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Old 11-06-2005, 04:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I am looking to put together a compilation of links to WWII related source documents online. So, if you know of any, please post details and links.

As an example, I would idnetify the Avalon Project at Yale University, which provides, among many other original document texts, extensive original documentation of the International Militaty Tribunal's major war crimes trial at Nuremberg, at:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm

When there are enough, I hope to put them together in one list.
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Good idea Angie.

Here's a couple I know of:

New Zealand War History Project
- Has volumes of NZ WW2 Official History and Unit histories avialble.

http://www.nzetc.org/projects/wh2/index.html

1st Worcestershire Regiment War Diary NW Europe 1944-45

http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.p...inc/war_diaries

Australian War Memorial
- This site contains a lot of useful info and access to original material.

http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/index.htm
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D-day related documents and other material from the Dwight D Eisenhower Library:

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/d.../ddaypage.html
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Originally posted by angie999@Jun 15 2005, 11:32 AM
D-day related documents and other material from the Dwight D Eisenhower Library:

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/d.../ddaypage.html
What a resource! Full of memos journal entrys and excellent photos - If there is any one who hasnt seen it, you should!

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If you have links to original source material, folks, please post.
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Thanks, morse. Excellent. Please keep 'em coming, folks, as having the time and opportunity to track down good primary sources is a big problem for some of us amateurs.

Below is a link to trial transcripts and documents relating to the 2000 libel action where David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over "Denying the Holocaust":

http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org/ieindex.html
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American Army Centre for History

I know it is an american site but it still contains a lot of useful info concerning ww2
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Hi Angie999,

I posted this last week in homefront other countries.

There is a mix of info as well as letters to parents and letters from parents to government etc.

A very good quality sight.

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Australia's War 1939-1945
www.ww2australia.gov.au/



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