World War II Pamphlets, Ephemera, and Propaganda, 1936-1945 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: World War II Pamphlets, Ephemera, and Propaganda, 1936-1945

Predominant Dates:1939-1945

ID: 01/02/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

World War, 1939-1945

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

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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

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

Series 2: Secretary of War Information Office Pamphlets

Box 2

Folder 1: A Medalha de Honra, undated

Spanish.

Folder 2: Agli Italiani, undated

Italian.

Folder 3: Alas de América, undated

Spanish.

Folder 4: [World Assistance: Report of the UNRRA conference on assistance and rehabilitation]

Item 1: Assistência Mundial: Um relatório da conferência da UNRRA sôbre assistência e reabilitação, undated

Portuguese.

Item 2: Per l’assistenza mondiale: Rapporto dell’U.N.R.R.A., undated

Italian.

Folder 5: [Bombers of the United States]

Item 1: Bombarderos i esados, undated

Portuguese.

Item 2: Bombarderos grandes, undated

Spanish.

Folder 6: Come funziona il Governo degli Stati Uniti, undated

Italian.

Folder 7: [How to Recognize the United States Armed Forces]

Item 1: Come riconoscere le Forze Armate degli Stati Uniti, undated

Italian.

Item 2: Woran man die Streitkraefte der Vereinigten Staaten erkennt, undated

German.

Item 3: ΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΚΡΙΤΙΚΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΗΝΩΜ. ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΩΝ, undated

Greek.

Folder 8: Hommage des Nations Unies à la France, undated

French.

Folder 9: La Battaille D’Afrique, undated

French.

Folder 10: [The Battle of the Atlantic]

Item 1: La battaglia dell’Atlantico, undated

Italian.

Item 2: La Campaña del Atlántico, undated

Spanish.

Folder 11: Lo Strumento Della Vittoria Finale, undated

Italian.

Folder 12: Oplysninger om U.S.A., undated

Danish.

Folder 13: Tarawa

Item 1: Tarawa, undated

Danish.

Item 2: Tarawa, undated

Portuguese.

Series 3: Miscellaneous Pamphlets

Box 2

Folder 14: British Official Publications: A Selection of Recent Publications, 1939

Folder 15: De bestorming door de lucht, 1941

Folder 16: Underground Poland Speaks: With a foreword by P.J. Noel-Baker, 1941

Folder 17: United States and Japan, 1942

Folder 18: Das neue französische Luftschutz-Recht, 1944

Folder 19: Jamás Olvidaremos, 1945

Two copies.

Folder 20: Deutsche Konzentrations — und Gefangenenlager Was die amerikanischen und britischen Armeen vorfanden April 1945, undated

Pamphlet describing what the Allied Forces found while advancing through Germany. Specifically concerning concentration camps and other Holocaust atrocities. Photographs with accompanying text and descriptions in German.

Folder 21: Dependents Guide to Japan, undated

Series 4: "A Week of the War" Transcripts

Office of Government Reports Division – Office of War Information: Washington D.C.

Box 3

Folder 1: “A Week of the War”, 1942 May 30

Folder 2: “A Week of the War” (No. 495), 1942 June 26

Folder 3: “A Week of the War”, 1942 June 27

Folder 4: “A Week of the War”, 1942 July 4

Folder 5: “A Week of the War”, 1942 July 18

Folder 6: “A Week of the War”, 1942 July 25

Folder 7: “A Week of the War”, 1942 August 8

Folder 8: “A Week of the War”, 1942 August 15

Folder 9: “A Week of the War”, 1942 August 22

Folder 10: “A Week of the War”, 1942 August 29

Folder 11: “A Week of the War”, 1942 September 5

Folder 12: “A Week of the War”, 1942 September 12

Folder 13: “A Week of the War”, 1942 September 19

Folder 14: “A Week of the War”, 1942 October 3

Folder 15: “A Week of the War”, 1942 October 24

Folder 16: “A Week of the War”, 1942 October 31

Folder 17: “A Week of the War”, 1942 November 14

Folder 18: “A Week of the War”, 1942 November 21

Folder 19: “A Week of the War”, 1942 November 28

Folder 20: “A Week of the War”, 1942 December 12

Folder 21: “A Week of the War”, 1942 December 19

Series 5: Typescript Documents

Box 3

Folder 22: Germany Exiled in France: The Testimony of a German Refugee by Ernst-Erich Noth, 1939

Folder 23: The Post-War Economic Aims of France and England, 1939

Folder 24: German Propaganda and French Information: Excerpt from a broadcast by Jean Giraudoux on November 25th 1939, 1939 November 25

Folder 25: D.F.B. Informations – Zentrale: No Favoritism, 1940

Folder 26: Transcript of Shortwave Broadcast – ‘The Chief’  by Gustav Siegfried Eins

Item 1: Record 07072, 06319, 1942 August 1

Item 2: Record 07528, 1942 August 3

Folder 27: Principal Accessions. July, 1942 Non-Official Publications, 1942 July

British Information Service.

Folder 28: Graphic Charts Depicting Trends in State Welfare Institutions and Agencies: In the Last World War and this War, 1943

Folder 29: Notes from the American Colony in Paris: By a Member of the Colony, undated

Folder 30: French Women in the War, undated

Folder 31: Questions Frequently Asked on the Nuremberg Trials, undated

Folder 32: Czechoslovakia Since Munich : By an Eye-Witness by Marya A. Tolstoy-Mansvetov, undated

Advertisement.

Folder 33: War prisoners’ aid of the young men’s Christian associations service to “men of science – prisoners of war”

Lists of books requested for the program.

Item 1: List E-1 Standard list in humanities: General Works – Polygraphy, undated

Item 2: List E-1 Standard list in humanities: The Middle Ages, undated

Item 3: List E-1 Standard list in humanities: Americana, undated

Item 4: List E-1 Standard list in humanities: Social Sciences, undated

Series 6: Newspapers and other miscellaneous publications

Box 3

Folder 34: To the Athletes and Sportsmen of the World by To the Athletes and Sportsmen of the World., 1940

Organizing Committee for the XIIth Olympic Games.

Folder 35: Falken Press Newspapers

Item 1: Who profits by War? by Heinrich Kessemeier (No. 1202), undated

Item 2: Danzig’s Answer to the War-mongers by Heinrich Kessemeier (No. 1222), undated

Item 3: Peace or War of Destruction? (No. 1262), undated

Item 4: Politics and Phraseology (No. 1272), undated

Two copies.

Item 5: What is ‘Cant’? (No. 1322), undated

Folder 36: Malaya, A Partnership of East and West, 1940

Two copies.

Folder 37: Britain’s Military Forces, 1941

Folder 38: Towards the Peace, undated

British Information Services.

Folder 39: Le Pape a Parlé, undated

Folder 40: The Inn at the Defile!, undated

Folder 41: What is the British Empire?, 1940

British Library of Information.

Folder 42: The Fifth Column : How… Where… When…, 1940

American Jewish Congress.

Series 7: Oversized Materials

Box 4

Folder 1

Item 1: Il Combat Avec Les Hommes Libres, undated

Item 2: Votre ferraille fera de l’Acier des Canons la Victoire : Récupérez les ferrailles by Ministère de l’Armement, undated

Item 3: Norway and the War byEinar Haugen, 1940

Item 4: Sir Angus Fletcher to Retire as Director, 1941

British Library of Information.

Flat File 1

Item 1: Submarines, Torpedoes, and Mines Publication (No. 34), undated

Item 2: Wessen Schuld, undated

Gift: Prof. H.B. Adelmann 1946 Feburary 7.