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American Committee on the History of the Second ....10; AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR Arthur L. Funk, Ck~irman Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary Department of History and Newsletter Editor University of Florida NEWSLETTER Department of history Gainesville, Florida 32611 Southern Dlinois University Carbondale, minnis 62901 Permanent Directors 0-89126-060-9 Robin Higham, Archivist Charles F. Delzell Department of History Vanderbilt University Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506 H. Stuart Hughes University of California Fall 1978 Book Revieu: Coordination at San Diego Number 20 Robert Dallek Forrest C. Pogue Department of History Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute CONTENTS University of California at Los Angeles Terms expiring 1978 Los Angeles, California 90024 '.;ean C. Allard Membership and Dues • 2 James J. Dougherty Naval History Division National Endowment for the Humadties Charles B. Burdick Washington, D. C. 20500 San Jose State University Note on the Membership Directory 2 Philip A. Crowl Bibliography Naval'War College Committee Elections • 2 J anat Ziegler Robert A. Divine Reference Department University of Texas at Austin UCLA Library Los Angeles, California 90024 William M. Franklin The International Comndttee News Bulletin 3 Deoartment of State (ret.) American Commdll!l! ill John Lewis Gaddis affiliotl!d with: Ohio University 1978 ANNUAL MEETING (28 December) American Historical Association Colonel A. F. Hurley ACHSWW Business Meeting. 3 400 A Street, S. E. Washington,D.C.~ Air Force Academy Joint AHA-ACHSWW Session on U. S. Occu­ Robert Wolfe Comite International National Archives pation Policy for Germany. 3 d'Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerra Mondie.le Janet Ziegler Session on Teaching the Holocaust. 4 32, rue de Leningrad University of California 75008 Paris, France at Los Angeles OTHER MEETINGS Terms expiring 1979 Stephen E. Ambrose Sofia, May 1978. 5 University of New Orleans Helsinki, June 1978. 6 Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr. Chief of Milltary History Warren F. Kimball RESEARCH RESOURCES AND FACILITIES Rutgers University, Newark The Leo Ba.eck Institute in New York Robert O. Paxton and Its Holdings on the Second World Columbia University Agnes F. Peterson War. 7 Hoover Institution The Institute for European History Harrison E. Salisbury in Mainz • The New York Times . 11 Telford Taylor The Library for Contemporary History . 12 New York City Russell F. Weigley Temple University BIBLIOGRAPHY. .13 Terms expiring 1980 ATTACHMENTS (following page 28) Martin Blumenson Washington, D. C. News Bulletin of the International Harold C. Deutsch Committee Army War College Election Ballot Stanley L. Falk Office of Air Force History Information and Membership Form Maurice Matloft Center of Military History Ernest R. May Harvard University John Toland Danbury, Connecticut Gerhard L. Weinberg University of North Carolina Roberta Wohlstetter Pan Heuristics, Los Anaeles Earl F. Ziemke University of Georgia MEMBERSHIP AND DUES Membership is open to anyone interested in the history of the Second World War. Annual dues, payable in January for the calendar year, are $10.00 for regular members, as well as for institut.ions receiving the semiannual newsletter, and $2.00 for students. Those wishing to join or to renew their membership are invited to fill out the lower part of the Information and Membership Form (attached to this news­ letter as an unnumbered page) and to return it, with the appropriate remittance, to the secretary. The information provided on the form will be included, unless otherwise requested, in the Membership Directory. NOTE ON THE MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Newsletter 19, issued this past spring, included a thirty- five page directory of the membership of the ACHSWW. A re­ vised version will be prepared for the Spring 1979 news­ letter. It will not include, as originally planned, a listing of the officers of the International Committee and the chair­ men of the affiliated national committees, for they are listed on pp. 23-26 of the attached News Bulletin of the International Commi ttee • The directory in the ACHSWW's next newsletter will refle,~:t changes of address and correction of errors kindly brought to our attention. Recent moves that have not yet been reported, as well as other changes in or additions to indi­ vidual entries, may be indicated on the attached Information and Membership Form. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS The three-year terms of eight of the directors and of the committee's two officers end on 31 December 1978. Following the established practice of the committee, the directors, acting as a nominating committee, have selected a slate of incumbents and new candidates. These nominations are recorded on the ballot attached to this newsletter (as an unnumbered page following the International Committee News Bulletin) . Members are requested to send their completed ballots to the secretary at their earliest convenience, either enclosing them when they renew their membership or sending them separ­ ately. Because of possible delays in postal service during November (when this newsletter with the ballot is being mailed) and December, ballots will not be tallied until January. 