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GERMAN HOME FRONT, WWII
A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources
CONTENTS General Sources.....p.1 Specific Locales…..p.2 Special Aspects -Air Attacks.....p.3 -Economic Conditions.....p.4 -Hitler Youth…..p.6 -Labor/Manpower…..p.7 -Media Activities…..p.8 -Organization Todt.....p.8 -Social Conditions…..p.8
GENERAL SOURCES
Beck, Earl R. Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945. Lexington, KY: U KY, 1986. 252 p. D757.B42.
Bernadotte, Folke. Last Days of the Reich: The Diary of Count Folke Bernadotte, October 1944- May 1945. London: Frontline, 2009. 160 p. D809.S8.B473.
Caestecker, Frank, & Moore, Bob, editors. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States. NY: Berghahn Books, 2010. 346 p. HV640.5.J4.R43.
Charman, Terry. The German Home Front, 1939-45. NY: Philosophical Library, 1989. 232 p. DD256.4.C547. Profusely illustrated.
Fritzsche, Peter. Life and Death in the Third Reich. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2009. 368 p. DD256.5.F74.
Junge, Traudl. Hitler’s Last Secretary: A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler. [Edited by Melissa Müller; translation of Bis zur Letzten Stunde: Hitlers Sekretärin erzählt ihr Leben by Anthea Bell] NY: Arcade, 2011. 261 p. D811.5.J76. German Home Front, WWII p.2
Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45. NY: Penguin, 2011. 564 p. D757.K47.
Mauch, Christof. “Dream of a Miracle War: The OSS and Germany, 1942-1945.” Prologue (Summer 1995): pp. 135-42. Per.
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), editor. Germany and the Second World War. [Translation of Das Deutsche Reiche und der Zweite Weltkreig] NY: Oxford, 1990. D757.D39813.
Seydewitz, Max. Civil Life in Wartime Germany: The Story of the Home Front. NY: Viking, 1945. 448 p. DD256.S4913. Authored by exiled member of the Reichstag.
Taylor, Blaine. Hitler’s Engineers: Fritz Todt and Albert Speer, Master Builders of the Third Reich. Philadelphia, PA: Casemate, 2010. 272 p. DD247.T63.T39.
Tubach, Frederic C. German Voices: Memories of Life during Hitler’s Third Reich. Berkeley, CA: U CA, 2011. 273 p. DD256.6.T83.
U.S. Army Air Forces. Committee of Historians. "Germany's War Potential, Dec 1943: An Appraisal by the Committee of Historians for the CG, AAF." Typescript revision 18 Jan 1944. 54 p. D757.G46. Much comparison w/ WWI situation.
See also: -Papers of William J. Donovan, Arch.
SPECIFIC LOCALES
Baxter, Ian. Wolf’s Lair: Inside Hitler’s East Prussian HQ. Gloucestershire, England: History Press, 2009. 158 p. D757.B39.
Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War. NY: Basic Books, 2010. 432 p. D757.9.B4.M65.
Black, Monica A. “The Meaning of Death and the Making of Three Berlins: A History, 1933-1961.” PhD dss, U VA, 2006. 383 p. HQ1073.5.G32.B47.
Bucholtz, Helen H. American Hamburger: An American Girl in Nazi Germany. Fayetteville, NC: Old Mountain, 2000. 132 p. D811.5.B83.
Hamann, Brigitte. Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth. [Translation of Winifred Wagner oder Hitler’s Bayreuth by Alan Bance] Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005. 582 p. DD247.W5.H3513. German Home Front, WWII p.3
Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945. [Translated by Martin Chalmers] NY: Random House, 1999. 556 p. D810.J4.K54. Assimilated German Jew, who lived in Dresden with his “Aryan” wife; chronicles city’s firebombing, their escape to Bavaria, and liberation by Allied troops.
Saft, Ulrich. Krieg in der Heimat: Bis zum Bitteren Ende im Harz. Walsrode, Germany: Militärbuchverlag Saft, 1996. 406 p. D811.A2.S24.
Wolff-Mönckberg, Mathilde. On the Other Side: To My Children, from Germany 1940-1945. [Edited and translated Ruth Evans] NY: Mayflower Books, 1979. 172 p. D811.5W6513. Letters from resident of Hamburg.
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Air Attacks
Bardua, Heinz. Göppingen, 1. März 1945, 14.28 Uhr: Momentaufnahme aus einem Konventionellen Luftkrieg. Göppingen, Germany: Herausgeber und Verfasser, 1985. ca. 50 p. D756.5.G66.B37.
