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Collection Overview
Title: World War II Pamphlets, Ephemera, and Propaganda, 1936-1945
Predominant Dates:1939-1945
ID: 01/01/MSS00109
Extent: 1.1 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: This collection consists of seven series: 1.) Propaganda, 2.) Secretary of War Information Office Pamphlets, 3.) Miscellaneous Pamphlets, 4.) "A Week of the War" Transcripts, 5.) Typescript Documents, 6.) Newspapers and other miscellaneous publications, and 7.) Oversized Materials.
Date Acquired: 00/00/2009
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish;Castilian, Italian, Danish, Portuguese, Greek,Modern(1453-), Dutch;Flemish
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection is comprised of pamphlets, leaflets, and other documents relating to the Second World War. Box 1 consists of propaganda published in Vichy France throughout the German occupation. Box 2 contains informational pamphlets distributed in various languages by the United States Secretary of War Information Office concerning some military battles and the United States Armed Forces. Box 2 also includes miscellaneous pamphlets covering various topics related to the war. Box 3 consists of three sections: the first section contains transcripts published by the United States Office of Government Reports summarizing the events of World War 2 each week throughout 1942; the second section contains various informational typescript documents in English; the third section of Box 3 contains single sheet newspaper documents and other miscellaneous publications. Box 4 contains miscellaneous oversized materials.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Access Restrictions:
Open to researchers.
Use Restrictions:
This collection is the physical property of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, may reside with the materials' creator(s) or their heirs. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library's reproduction and publication policies are available here. The library welcomes requests for reproductions made from works in our collections, though restrictions may apply to certain materials. Please contact the library with any questions.
Acquisition Source:
Library backlog
Finding Aid Revision History:
Created by Heather Wiegert in 2022.
Revised by Nicole Connell on January 9, 2025.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Propaganda],
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Series 2: Secretary of War Information Office Pamphlets],
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Series 3: Miscellaneous Pamphlets],
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Series 4: "A Week of the War" Transcripts],
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Series 5: Typescript Documents],
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Series 6: Newspapers and other miscellaneous publications],
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Series 7: Oversized Materials],
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All]
- Series 1: Propaganda
- Box 1
- Folder 1: A- Bé- Cé- Daire : à l’usage des petits enfants qui apprennent à lire et des grandes personnes qui ne comprennent pas encore le française…, Undated
- Folder 2: Abriss der Geschichte der Bewegung, 1936
- Folder 3: Actualités Allemandes No. 54, 1942
- Folder 4: Actualités Allemandes No. 57, 1942
- Folder 5: Actualités Allemandes No. 3, 1943
- Folder 6: [Affiche Rouge] Des Libérateurs? La libération par l’armée du crime!, undated
- Folder 7: Ah! Si on était neutres, undated
- Folder 8: Bobards passes et Bobards actuels, undated
- Folder 9: C’est la France Qu’il S’agit de Sauver, 1944
- Folder 10: Ce n’est pas vrai!, undated
- Folder 11: Défendons l’Empire!, undated
- Folder 12: Droles D’Alliés, undated
- Folder 13: du Travail assuré de l’Argent par votre salaire élevé du Bonheur pour votre famille, undated
- Folder 14: En Avant Soldats Du Christ…, 1945
- Folder 15: Est-ce la Guerre contre l’Allemagne?, undated
- Folder 16: Est-ce la Guerre contre l’Allemagne?, undated
- Folder 17: Extrait du Numéro Spécial du Cahier Jaune l’Angleterre et les Juifs, undated
- Folder 18: [French cartoon about Churchill and the liberation] Avant que ne tombent les feuilles…, undated
- Folder 19: Il était une tois…, undated
- Folder 20: Il Faut Choisir, undated
- Folder 21: Il est des morts qu’il faut qu’on tue deux fois, undated
- Folder 22: Ils ne nous le font pas dire, undated
- Folder 23: ’Ils’ sont venus!, undated
- Folder 24: Invasion Terre Brulée…, 1944
- Folder 25: Judeo-Ploutocratie et Bolchevisme, undated
- Folder 26: L’Aventure de Celestin Tournevis, undated
- Folder 27: L’heure de la liberation va sonner…, undated
- Folder 28: La Forêt Macabre de Katyn, undated
- Folder 29: La France peut-elle se nourrir?, undated
- Folder 30: La guerre des ondes, undated
- Folder 31: La Révolution Socialiste, undated
- Folder 32: Le dinguallisme, undated
- Folder 33: Le pain, la paix, la liberté!, undated
- Folder 34: Les journaux ne dissent pas la vérite, undated
- Folder 35: Les Pillards de l’Epargne Française, undated
- Folder 36: [Reproduction of letter between two women, concerning women’s duties to France], undated
- Folder 37: Juif, undated
- Folder 38: Nous Et Les Brittanniques envahissons la France!, undated
- Folder 39: Paysan de France!, undated
- Folder 40: Photographie de la letter du Gal Giraud au Maréchal, 1942
- Two copies.
- Folder 41: Pour le Pain Contre la Grève, undated
- Folder 42: Pourquoi a-t-on condamné la Franc-Maçonnerie?, undated
- Folder 43: Pourquoi les nationaux ne peuvent souhaiter le succès des communists, undated
- Folder 44: Pourquoi?..., undated
- Folder 45: Quelques-unes des realizations sociales de l’Allemagne, 1943
- Two copies.
- Folder 46: Sachons surmonter le lourd heritage de méfiance..., undated
- Folder 47: Terre de France, undated
- Folder 48: Terrorisme juif, undated
- Folder 49: Toi qui reviens de ton Stalag…, undated
- Folder 50: Travailleurs Français en Allemagne, 1944
- Folder 51: Vous êtes prévenus! Des bombardements massifs vous attendent, undated
- Folder 52: Youpino, undated
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Propaganda],
[
Series 2: Secretary of War Information Office Pamphlets],
[
Series 3: Miscellaneous Pamphlets],
[
Series 4: "A Week of the War" Transcripts],
[
Series 5: Typescript Documents],
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Series 6: Newspapers and other miscellaneous publications],
[
Series 7: Oversized Materials],
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All]
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