InfoGuides: HIST 4337 (Dr. Elizabeth Clark): Nazi Germany: Primary Sources

Finding Primary Source

The other boxes on this page offer a few suggestions and possibilities for primary source research but are only the beginning.

To discover primary sources generally, try these approaches:

Scour the bibliographies and notes of relevant secondary sources such as articles, books, and dissertations on your topic. They are necessarily drawing on relevant primary sources. We may or may not have access then to those primary sources.
Search in our catalog or in WorldCat and include these subject terms: Personal narratives, Facsimiles, Diaries, Correspondence, Sources. Alternately, try including document? [in our catalog] or document* [in WorldCat] as a key word for mentions of "documents" or "documentary" in the title or description.

Digitized Collections

U.S. relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
35,023 images from 1940-1950 of telegrams, despatches, reports, letters, memos, and interviews between the president’s representative to the Vatican and his staff, the State Department, other U.S. government agencies, the Vatican, and the Italian government. Explores such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, the Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews.
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees : The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
Over 30,000 images from the records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR), organized1938 to address the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe. Covers the years 1938-1947.
European History Primary Sources
Compiles digitized primary sources pertaining to European history. Can filter by language.

Notable Print Items Here

These are just a small sample of many sources we have here, in addition to what we may have as an eBook or can get through Interlibrary Loan:

Final entries, 1945 : the diaries of Joseph Goebbels / Joseph Goebbels; H R Trevor-Roper; Richard Barry
Hitler's letters and notes / Werner Maser; Adolf Hitler
Speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 / Adolf Hitler
Documents on Germany, 1944-1970 / Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.
Failure of a mission : Berlin 1937-1939 / Nevile Henderson
Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 / William L. Shirer
The Buchenwald report / David A Hackett
Soldat : reflections of a German soldier, 1936-1949 / Siegfried Knappe; Charles T Brusaw; Susan Davis McLaughlin

Newspapers

We have digital access to the 1930s and 40s editions of the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News, among others. We also have on microfilm those and the newspapers from Canyon, Austin, Tulia, Nashville, and London, plus the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

For more, see details in the extended guide.

More on Primary Sources

For more on primary sources from Cornette Library, please see our detailed guide.