Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University The Last Battle Inventory List First published by Simon & Schuster in 1966. The Last Battle has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Table of Contents Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University ..... 1 Initial Research ................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Allied Political and Military Leadership ............................................................................................................................... 6 American Forces .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 French Forced Labor ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 German Civilians ............................................................................................................................................................... 30 German Forces ................................................................................................................................................................. 44 Russian Forces .......................................................................................................................Error! 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Photographs ..................................................................................................................................................................... 66 Flag images on the pages below are from the Wikimedia Commons. 2 Initial Research Box 38 • Folder 5 o Outline, ideas and framework. • Book outline and framework (Ts carbon, 4p.; c.2 Ts, 3p.). • Draft letter concerning project to Hobe lewis (Ts with holo revisions, 3p.). • List of documents needed (photostat, 3p.). • People to be located (Ts, 1p.). • List of military units which need records located (Ts carbon, 1p.). • Memo Bruce Lee to Ryan on analysis of MS #P-136, June 25, 1962 (Ts, 5p.). • Memo G. Fort to Ryan on various research documents, Aug 14, 1962 (Ts with holo additions, 1p.). • Notebook with ideas, Frau Ilona Hohenau interview (holo, 49p.). • Folder 6 o List of book characters with location and nationality (Ts, 2p.). o Notes on units, personnel, material to be used in research (holo, 25p.). • Folder 7 o “Who Was a Nazi?”, Office of Military Government for Germany, United States, Berlin, June, 1946 (brochure, 36p.). • Folder 8 o “Berlin”, Ullstein Publishing Co, Templhof, Berlin, ca. Aug, 1961 (20p.). • Folder 9 o SCOOP (Press Club of San Francisco publication), 1946 (160p.). Box 39 • Folder 1 o Listing of Historical Division, U.S. Army, Europe, publication series (photostat with holo notations, 8p.). o *Historical Division, U.S. Army, Europe, was consolidated into the Office of Chief Military History (OCMH). All documents will be labeled “OCMH”, regardless of origin. • Folder 2 – OCMH publications. o Willemer, Wilhelm, “The German Defense of Berlin”, MS #P-136 (xerox, 69p.). • Folder 3 o Rendulic, Lothar, “A Gp South”, MS #B-328 (xerox, 18p.). • Folder 4 o “The Fighting Qualities of the Russian Solider”, MS #D-036 (xerox, 12p.). • Folder 5 o Bauer, Magna, “The End of Army Group Weichsel and Twelfth Army, April 27 – May 7, 1945″, MS #R-69 (xerox, 96p.). • Folder 6 3 o Blumentritt, Gunther, “Battles Fought by the First Parachute Army between 28 March and 9 April 1945 (east of the Rhine)”, MS #B-354 (xerox, 20p.). • Folder 7 o Wagener, Carl, “A Gp B – Estimate of the Situation concerning the Remagen Bridgehead”, MS #B-593 (xerox, 18p.). • Folder 8 o Estor, Fritz, “Eleventh Army (1-23 April 1945)”, MS #B-581 (xerox, 46p.). • Folder 9 o “The Last Russian Offensive 1945, XXVII Corps Sector”, MS #D-281 (xerox, 63p.). • Folder 10 o Von Edelsheim, “Capitulation Negotiations between the 12 (German) Armee and the 9th (American) Army, which took place at Syendal on 4 May 1945″, MS #B-220 (xerox, 7p.). • Folder 11 o Arndt, Karl, “XXXIX Panzer Corpe (22 Apr – 7 May 45)”, MS #B-221 (xerox, 30p.). • Folder 12 o Blumentritt, Gunther, “The Last Battles of ‘A.O.K. Blumentritt’ 10 Apr – 5 May 45″, MS #B-361 (xerox, 30p.). • Folder 13 o Blimentritt, Gunther, “The Inhumanity of Modern Warfare”, MS #B-662 (xerox, 13p.). • Folder 14 o Schramm, Percy, “Wehrmacht losses (World War II)”, MS #B-176 (xerox, 34p.). • Folder 15 o Wagener, Carl, “The Remagen Bridgehead (11 Mar 45 – 21 Mar 45)”, ch.6 of MS #A-965 (xerox, 19p.). • Folder 16 o