LIDDELL: 9/24/1
Manuscript of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, partially in typescript including draft of subject index and some corrected galley proof. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/2
Typescript of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart with title 'German generals' corrected to 'Hitler's generals,' annotated 'printer's copy of typescript'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/3
Galley proof of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart
LIDDELL: 9/24/4
Preface for The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart in manuscript and typescript with list of acknowledgements, draft of dedication; file includes correspondence between Liddell Hart and Wing Cdr Norman Roffey; Air Cdre Percy Robert Clifford Groves, RAF Volunteer Reserve and Barry Sullivan.
LIDDELL: 9/24/5
Notes and queries by Liddell Hart relating to his book The other side of the hill, with correspondence including Reginald William (Chester) Wilmot and G R Atkinson. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/6
Notes by Liddell Hart and additional research files for revised and enlarged 1951 edition of The other side of the hill including notes entitled, 'Differences between the original edition and the revised and enlarged edition of 1951'; 'Fresh evidence since publication'; galley proofs of 'Was the German army prepared for war in 1939' by German Gen Siegfried Westphal for journal The English Review Magazine sent 21 Oct 1949; file including extracts from correspondence with German generals including Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, Chief of the German General Staff; Col-Gen Franz Halder, Chief of Army General Staff, 1938-1942; Gen Hasso E von Manteuffel, Commander-in-Chief 5 Panzer Army; Gen Frido von Senger und Etterlin; file also includes two manuscript maps annotated by German Gen Günther Blumentritt, 31 Jan 1948, with additional manuscript notes showing (1) Northeastern France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Western Germany, annotated 'Deutsche Lage am 14.9.1944 (German position on 14 Sep 1944)' and (2) 'Deutsche Lage um Metz am 14.9.44 (German position around Metz on 14 Sep 1944)'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/7
Revisions and additions for revised and enlarged 1951 edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, manuscript and typescript of additional chapters. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/8
Galley proof for revised and enlarged 1951 edition The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/9
Cassell and Co, publishers, correspondence with Liddell Hart relating his book The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, correspondents including Sir (Walter) Newman Flower; Desmond Flower; H Aubrey Gentry, business manager; Arthur S Hayward; E A Boyce; H Ryder; John N Daniels, Publishing Manager; Clarence A Paget and E S Harper; also Capt James S Edgar, Business manager, Military Review, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas USA; file includes additions and corrections to book in manuscript and typescript, 'addenda to maps', and 'table of the German high command'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/10
Correspondence with Dr Walter Amstutz of Verlag Amstutz, Herdeg and Co, Zürich Switzerland, publishers of German edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, published as Jetzt dürfen sie reden (literally, Now they may speak); file includes Liddell Hart's 'Note on the publication, by Amstutz, of the German edition'; other correspondence including Patricia Mudd, of Amstutz Verlag; Desmond Flower, Cassell and Co; German Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar; Peter J Tischler-Terry and Sheila M Watson of David Higham Associates Limited; also letter to Desmond Flower from H P Schmoller; file also including notes correcting German translation of the book and information on earnings received from the book. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/11
Correspondence relating to foreign editions (excluding German) of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart; correspondents including Bryen Gentry, Arthur S Hayward and John Sundell, Cassell and Co; M Aguilar, editor of Librero (Madrid, Spain); Éditions Payot (Paris, France); Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur (Stockholm, Sweden); Dr A De Jonghe (Bruges, Belgium); Innes Rose of John Farquharson; Dr Rudolf Oldenbourg, Leibniz Verlag (Munich, Germany); Thelma M Harris; Hans D Von Arnim (Hannover, Germany); Dr L Schulte Strathaus, of Der Spiegel (Hannover, Germany); Gordon F Muirhead; Vice Adm Robert Witthoeft-Emden (Hamburg, German); and Paul Wollenhagen (Essen, Germany); file includes' Special preface to the Danish edition' and 'The mistake of a single man gave victory to Hitler in 1940' by HelgeKnudsen, annotated 'translation from the Berlingske Aftenavis [Copenhagen, Denmark]', 29 Jul 1948. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/12