Foedrowitz, Michael. “Air Raid Shelters in Hannover.” After the Battle (No. 124): pp. 2-25. Per.
Great Britain. British Bombing Survey. Report on the Effects of Strategic Air Attacks on German Towns. England, Nov 1946? 95 p. D786.B74.
Groehler, Olaf. "The Strategic Air War and Its Impact on the German Civilian Population." Conduct of the Air War.... NY: Oxford, 1992. pp. 279-97. D785.I58.
Held, Werner, & Nauroth, Holger, compilers. The Defense of the Reich: Hitler’s Nightfighter Planes and Pilots. [Translation of Die Deutsche Nachtjagd by David Roberts] NY: Arco, 1982. 230 p. D787.D4713.
McKee, Alexander. Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox. NY: Dutton, 1984. 334 p. D757.9.D7.M34. Account drawn chiefly from eye-witnesses.
National Fire Protection Association. Fire and the Air War. Boston: NFPA, 1946. 261 p. UG780.F57. See Chaps 5-8.
Schmidle, Adolf. ”Civil Air Defense Organization-Warning System-Construction of Shelters-Fire Fighting-Medical Aid-Recovery of Bodies-Care and Evacuation of Victims.” USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1952. 4 p. D739.F6713noP-009b. Based upon experiences in defending Rhine-Westphalia industrial area.
Stanford Research Institute. World War II German Fire Document Translations. Menlo Park, CA: SRI, 1967. 87 p. D787.S75. Describes general content of several WWII German documents on war- caused fires. German Home Front, WWII p.4
U.S. Navy Dept. Off, Chief Naval Operations. The Economic Consequences of Aerial Bombardment in the European Theater, WWII. Study, Operational Evaluation Group, Apr 1948. 12 p. D785E26.
U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Director of Intelligence. Impact of American Air Power on the German War Machine. Study, Jan 1945. 35 p., 4 foldouts. D790.I46.
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Reports. 324 vols. Wash, DC, 1944-47. D785.U6. Divided into European (216 vols.) and Pacific (108 vols.). See separate guide.
Westermann, Edward S. “’Sword in the Heavens’: German Ground-Based Air Defenses, 1919-1945.” PhD dss, U NC-Chapel Hill, 2000. 569 p. UG735.G3.W47.
See also: -Bibliographies on Air-WWII and US Strategic Bombing Survey, D785U6.
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Economic Conditions
Aly, Götz. Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State. [Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase] NY: Metropolitan, 2006. 431 p. DD256.5.A5913.
Bertram, Gerd. Handwerk im Krieg. Leipzig. Lutzeyer, 1944. 98 p. HD234.G3.B46. Status of German trades.
Borkin, Joseph, & Welsh, Charles A. Germany's Master Plan: The Story of Industrial Offensive. NY: Duell, 1943. 339 p. HD2721.B6. Combined efforts of technology, government and industry.
Carroll, Berniece A. Design for Total War: Arms and Economics in the Third Reich. The Hague: Mouton, 1968. 311 p. HC286.4.C3.
Collenberg, Kurt von. "Plan for Industrial Mobilization." USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1951. D739.F6713noP-081. Ministry of Armaments and War Production to 1942.
Decken, S. Eberhard von der. Die Front Gegen den Hunger. Berlin: Englehard, 1944. 175 p. HD9013.5.D35. Food administration.
Dorman, James R., Jr. "Hitler's Economic Mobilization." Military Review (Nov 1953): pp. 46-53. Per.
"German Underground Installations." Military Review (Jun 1948): pp. 56-62. Per. German Home Front, WWII p.5
Goralski, Robert, & Freeburg, Russell W. Oil & War: How the Deadly Struggle for Fuel in WWII Meant Victory or Defeat. NY: Morrow, 1987. 384 p. D810.F83.G67. Petroleum perspective.
Graham, Frank Dunstone. Economic Preparation and Conduct of War Under the Nazi Regime. Wash, DC: War Dept Historical Division, 1946. 53 p. HC286.4.G7.
_____, & Scanlon, J. J. "Economic Preparation and Conduct of War Under the Nazi Regime." Study, War Department Historical Division, 10 Apr 1946. 53 p. HC286.4.G7.
Great Britain. Chiefs of Staff Committee. Oil As a Factor in the German War Effort, 1933-45. London, Mar 1946. 145 p., foldouts. HD9573.5.O34.
Homze, Edward L. Arming the Luftwaffe: The Reich Air Ministry and the German Aircraft Industry, 1919-39. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 1976. 296 p. HD9711.G32.H65.
Jeffreys, Diarmuid. Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine. NY: Metropolitan Books, 2008. 485 p. D804.G43.I334.
