World War II: Foreign perspectives

A compilation of online resources available from the Library of Congress and from external websites.

A long bibliography of websites and books, to support the PBS documentary The War. There are a number of links to veterans' organizations at the bottom of the page.

Links to a number of online resources, from the National Archives.

Refseek is a document search engine that locates otherwise hard-to-find websites and documents.

Look here for statistical information about different aspects of the war.

Data about the war in the Pacific, from the National WWII Museum.

A collection of links to primary and secondary sources from Ibiblio.

Oral histories, photos, documents, and newspapers documenting the Japanese American experience while incarcerated or interned during World War II.

Papers relating to relations between Germany, Poland, Great Britain and France.

Memoirs, documents, radio broadcasts, etc. from the US and abroad during World War II.

Collection of primary source documents about Germany and Socialism from BYU.

A 1942 directive from Stalin.

English translation of the pact between Germany and Italy.

Memoirs of the bombings of London as published by the Daily Mail.

Large collection of historical documents, essays and images related to Marxism around the world.

Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office.

Treaties, declarations, words of surrender, etc., organized by year.

The BBC gathered 47,000 memories from participants in WWII. Read their stories here.

A collection of primary source documents from the Yale University Avalon Project.

Documents from before, during and after World War II. Includes materials from Europe, Asia and the United States.

A page from the Library of Congress with a hand-drawn map from a Japanese pilot, showing the damaged American ships.

Documents from the 23 volume, 40 part, 25,000 page report of Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-Ninth Congress which was released on July 20, 1946.

Descriptions and photos from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A 1995 journal article discussing US surveillance of the Japanese Navy prior to Pearl Harbor.

Speeches, posters, cartoons, etc.

Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda movie about the Nazi party, released in 1935.

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.

A collection of primary sources from the National Security Archive.

Large collection of documents related to the Trinity project and later testing of nuclear weapons. Includes government documents, photographs, data charts, and video footage.

Website for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

US War Department footage of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Definition of fascism written by Benito Mussolini for the Italian Encyclopedia.

A large collection of primary sources from Germany, including letters and speeches from the Nazi era.

An online exhibit from the University of Wisconsin.

1935 interview with Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan’s last representative at the League of Nations.

From NOVA, a site discussing the ethics of using medical information that came out of Nazi experimentation.

Also known as the Bergier Report, this documents Swiss actions during World War II and the Holocaust.

From the Jewish Virtual Library, a large collection of documents related to the Holocaust.

Large collection of links to primary source documents including speeches by Hitler, Nazi testimony about death camps, treaties, memoirs etc.

Central database cataloging art that was stolen during WWII.

This site has many references to different types of medical experiments that were carried out.

An article from the New England Journal of Medicine that discusses Nazi hypothermia experiments.

From Eurodocs at BYU, a collection of primary sources from the Holocaust.

Information about the Holocaust, from the museum in Washington, D. C.

An overview article about the ill-fated refugee ship.

A 2004 report on Comfort Women, from the now-closed Asian Women's Fund.

An article from the New York Times about Hirohito's role in WWII.

An article on Japanese textbooks and WWII atrocities, from George Mason University.

Images posted as part of a document marking the 75th anniversary of the massacre. Note: some of these images are quite disturbing.

Eyewitness accounts of the attack.

Topical overview from the BBC.

A February 2014 Time Magazine article stating that Japanese television broadcasters are claiming that the US fabricated stories of war crimes during WWII.

An article from the BBC explaining that history textbooks in Japan tend to gloss over Japanese atrocities during WWII.

Information about the Yakukuni Shrine, a controversial memorial site in Japan where, among others, 14 Japanese men convicted of war crimes are buried.

Overview information from the US Department of State.

An overview of the origination of the UN, with links to important documents.

Educational resources for researching the history of the United Nations, developed by educators at Harvard University.

Audio interviews and transcripts of memoirs important contributors to the work of the UN, including people who attended the 1945 San Francisco Conference.

Links to primary sources, from Yale's Avalon Project.