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    • Spies in America : German espionage in the United States, …

      https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4588&context=open_access_etds

      During the war years, German military intelligence ... Germany and the fiction of disarmament was cast aside. In . 1935, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed head of Germany's military espionage and counterespionage organization--the "Amt Ausland/Abwehr"--and found a small cadre of agents already employed in the United …

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    • Louisiana State University LSU Scholarly Repository

      https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4267&context=gradschool_theses

      AGAINST GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Liberal Arts in The Interdepartmental Program In Liberal Arts by Julius A. Rigole

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    • Australian POW Labour in Germany in World War II - JSTOR

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5263/labourhistory.103.0083

      The experiences of Australian POWs in Japanese captivity during World War II have assumed a central place in the Australian historiography of that war. Moreover, the literature in the fi eld makes clear the centrality of labour in the lives of POWs, whether in the form of the provision of medical services to fellow POWs or, more

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    • [PDF File] Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions

      https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Publication_OP_1997-02.pdf

      facts. Even a cursory glance at available evidence shows that the assumptions upon which these arguments are based are false. First, favorable conditions for Jewish resistance under the German occupation were virtually non-existent. Second, despite the absence of such conditions, there was a significant amount of Jewish resistance during that ...

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    • [PDF File] National Archives and Records Administration

      https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/ww2/casualty-lists.pdf

      National Archives and Records Administration. 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Washington, DC 20408-0001. World War II Casualty Lists. The Departments of War and the Navy created lists of casualties during World War II. The National Archives scanned those lists and they are available on NARA’s website in the online catalog at …

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    • [PDF File] What was a Victory Garden - The National WWII Museum

      http://enroll.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/at-a-glance/victory-garden-fact-sheet.pdf

      During World War II, Victory Gardens were planted by families in the United States (the Home Front) to help prevent a food shortage. Planting Victory Gardens helped make sure that there was enough food for our soldiers fighting around the world. Because canned vegetables were rationed, Victory Gardens also helped people stretch their ration ...

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    • [PDF File] A. The Allies and Sweden’s Wartime Neutrality

      https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/eur/rpt_9806_ng_sweden.pdf

      materials, the War would come to a halt. Sweden supplied 40 percent of Germany’s total iron supply in 1939 and 1940, but the proportion dropped off to 25 percent during the war years as Germany exploited resources in occupied Europe. Sweden exported 10 million tons of iron ore to Germany in 1939, and in 1943 exports still totaled 9.5 million ...

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    • War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance During World War II

      https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=13120

      executed by the Nazi-fascists during the Italian Civil War. 2 Below, we describe few episodes that took place during the Spring 1944, which was characterized by great military operations, the Summer 1944, when there was an intense ght against partisan briagdes, and the Spring 1945, when the end of the war was approaching.

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    • University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler

      https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=history_grad

      Tank Battalion, B Company, on the front lines during WWII (Published by the Author,2012),83. 2. ... Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945, Stephen E. Ambrose, possibly one of the best-known World War II historians, states his work is about the U.S. soldier in the

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    • [PDF File] CChhrriissttmmaass oonn tthhee WWWWIIII HHoommee …

      https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/christmas-on-the-home-front.pdf

      Christmas on the WWII Home Front. During World War II Christmas trees were in short supply because of a lack of manpower to cut the trees down and a shortage of railroad space to ship the trees to market. Americans rushed to buy American-made Visca artificial trees. In 1941, a five-foot Christmas tree could be purchased for 75 cents.

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    • From Enemy to Family: German War Brides and U.S.

      https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=applebaum_award

      98Petra Goedde, “From Villains to Victims: Fraternization and the Feminization of Germany, 1945-1947,” 16. For the military government’s announcement abolishing nonfraternization, see “Non-Fraternization,” September 29, 1945, RG 260, Box 87, File 261.1, NARA II. Wang 22. Chapter 3. The Making of the German War Bride.

