War, Peace and Social Change

Part 1 Between two wars: France, Germany and the UK, industrial disputes, 1914-39; number of seats won and percentage of votes in German Reichstag, 1918-33, French Chambre des Deputes, 1902-36, British House of Commons, 1918-45; summary of governments of Germany, 1919-32, France, 1918-40, Britain, 1919-39; mark/dollar exchange rate, 1914-23, Reich cost of living index February 1920-December 1923; unemployment in Germany, Britain and France, 1919-39; indices of industrial production for major industrialized countries, 1927-1935; "The Matignon Agreement" (1936); wages, prices and real earnings, Great Britain, 1913-38; Benito Mussolini, extracts from "The doctrine of fascism" (1932); Gaetano Salvemini, "How the dictatorship arose" (1928); report of the American Consul in Leipzig (21 November 1938); Adolf Hitler, "Memorandum on the Four-Year Plan" (August 1936); Anatoli Lunacharsky, "The tasks of the state cinema in the RSFSR" (1919); Pavel Petrov-Bytov, "We have no Soviet cinema" (21 April 1929); Adolf Hitler, speech from the "Twilight Rally" sequence of "Triumph of the Will" (1935); John Reith "The best of everything" (1924); John Reith, on the BBC's coverage of the General Strike, May 1926 (15 May 1926); parliamentary discussion on censorship and restriction of liberty (7 December 1938); extracts from the reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the observations of the German delegation on the Conditions of Peace (16 June 1919); Jan Smuts, letter to Lloyd George (26 March 1919); Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag (7 March 1936); R. Barrington-Ward editorial in "The Times" (9 March 1936); Eric Dunstan, commentary to "The Rhine" (12 March 1936); Neville Chamberlain, extract from speech to House of Commons (24 March 1938). Part 2 World War II and its consequences: "order concerning the exercise of martial jurisdiction and procedure in the area "Barbarossa" and special military measures" (13 May 1941; "top secret - supplement to Order no. 33" (23 July 1941); Generaloberst Franz Halder, affidavit at Nurnberg (22 November 1945); Milovan Djilas, extract from "Wartime" (1977); "The Atlantic Charter", joint statement by President of the United States and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1941); Josef Stalin, extract from speech to the Moscow Soviet and representatives of Moscow Party and public organizations on the 25th anniversary of the October revolution (6 November 1942); "The Crimea Declaration - a statement issued by the Prime Minister, President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at Yalta" (12 February 1945). (Part contents).