Raus, Erhard, “The ‘Pomeranian Battle’ and the Command in the East”, MS #D-189 (xerox, 36p.). • Folder 17 o Wenck, “Report on the Twelfth Army”, MS #B- 394 (xerox, 8p.). • Folder 18-19 o Boldt, Gerhard, IN THE SHELTER WITH HILTER (pp. 1-78, xerox; complete; 3 copies). • Folder 20 o Oldfield, Barney, NEVER A SHOT FIRED IN ANGER (pp. 210-241, xerox). • Folder 21 o Montgomery, Fldm Bernard, NORMANDY TO THE BALTIC (pp. 261-277, xerox; 2 copies). • Folder 22 o Saunders, Hilary St George, THE RED BERET (pp. 310-315, xerox). • Folder 23 o Weidling, Helmut, “The Final Battle in Berlin (April 23 to May 2, 1945)”, o WEHRWISSENSCHAFTLICHE RUNDSCHAU, #1- 3, Jan-Mar, 1962 (Ts, 31p.; c.2 carbon, 31p.). Box 40 • Folder 1 o Simonov, Konstantin, “As Victor in Berlin” (Ts with holo revisions, 8p.). • Folder 2 o Gruber, Heinrich, “To Live with the Russians”, STERN, May 2, 1965 (Ts with holo revisions, 9p.). • Folder 3 o DIE GESCHICHTE DES PANZERKORPS GROSSDEUTSCHLAND (History of the Tank Corps 4 “Grossdeutschland”), ch.7 (English: Ts, 3p.; c.2 carbon, 3p.). • Folder 4 o Von Tippelskirch, Kurt, HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (pp. 656ff as Ts, 10p.; c.2 carbon, 9p.). • Folder 5 o Kesselring, Fldm, MEMOIRS (pp. 237-319, xerox). • Folder 6 o McMillian, Richard, MIRACLE BEFORE BERLIN (pp. 128-160, xerox). • Folder 7 o Lederrey, E., GERMANY’S DEFEAT IN THE EAST – 1941-45 (pp. 195-230, xerox). • Folder 8 o D’Arcy-Dawson, John, EUROPEAN VICTORY (pp. 267-299, xerox). • Folder 9 o Singh, Brig Thakur, “The Battle of Berlin”, JOURNAL OF THE UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION OF INDIA, v.79-80, 1949-50 (pp.163-168, xerox). • Folder 10 o Trevor-Roper, Hugh, THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER (pp. 265- 273, xerox). • Folder 11 o Montgomery, Fldm Bernard, “An Approach to Sanity”, CHICHELE LECTURE, May, 1959 (pp.43-94, xerox). • Folder 12 o Axmann, Artur, “With Hitler in His Bunker”, STERN, Apr 25, 1965 (Ts with holo revisions, 35p.). o Letter John Flint to Ryan, TLS, June 9, 1965 (1p.). • Folder 13 o Bradley, Omar, A SOLIDER’S STORY (pp. 530-539, 543-554, xerox). • Folder 14 o Leahy, Adm William, I WAS THERE (pp. 350-365, xerox). • Folder 15 o Bernadotte, Count Folke, THE CURTAIN FALLS (pp. 86-94, 104-119, xerox). • Folder 16 o Deane, John, THE STRANGE ALLIANCE (pp. 134-139, 142-155, 162-181, xerox). • Folder 17 o Lee, Bruce, NEWSWEEK article, May 9, 1960 (photostat, 3p.). • Folder 18 o LOOK, Jan 6, 1959; May 4, 1965; June 1, 1965. • Folder 19 o TRUE, March 1963. • Folder 20 o NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Sept 12, 1965; Dec 26, 1965. • Folder 21 o “Berlin/1964″, ESQUIRE, July 1964 (pp. 35-40). • Folder 22 o NEW YORKER, Apr 7, 14, 28, 1951; May 5, 1951. Box 41 • Folder 1 o “La Chute de Berlin”, PARIS MATCH, Feb 20, 1965. • Folder 2 o Donnison, F.S.V., HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – CIVIL AFFAIRS AND MILITARY 5 GOVERNMENT NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-46 (pp. 187-205, xerox). • Folder 3 o Riess, Curt, THE BERLIN STORY (pp. 12-15, xerox). o ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945 (Official RAF history), v.3 (pp. 288, 292 as Ts, 1p.). o Webster, Sir Charles, THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY 1939-45, v.3 (p. 199 as Ts, 1p.). o Byford-Jones, BERLIN TWLIGHT (pp. 29-32, xerox). o Thorwald, Jurgen, FLIGHT IN THE WINTER (Ts carbon, 1p.). o Morgan, Gen Sir Frederick, PEACE AND WAR (pp. 206, 211- 213 as Ts, 2p.). • Folder 4 o “The War Ends in Europe”, LIFE, May 14, 1945 (xerox, 17p.). • Folder 5 o Powell, Robert, “Berlin Today”, FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, Oct, 1945 (pp. 234-239, xerox). • Folder 6 o Baldwin, Hanson W., “America at War: Victory in Europe”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July, 1945 (pp. 527-542, xerox). • Folder 7 o Cartier, Raymond, “The Day Hitler Died”, PARIS MATCH, July 6, 1962 (English: Ts, 36p.). • Folder 8 o “Letter from Berlin”, NEW YORKER, Aug 4, 1945 (photostat, 6p.). • Folder 9 o “Berlin: The Broken City”, ATLANTIC MONTHLY supplement, Dec, 1963 (pp. 84-134). • Folder 10 o Nichol, David M., excerpts from Washington POST articles, Dec 25-27, 1961 (mimeograph, 9p.). • Folder 11 o Letter John Wilhelm to Ryan, TLS, Mar 18, 1965 (1p.). o Newspaper and magazine articles, Apr – May, 1945 (77 items: 215p.). • Folder 12 o Newspaper and magazine