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Funded by the Jaffe Collection, this official statistical source provides detailed data on the German economic situation during the Third Reich up to and throughout World War II.
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The Fortunoff Video Archive provided by Yale University includes thousands of video testimonies from those who experienced the Jewish Holocaust. The Archive provides a search engine to limit the testimonies for the researcher's specific needs. This resource includes information recorded in a variety of languages. Recordings vary in length from 30 minutes to several hours. 

To gain access to all of the testimonies and permissions you must first create an account. After logging in the first time you will be asked to verify your account .

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HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, and other commercial digitization projects. This resource is being expanded daily and provides information on more than 10 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).

An index (with abstracts) to journals published worldwide in many languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Many full-text articles are included. (NOTE: For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life.)
This documents collection focuses on the diplomatic, legal and political maneuvering during and after World War II regarding German art looting in Europe, recovery of cultural objects dispersed during World War II, and efforts by the U.S. and other Allied Powers to prevent the secreting of Axis assets. On the topic of looted art, the documents primarily relate to negotiations and litigation for return of items to legitimate owners.
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The collection provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects. Resources for each topic guide users through the full scope of the event, from the historical context that made such violations possible through the international response, prosecution of perpetrators, and steps toward rebuilding.

This database, funded by the Jaffe Collection, includes IGCR subject files and more than 30,000 images from the US National Archives on virtually every group of racial, religious, and political refugees from 1938 to 1947.
The Berlin Document Center is a collection of documents pertaining to Jewish communities. It is organized into various sub-collections from a wide variety of sources including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, and businesses, etc.
Though less well known than his other diaries and until now never published in full, the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer provide significant insights into the divided post-war Germany and early East Germany, as well as Klemperer’s engagement with Communism and Zionism. His careful observations and analyses from the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist era, and the German Democratic Republic illuminate what it meant to live under these three regimes. The database covers the entire four-decade period (from 1918 to 1959) in which Klemperer kept his diaries.
This collection consists of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia. Listed in alphabetical order, suffix names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women were added by law in 1936 to readily identify persons of Jewish descent.
This source includes primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves.
The British Online Archives' collection, Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes, 1944-1949, provides insight into the Nazi state activities during World War II. It contains hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and photos and provides access to primary sources related to this time. The collection includes records relating to war crimes, policies and procedures, correspondence, and more.
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The Shoah Visual History Archive allows users to view more than 50,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. These testimonies were recorded in a variety of countries and languages. UTD affiliates must create a free login to use this database.

Testaments to the Holocaust is a digitized, searchable full-text and image resource. Taken from the Wiener Library in London, England. This unique archive is organized into five sections: eyewitness accounts, photograph collection, propaganda materials, Wiener Library publications, and biographical index cards.
Funded by the Jaffe Collection, this database provides correspondence, reports, and other documents that spotlight America's relations with the Vatican during World War II and the Holocaust.

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