National Socialism, the Holocaust, and World War II: Websites for Primary Sources

Full-text public documents pertaining to the war and coming from the U.S., U.K., and Commonwealth countries, provided by the HyperWar Foundation.

Links to official public documents, articles in the period, and other primary sources, all from the European Studies program at Brigham Young University.

Produced at Fordham, the site presents primary sources for Nazism, the Holocaust, and WWII. See the list of topics in left-hand column.

California State University at Stanislaus--the History Department--produces this site with many links to National Socialism, the Holocaust, and WWII.

Yale Law School's collection of digitized World War II documents. Many combatant states and neutrals are included.

In honor of the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, the Indiana University (Bloomington) Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) presents this exhibit of 117 digitized public domain WWII films spanning the years 1940-1945.

This online exhibition is available for free to the general public and may be browsed alphabetically by film title and subject. The original movies were distributed by Indiana University during and after the war years as part of the IU Bureau of Audio-Visual Aids and are now part of IU Libraries Moving Image Archive's core collection of educational films, which is one of the largest such collections in the world.

Links to official public documents, articles in the period, and other primary sources, all from the European Studies program at Brigham Young University.

Produced at Fordham, the site presents primary sources for Nazism, the Holocaust, and WWII. See the list of topics in left-hand column.

California State University at Stanislaus--the History Department--produces this site with many links to National Socialism, the Holocaust, and WWII.

Calvin College (Michigan) produces this specialized site with a number of links to the propaganda put out by the Nazis.

Though not affiliated with any college or university, the site is produced by clearly credentialed educators and is aimed at secondary or undergraduate classrooms; links and lesson plans feature digitized primary source documents relevant to National Socialism and World War II.

The University of Wisconsin provides this site of texts of documents written at the end of WWII or just after, including reports of U.S. occupation forces. The documents, some of which are in English, relate to Germany's condition upon surrender and early steps toward recovery.

Self-described as a vast "digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts" the Internet Archive offers a large and miscellaneous collection searchable by keyword.

Produced by the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, of particular relevance is the link to "Documentary Evidence" and others.

The world center for documentation and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem's Holocaust Resource Center website presents a dozen "gates" or main topics to explore for links to primary sources on the Holocaust.

Although it is unclear by what authority this site is produced, the site's anti-hate, anti-denial stance is transparent. Nizkor--"we remember"--offers a thorough collection of online sources related to the Holocaust and war crimes trials.

Produced at Fordham, the site presents primary sources for Nazism, the Holocaust, and WWII. See the list of topics in left-hand column.

Harvard Law School Library makes available documents from at least some of the cases at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and it will grow as funding permits.

Click on the link "The International Military Tribunal for Germany" to access documents digitized by Yale Law School.

A website from Yale containing portions of selected examples of video testimony of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. The complete archive--at Yale--contains over 4,000 such testimonies.

The College of Education at the University of South Florida produces this extensive list of links to Holocaust and Nuremberg Trial primary sources.

Produced at the University of London, visit the site's link to "Documents" where it offers the texts of official orders, letters, declarations, regulations, etc., from this early phase of the Holocaust. English translations provided.

On this website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, click on "History" and choose "Personal Histories" on its pull-down menu for many full-text memoires of personal suffering in the Holocaust. Also click on "Research" and choose "Collections and Archives" on its pull-down menu for both photo archives and a link to search the photo collections.

This website consists of over 4000 images from the Henryk Ross collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In Ross's photographic record of human life and suffering, you can see the Nazi propaganda he was compelled to produce alongside the images of tragedy and resilience he wanted us to know.