Title: World War II German Manuscript Collection, 1937-1945
Extent: 1.25 Linear Feet
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, World War, 1939-1945--Maps, World War, 1939-1945--Sources
Forms of Material: Personal Papers
Languages: German
Repository: Special Collections & University Archives
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation: Identification of item, folder title, box number, World Wat II German Manuscript Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
Daily reports: -of the Divisions' movements and their leaders' names
-of reached towns and cities
-of the weather conditions
-January 7, 1942: Operation Crimea-Kharkov, Dnjepr-river, Sevastopol-port
-December 1941 - January 1942: Enemy, connections, army positions and instructions
-March - June: a battle at Crimea
-North-East of Sytshevka. The Task Force in winter between November 28 - December 16, 1942. By General Ludwig Merker. A tactic principle and a description of each Division movements.
-Orientation summary of German Offensive in Western Europe. May 1940
-"Revival" of one Bunker Line of May 1940 a description
-"An Attack in Pathless Wooded Mountains" in Caucasus on September 25-27, 1942. Description written by Emil Wilhem Vogel
Maps of situations of the Russian Army by
Maps number: 20-56
The Russian Offensive through Poland, Romania and Hungary
Chapter 1: The Russian Offensive against the Northern Ukraine Army in Southern Poland in a summer 1944.
-Special instructions for Air Force.
-Secret commands to North, Middle and South Armies.
-Map 12 (-64-): a sketch of States and Regions. The States' borders after September 1943 (Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria)
The Operations of the 4th Tank Division in the campaign against the Soviet Union from June 22, 1941 until April 20, 1942.
Part IV: Pioneers.
Section A: "Goal Leningrad" (June 22-September 17, 1941)
Section B: "Gal Moscow" (October 2-December 5, 1941)
Section C/D: "Before Moscow to the dense defence" (December 6, 1941 - January 24, 1942)
-Secret Commands: drafts
-A pattern of the South Army Group, position: June 21, 1941
-Document 1780-PS...from Official Daily Report Book of von JODL, of January 4, 1937 - August 15, 1939. Events in 1937.
-MS#P-215. Interpretation and Commentary on the JODL Diaries, 1937 - 45, by D. Walter Warlimont, General of Artillery.
-Comments to a copy of MS#P-215. Part 1. By Warlimont. March 15, 1959.
-Part 1. January 4, 1937 - September 29, 1938 and August 23-25, 1939.