Klein, Burton H. Germany's Economic Preparations for War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1959. 272 p. HC286.4.K53.
Mierzejewski, Alfred C. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-45: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 1988. 285 p. HC286.4.M53.
Milward, Alan S. The German Economy at War. London: Athlone, 1965. 214 p. HC286.4.M44.
Nathan, Otto. The Nazi Economic System: Germany's Mobilization for War. Durham, NC: Duke, 1944. 378 p. HC286.3.N37.
Neufeld, Michael J. "Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority, 1939-43." Journal of Military History (Jul 1993): pp. 511-38. Per.
Overy, R. J. War and Economy in the Third Reich. NY: Oxford, 1994. 390 p. HC286.3.O94.
Robert, Karl. Hitler's Counterfeit Reich: Behind the Scenes of Nazi Economy. NY: Alliance, 1941. 122 p. HC286.4.R62.
Rudrow, Robert G., Jr. "The Probable Effects of Radioactive Fallout on Germany's World War II Economy." US Army Chemical Corps School, student paper 1962. 42 p. U167.432.R82.
Sasuly, Richard. IG Farben. NY: Boni & Gaer, 1947. 312 p. HD9654.9.I5.S3.
Schweitzer, Arthur. Big Business in the Third Reich. Bloomington, IN: IN U, 1964. 739 p. HC286.3.S463. German Home Front, WWII p.6
Skogstad, Anna. Petroleum Industry of Germany during the War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1950. 42 p. D810.F83.S56.
Smith, Arthur L., Jr. Hitler's Gold: The Story of the Nazi War Loot. NY: Berg, 1989. 174 p. D810.D6.S64. Scholarly study of the economics of monetary gold, WWII.
Strenger, A.D. "Insight into the Nazi Industrial War Machine, With Ideas and Suggestions Relating to Occupation, Chances of Germany's Inside Collapse, Prevention of Germany's Rearmament and the Post War Period." Text of a speech to be delivered by author, 1943. 91 p. HC286.4.S74.
Sweezy, Maxine Y. The Structure of the Nazi Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1941. 255 p. HC286.3.S83.
Turner, Henry A., Jr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe’s Biggest Carmaker. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2005. 200 p. HD9710.G32.T87.
U.S. Board of Economic Warfare. "Selective Bibliography on Nazi Economic Techniques." n.p., 1943. 38 p. HC286.4.Z9.U5.
U.S. Foreign Economic Administration. Board of Economic Warfare. The War Economics and Armament Office of the German High Command. Study, Dec 1942. pp. 25-30. HC286.4.W67.
"The Volkswagon Story." After the Battle (No 12, 1976): pp. 1-14. Per.
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Hitler Youth
Blumentritt, Guenther. "Vormilitarische Jugendertuchtigung?" USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1947. 16 p. D739.F6713noB-648.
Koch, H.W. The Hitler Youth. NY: Stein & Day, 1976. 348 p. DD253.5.K6. Concentrates on the regional and local level.
Lapper, Karl, & Utermann, Wilhelm. Jungen-Eure Welt: Das Jahrbuch der Hitler-Jugend. Munchen, Germany: Nachf, 1939. 490 p. WC#37-1531.
U.S. War Dept. AGO. German Military Documents Section. German Military Training. Wash, DC: AGO, 1946. pp. 81-97. U570.U3.
See also: -Germany section in Children, Youth & War Bibliography. German Home Front, WWII p.7
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Labor/Manpower
Fried, John H.E. Exploitation of Foreign Labour by Germany. Montreal: International Labour Office, 1945. 286 p. HD8446.F74.
Hierl, Konstantin. "Concept and Formation of the Reich Labor Force." USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1947. D739.F6713noD-037.
Hancock, Eleanor. "Employment in Wartime: The Experience of German Women during WWII." War & Society (Oct 1994): pp. 43-68. Per.
Homze, Edward L. Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1967. 350 p. HD8450.H66. Inception, organization, and administration of program.
Junecke, Walther. "Security Measures against Strikes." USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1947. D739.F6713noD-109. German Technical Emergency Service; seizure of factories and transportation facilities behind the lines.
Retzlaff, Hans. Arbeitsmaiden am Werk: Ein Bildbuch. Leipzig: Seemann, 1940. 136 p. WC#21-903.
Schalkhaeuser. "Personnel and Administration Project #2b." USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1945. D739.F6713noP-027. Role of German women in war service.
Schlotterbeck, Friedrich. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars. [Translated from German] London: Gollancz, 1947. 250 p. DD256.3.S3313. German worker's memories of life in the Third Reich.