2 THE INTEm~ATIONAL COMMITTEE NEWS BULLETIN The September 1978 issue of the News BUlletin of the Inter­ national Committee is appended to this newsletter following the bibliography, \vhich ends on page 28. We hope to pro­ vide ACHSWW members regularly with copies of this bulletin, with its valuable coverage of international activities and scholarship on the area of the Second World War. THE 1978 ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the ACHSWW is being held this year! as in the past, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In 1978 the joint meeting is .being held in San Francisco. BUSINESS MEETING The ACHSWW Business Meeting is scheduled to take place from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, 28 December 1978, in the Walnut Room of the San Francisco Hilton. The tentative agenda includes plans for a joint session proposal for the 1979 annual meeting, being held in New York, and for the program of the 1980 Conference of the Interna­ tional Committee for the History of the Second World War, being held in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences in Bucharest. (Information on the International Co~mittee's plans for this conference will be found in the International Committee's Bulletin, which is appended to this newsletter.) Another item on the agenda will be the question of research resources on the World War II era, the topic on which the ACHSWN initially had proposed a joint session, but for which a substitution had to be made, as explained below. No formal presentation on research resources is planned, but rather a general discussion of what the committee may be able to do in order to facilitate the study of the World War II era. (The com~ mittee secretary--should any member wish to contact him before the meeting regarding the agenda or for other reasons--is planning to arrive at the San Francisco ~ilton on the evening of the 27th.) 1978 JOINT SESSION At the 1977 business meeting of the ACHSWW, it was resolved, as reported in Newsletter 19, that the committee propose a joint session with the AHA on the topic of Research Resources for the Era of the Second World War. a panel discussion including leading authorities (among them three members of the committee's board) on different aspects of the challenge of developing control of the vast and growing body of source materials on the World War II period. When it was learned that the AHA Program Committee, relatively early in its deliberations, had ruled out our proposal, it was arranged 3 4 to co-sponsor another proposed session that had, in a sense t grown out of our May 1977 conference on the postwar occupation of Germany and Japan t but that had not been initially adopted by the program committee. The AHA-ACHSWW joint session for the 1978 meeting t as finally approved t will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, 28 Dec., in the Borgia Room of the St. Francis Hotel, Session 55. FROM PUNISmtENT TO REORIENTATION--ASPECTS OF REFORM: THE REVERSE COURSE IN UNITED STATES OCCUPATION POLICY FOR GERMANY Joint Session ~,dth the American Commi. ttee on the History of the Second World War Chair: Willard A. Fletcher t University of Delaware From Prosecution to Clemency for War Criminals John Mendelsohn, National Archives and Records Service From Information Control to Media Freedom Robert Wolfe, National Archives and Records Service German Public Views on Changing U. S. OCcupation Policy Richard L. Merritt, University of Illinois Comment: Earl F. Ziemke, University of C~orgia Synopsis: As in postwar Japan, where the term "Reverse Course" originated t there was a dramatic reversal of occupation policy in the American zone of GermanYt illustrated in this session with papers ex­ plaining U. S. administration of justice to war criminals t control of the mediat the policy changes that took place in both these areaS t and the response of German public opinion to the Reverse Course in occupied Germany. SESSIO>! ON THE HOLOCAUST Committee members free on the morning of the 28th may be interested in attending Session 25, the joint session of the AHA and the Committee on History in the Classroom (of which the ACHSWW secretary is co-chairman)t Teaching the Holocaust: Comparative Approaches to a Sensitive Subject (9:30-11:30 a.m.~ 28 Dec" Colonial Room of the St. Francis Hotel). Organized and chaired by Donald S. Detwiler, the session will have papers by Siegfried Bachmann, Brunswick, Gerald R. Kleinfeld t Arizona State t and Erich Go1dhagen t Harvard. The commentator will be Howard Morley Sachar of George Washington University. Synopsis: Ultimately incomprehensible t the Holocaust confronts the teacher of history with a daunting challenge.
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