuremberg)
  NARA: War Crimes
  "Name Files" released in response to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act 
  TIME Magazine: World War II Archive Collection 
  Historic Government Publications from World War II
  From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Congress)
 

SOUNDS, FILMS, IMAGES & PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE WAR
Cinemocracy - propaganda for the war effort: Free Movies Download & Streaming
  Virtual Radio - World War II Multimedia Database - part of Welcome to the World War II Multimedia Database
  World War II Photo / Contact Gallery 
  Historic Government Publications from World War II
  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum: Photos of World War II 
  Generally Speaking-S/Sgt Bill Heller - Photos 
  Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page 
  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page 
  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Hitler 
  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Germany in WWII 
  A Day in Radio - September 21, 1939 
  Radio Broadcasts 1939-1943
   Picturing the Century : A World in Flames 
  Images - WWII Nurses in Movietone Newsreels
  Picturing the Century : Post War America 
  World War II Timeline pictures 
  WWII artwork of Ed Pranger 
  World War I & II Pictures, Posters 
  TIME Magazine: World War II Archive Collection 
  Images - WWII Nurses in Movietone Newsreels
  Films from the Home Front
    Military-WWII-Nazi-Soviet-Propaganda Videos-International Historic Films
  World War II Videos - Allies, German Footage, Propaganda Film.
 


For
info on propaganda posters, images, art, music, and films of the war, check my Main WWII Propaganda, Images, Art page.

For Personal diaries, journals, accounts, and letters, check out my WWII Diaries & Journals page.


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