Sternberg, Fritz. German Man Power: The Crucial Factor. Wash, DC: The Brookings Inst, 1942. 44 p. D850.S76. Problem of military draft versus production manpower.
U.S. Office of Strategic Services. "Foreign Labor in Germany." Study, 1944. 224 p. HD8442.F67.
_____. Research & Analysis Branch. European Axis Manpower Summary: The German Civilian Labor Force. Study, 16 Apr 1945. 17 p. HD5779.E97.
See also: -Bibliography on Concentration Camps in Germany-WWII. German Home Front, WWII p.8
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Media Activities
Byers, Catherine P. “Reporting Wartime Germany: Perceptions of American Journalists in Berlin, 1939-1941.” PhD dss, Ball State, 1986. 233 p. D799.G3.B93Microfilm.
Kris, Ernst, & Speier, Hans. German Radio Propaganda. NY: Oxford, 1944. 529 p. D810.P7.G353. How the war was presented by German propagandists to German people.
Schutz, W.W. Pens Under the Swastika. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1971. 111 p. DD256.5.S3432.
Tegel, Susan. Nazis and the Cinema. NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. 324 p. PN1995.9.N36.T44.
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Organization Todt
Dorsch, Xaver. "Organisation Todt." 3 vols. USAREUR Foreign Mil Study, 1947. 4 p. D739F6713noB-617; B-670 & P-037.
U.S. War Dept. AGO. German Military Documents Section. German Military Training. Wash, DC: AGO, 1946. pp. 115-16. U15.U635no3.
SPECIAL ASPECTS-Social Conditions
Benjamin, Greg. “The Salvation Army in Germany, 1933-1945.” PhD dss, U KS, 1996. 340 p. BX9719.G3.B464.
Bleuel, Hans Peter. Sex and Society in Nazi Germany. NY: Lippincott, 1973. 272 p. D810.S46.B4313.
Burchardt, Lothar. "The Impact of the War Economy on the Civilian Population of Germany during the First and Second World Wars." In The German Military in the Age of Total War. Warwickshire, England: Berg, 1985. pp. 40-70. UA710.G372.
Cowdery, Ray R., & Josephine. Papers Please!: Identity Documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich. Lakeville, MN: USM Inc, 1996. 142 p. D743.27.C69.
Hardy, Alexander G. Hitler's Secret Weapon: The "Managed" Press and Propaganda Machine of Nazi Germany. NY: Vantage, 1967. 350 p. DD256.5.H37. German Home Front, WWII p.9
Hinz, Berthold. Art in The Third Reich. [Translation of Malerei im Deutschen Faschismus by Robert & Rita Kimber] NY: Pantheon, 1979. 268 p. N6868.5.N37.H5613.
Kirwin, Gerald. "Waiting for Retaliation -- A Study in Nazi Propaganda Behaviour and German Civilian Morale." In The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE, 1982. pp. 344-61. D743.S386.
Krieg, Robert A. Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany. NY: Continuum, 2004. 234 p. D810.C6.K75.
Oechsner, Frederick, et al. This Is the Enemy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. 364 p. D757.O35. Chaps 17-20 describe life in wartime Germany.
Pauwels, Jacques R. Women, Nazis, and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984. 206 p. LA721.81.P39.
Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-45. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1978. 243 p. D810.W7.R8. Comparative study showing women's status and public images.
Schildt, Axel. “The Long Shadows of the Second World War: The Impact of Experiences and Memories of War on West German Society. In Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe. NY: Berghahn, 2010. pp. 197-213. D744.7.E8.Z84.
Schönhaus, Cioma. The Forger. [Translation of Passfälscher by Alan Bance; original German version edited by Marion Neiss]. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo, 2007. 220 p. D811.5.S3613. Assisted his fellow Jews by forging documents to keep them alive; ultimately escaped via bicycle to Switzerland.
Snyder, David R. Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 2007. 287 p. D810.S46.S69.
Stein, Leo. Hitler Came for Niemoeller: The Nazi War against Religion. Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2003. 336 p. D811.5.S732.
Steinert, Marlis G. Hitler's War and the Germans: Public Mood and Attitude during the Second World War. [Edited & translated by Thomas E.J. deWitt] Athens, OH: OH U, 1977. 387 p. D757.S8613.
Sternberg, Fritz. From Nazi Sources: Why Hitler Can't Win. NY: Alliance, 1939. 208 p. HC286.4.S73. Forecast of German stamina on the eve of the war.
Weber, R.G.S. The German Student Corps in the Third Reich. NY: St Martin’s, 1986. 209 p. LA729.W43.