Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1099 Collections and/or Records:
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Speeches: speech notes (some by WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty) and other material., 30 Mar 1940 - 01 Oct 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/144
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's broadcast (30 March, BBC) entitled "A hideous state of alarm and menace" on the fate of the neutral nations, German atrocities, particularly in Poland, and wishing to avoid conflict with the Soviet Union. Also includes various cuttings reporting the speech. Part published: Complete Speeches VI, pp 6199-201.Notes for WSC's broadcast (19 May, BBC) entitled "Arm yourselves and be ye men of valour" on the war situation in France and the formation of the coalition government,...
Dates:
30 Mar 1940 - 01 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Sub-Series
Subsidies and rents, October-December 1956; and papers relating to Sandys' visits to Berlin, Russia and the Normandy beaches, 1956, 1955 - 1956
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 5/40
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Dates:
1955 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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"The defence of freedom and peace", 16 Oct 1938
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/132/61-78
Scope and Contents
Final version of speaking notes for WSC's broadcast to the United States ([United States National Broadcasting Company]) on the need for the democracies, including the United States, to unite against the dictatorships. At the start of the speech WSC says that it may not be possible to broadcast to the US in future because "The stations are closing down; the lights are going out". Issues covered include: the consequences of the "abandonment" of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and...
Dates:
16 Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"The defence of freedom and peace", 16 Oct 1938
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/132/112-113
Scope and Contents
Two copies of a pamphlet including the text of WSC's broadcast to the United States (16 October 1938, [United States National Broadcasting Company]) on the need for the democracies, including the United States, to unite against the dictatorships. At the start of the speech WSC says that it may not be possible to broadcast to the US in future because "The stations are closing down; the lights are going out". Issues covered include: the consequences of the "abandonment" of Czechoslovakia...
Dates:
16 Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"The Few", 20 Aug 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/141A/37-68
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's speech covering subjects including: reflections on the differences between the present war and the First World War including weapons, casualty numbers and the increased importance of science and strategy; Britain's aptitude for the new forms of warfare; the decision to enforce a strict blockade on Germany, Italy and France and food supplies and distribution in Europe; review of the war situation; air warfare and the Battle of Britain including the threat of German bombing,...
Dates:
20 Aug 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
"The German Chancellor and the Outbreak of War", 1917
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/92
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes: JWHM's early work as a student, lecturer, classicist and historian; numerous articles and book reviews; several works on Bismarck and 19th century Germany; JWHM's writing on South Africa in association with 1st Lord Loch; entries for the Encyclopaedia Britannica; articles on Germany in the First World War and the Versailles Treaty; material on the posthumous publication of JWHM's "Studies in Diplomatic History"; some articles by Kenneth Headlam-Morley, mainly relating to the Saar...
Dates:
1917
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
"The German Colonial Claim": correspondence, 1938 - 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/54
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with: W and R Chambers Limited, publishers; J. Rousseaux on corrections to the text (3); E. Landsberg, Financial Editor of the Cape Times, South Africa; Sir Frank Fox, journalist and 'ghost writer', reporting to LSA on progress with the manuscript (5).
Also includes Fox's outline of the book and LSA's detailed comments on Fox's manuscript.
Dates:
1938 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
"The Master Swingers of Nuremberg", 1946 - 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 100
Scope and Contents
Typescript draft of an article by KW [Kenneth White, journalist] giving eye witness account of Nuremberg trial including: transport and accommodation; organisation of the trial; evidence; and impressions of the former Nazi leaders on trial including [Hermann] Goering, [Rudolf] Hess, [Joachim von] Ribbentrop, [Wilhelm Keitel], [Julius] Streicher. Ends with the prediction "When the final gong sounds in the death-struggle of the Hitler Saga, assuredly some of its masters will swing at...
Dates:
1946 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
Fonds
The Papers of Captain Godfrey Alexander French
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GDFR
Scope and Contents
The papers cover Captain French's career from 1930, when he attended the R.N. Staff College at Greenwich, until his retirement in 1978.
Dates:
1914 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Felix Deutsch
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNDT
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of: a translation of Deutsch's autobiography; copies of letters from Lili Deutsch to her brother Paul Kahn; copies of letters between Deutsch and his brother-in-law in the United States, the banker Otto Kahn and other members of their families on subjects including Allied and German war aims leading up to the First World War; copies of AEG publications on Deutsch.
Dates:
1896 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PIRI
Scope and Contents
The papers include: papers relating to GPR's anthropological and other scientific work, including involvement in eugenics; papers relating to his political activities, including letters to and from the British Union of Fascists, mostly concerning his 1935 run for Parliament; and large number of documents related to GPR’s 18B detention and internment.