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    • [PDF File] The Holocaust - The National WWII Museum

      https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/the-holocaust-at-a-glance.pdf

      inferior race and a threat to the survival of Germany. Anti-Semitism, or hatred of Jews, had a centuries-long history in Germany and throughout Europe, but reached its height during the Nazi era (1933-1945). The Nazis also claimed that Roma (Gypsies), Slavs (Poles, Russians), and physically and mentally

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    • World War II Technology that Changed Warfare - Radar and …

      https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ac_symposium

      Introduction. Two pieces of technology that stand out in the aviation history of World War II are Radar and Bombsights. Both technologies played a crucial role in the defensive and offensive strategies of all the countries involved. During World War II Radio Detecting and Ranging or RADAR, saw its first use in combat operations.

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    • History in the Making - California State University, San …

      https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=history-in-the-making

      In unprecedented times, the United States developed a synthetic alternative to natural rubber that was far more efficient. The United States’ response to the World War II rubber crisis would ultimately determine the fate of World War II and the Allies’ victory over the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan).

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    • The Watch Tower Bible and Tract society: How Jehovah’s …

      https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1472&context=master201019

      3 During the Third Reich, Jehovah’s Witnesses were also known as International Bible Students and Earnest Bible Students. The German designation was ‘Bibelforscher,’ term used by Hitler ... in Hitler’s Germany.5 In today’s society, religions are sometimes blamed for, and are often guilty of, fomenting terrorist acts and provoking wars ...

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    • Fashion Under the Swastika: An Analysis of Women's …

      https://digscholarship.unco.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=urj

      Johnson, Ayrika (2018) "Fashion Under the Swastika: An Analysis of Women's Fashion During the Third Reich," Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado: Vol. 7 : No. 3 , Article 1. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC.

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    • War, food rationing, and socioeconomic inequality in …

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/42921653

      This study provides human nutritional situation in Germany during the First presented here suggests that the official food rationing. estimated 50-60 per cent of the required nutritional calories, inefficiently. 68 Therefore, most people had to purchase food. to avoid starvation. Unofficial food prices increased to.

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    • [PDF File] Fact Sheet: Blood Plasma - The National WWII Museum

      https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/blood-plasma-fact-sheet.pdf

      During WWII the use of blood plasma was an essential component of treating wounded soldiers. When a soldier is critically wounded, blood loss is extremely dangerous. Rather than the loss of oxygen carrying red blood cells, the greatest concern is the loss of fluids which results in low blood pressure. By transfusing casualties with plasma, blood

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    • [PDF File] Wages during War, Inflation, and Dictatorship - National …

      https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c2509/c2509.pdf

      industrially matured Germany with the first of a series of extraordinary experiences. For the labor market, the initial effect of the declaration of 1 For this section on wages during World War1, extensive use is made of the following sources: Watdemar Zimmermann, "Die Veränderungen der Einkommens- und Lebens-

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    • [PDF File] CIGARETTES AND THEIR IMPACT IN WORLD WAR II

      https://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/37_blondia.pdf

      civilian life.36 Production of cigarettes increased from eighteen billion cigarettes in 1914 to forty-seven billion in 1918 and continued to increase to meet the tremendous rise in cigarette use during the first half of the twentieth century.37 “In 1911, the average American smoked 141 cigarettes.

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    • [PDF File] World War II and the American Red Cross

      https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/National/history-wwii.pdf

      For more information about the American Red Cross during World War II see the following publications, all of which are out of print but available in most libraries: Foster Rhea Dulles, The American Red Cross: A History. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1950. A general history the American Red Cross from its beginnings to 1950.

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    • The Legacy of the Danish Resistance in World War II

      https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1291&context=thebridge

      The general strike, which began June 26, 1944, was an encouraging victory, flaming the resistance movement. The arrest of the Danish police force, also in 1944, sent many police underground greatly strengthening the resistance. And surely, the delivery of weapons from the Allied forces, which increased drastically beginning in August 1944, was ...

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