The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War
by
Astrid M. Eckert
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war crimes trials and published under Allied auspices to document the German road to war. In 1949, the West...