Dates:
1831 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Group Captain Malcolm Christie
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHRS
Scope and Contents
The core of the collection consists of the series of reports by Christie and his manuscript notes, mainly in German, the reports of his informants and his letters to Vansittart. The papers of more general interest are Christie's notes of interviews with various notable Nazis, particularly Goering, information about the German resistance and German peace workers in 1939-1940. There are also large quantities of related press cuttings. The obvious gaps are in the records of Christie's relations...
Dates:
1928 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Harold Ingrams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/IGMS
Scope and Contents
Papers mainly comprising official reports, minutes and correspondence about the British Control Commission in Germany, 1945-6.
Dates:
1943 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Horace Finlayson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLYN
Scope and Contents
Comprising diaries and correspondence
Dates:
1921 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of John Burns Hynd
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HYND
Scope and Contents
The collection includes material relating to Hynd's spell as Minister for Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent life-long interest in Germany and in promoting good relations between Germany and Great Britain. There are several files of papers in the collection illustrating this aspect of his career as well as his involvement in other aspects of foreign relations.
Having started his career as a railway clerk in his home town of Perth, Hynd kept some of his early...
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (HYND 7/19/2, part 1 of 2) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Kilmuir
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KLMR
Scope and Contents
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, speeches, articles, personal papers, press cuttings and photographs.
With press cuttings relating to his father, William Thompson Fyfe, 1906-7.
Dates:
1907 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Professor Max Born
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.
Dates:
1811 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Donald MacDougall
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MACD
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to economic policy, including correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, speeches, a draft autobiography and photographs.
Dates:
1928 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Frank Roberts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT
Scope and Contents
The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre comprises Roberts' personal papers and includes: correspondence and press cuttings relating to Roberts' diplomatic career and postings to Bonn and Moscow; material relating to international organisations (NATO, the British Atlantic Committee and the Atlantic Treaty Association); annotated proofs of Roberts' book "Dealing with Dictators" (published in 1991); correspondence between Roberts and his parents; photographs; and articles and papers by...
Dates:
1901 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir William Bull
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL
Scope and Contents
BULL 1 - 10 is made up of diaries kept faithfully by William (or Paul, as he was known to his family and close friends) Bull from 1878, when he was thirteen years old until some three weeks before his death in January 1931. The earlier diaries were illustrated and all the diaries are interleaved with letters, press cuttings, menus, theatre programmes and photographs relating to the events they describe. Twice yearly, in June and December, Bull compiled a 'Retrospect' of the past six months...
Dates:
1862 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR, CHUR and CHAQ
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into three sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR), with some additional material (CHAQ). Together, the three sets of papers cover the following major areas:
Personal (CHAR 1, CHUR 1 and CHAQ 1/1 and 2/1), 1884-1965
The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his...
Dates:
The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Saunders Family Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SAUN
Scope and Contents
The Saunders Family Papers fall into three main groups: the correspondence of David Hogg Saunders; the letters and papers of his son, George, whose hostility towards German militarism is reflected in his private letters, providing a great deal of information about life and manners in contemporary Berlin; and a variety of letters and miscellaneous documents relating to members of the Saunders family. This third group comprises the correspondence between George’s sister, Margaret, his son,...
Dates:
1805 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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"The supremacy of the navy", 10 Feb 1912
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/43/41-42
Scope and Contents
Article from the Times reporting WSC's visit to Glasgow and relaying the text of WSC's speech [WSC's first major speech as First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval defence, to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 Feb 1912 [Glasgow, Scotland]. Notes that during the visit Annie Grieg of the Suffrage Union smashed the glass of a car she mistakenly thought WSC was travelling in. WSC's speech covered subjects including: the strength of the Royal Navy and plans for the future; the British and German...
Dates:
10 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"The Tragedy of Europe", 19 Sep 1946
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/8/145-162
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (19 September, University of Zurich [Switzerland]) entitled "The Tragedy of Europe" including: the need for a “United States of Europe” and the Council of Europe; reflection on the roles of the United Nations and the League of Nations; the need to act quickly to avoid another war and for faith on the part of the peoples of Europe; warnings about the spread of information about nuclear weapons; and the importance of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, the United...
Dates:
19 Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"The trouble is he gets hungry again", 12 [Oct] 1938
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/355/42
Scope and Contents
Cartoon by Shoemaker showing three scenes: Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] rushing to feed a bowl of food labelled 'Czechs' to a roaring Nazi tiger; the tiger sleeping as Chamberlain walks away mopping his brow with bouquets of flowers are thrown to him; and finally the Nazi tiger roaring at a shocked Chamberlain for more food. Newspaper cutting.
Dates:
12 [Oct] 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open