Correspondence relating to Panther paperback edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart (1956), correspondents including Clarence A Paget, Cassell and Co; M E Barber, Society of Authors; Gordon Landesborough and A H Earney Managing editors, Panther books; file includes some corrections and additions for text of Panther edition. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/13
Copy of 1948 edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart with additions for 1951 edition included in typescript, with manuscript corrections. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/14
Copy of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart (Panther book, London, 1956), annotated to indicate additions and revisions made for 1948 and 1951 editions. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/15
Notes containing comments by German generals on The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, including Gen Hasso E von Manteufel, Col-Gen Heinz Guderian, Walther Warlimont and Col von Lindeiner gennant von Walau, name annotated 'a regular officer, Silesian aristocrat, age 65' (1945). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/16
Correspondence relating to the first edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart (1948), correspondents including Th. Rumpel, with cutting 'The German generals oblige' letter to the editor of Manchester Guardian by Rumpel, 21 May 1948; file including cutting of letter to the editor of Manchester Guardian by Liddell Hart, 29 Apr 1948, commenting on review of book on 22 Apr 1948 (included); letter of Liddell Hart to Maj Gen Eedson Louis Millard Burns commenting on review by Burns of the book in Ottawa Evening New, Ottawa, Canada, 11 Sep 1948, included; German Gen Frido von Senger und Etterlin; German Gen Hasso E von Manteuffel; Brig James Archibald Dunboyne Langhorne; Brig Henry Beveridge Latham; Brig Guy Elland Carne Rasch; C C Mackintosh; Alfred G Bailey, University of New Brunswick, Canada; J W Woodward; J M Drew; Joachim Arendt; Cyril Ray, of The Sunday Times; James Bone; V H Collins; Andre L'Hoist with sketch map of route of 16 Panzer corps, May 1940; Ernst B Dannemann with copy of Soldat im Volk (Aug 1958) referring to Liddell Hart's book; Dr Sydney Jessen; Craig Biddle, Jr; letters by Liddell Hart to editors of the following publication, The New Yorker, Time magazine and The Herald Tribune, New York USA. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/17
Correspondence concerning revised and enlarged 1951 edition of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, correspondents including Dr Walter Amstutz, publisher of German edition with corrections list; Maj Gen William Henry Stratton, Commandant, Joint Services Staff College; Brig Peter Hugh de Havilland; Alan Pryce-Jones, of Times Literary Supplement; Noel Barber, editor The Continental Daily Mail, Paris, France; James Rose, of The Observer; E Bernard Morgan; Norman Robson, Westminister Press Limited; Devere Allen, of Worldover Press; Walter Lippmann, of The New York Herald Tribune and US Capt William G Bell, editor Armor magazine, Washington DC, USA. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/18
Press reviews of The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart including newspaper and journal cuttings and correspondence; reviews including 'The way of the world', by Kees van Hoek Irish Times, 24 Aug 1948; 'What the soldier said,' by Samuel Henry Fergus Johnston Spectator, 18 Jun 1948; 'The secret of Dunkirk' by Hayter Preston New Cavalcade, 8 May 1948; 'Did Hitler save Britain?' by Clive Turnbull The Herald, Melbourne, Australia, 7 Aug 1948; 'A military historian' by F A Ridley The Socialist Leader, 21 Aug 1948; 'The war through German eyes', by Maj Eric William Sheppard The Guardian, 18 Jun 1948; 'No party-line Nazis' by David Baumgardt Saturday Review of Literature, New York City, New York, 16 Oct 1948; 'Hitler's generals speak their minds' by Hanson W Baldwin New York Times Book Review, 17 Oct 1948; review by US Col George C Reinhardt Military Review, Mar 1952; review by Maj Max Van Rossum Daum Air University Quarterly Review, Montgomery, Alabama USA, Winter 1948; 'The Defeated' Time, 25 Oct 1948; 'Now it is told: the inside story of German war plans...', Newsweek, 9 Aug 1948; review by Dorothy Canfield Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep 1948; advertisement for French edition entitled, Les généraux allemands parlent, translated by Lola Tranec, Dec 1948; review article Die Reise Illustrierte, Dec 1950, including cover portrait of Liddell Hart and note with partial translation of article; 'Jetz dürfer sie reden, Englisches urteil über deutsches soldatentum' by Arthur Boehm-Tettelbach Lübecker Nachrichten, 28 Dec 1951, with typescript translation as 'British verdict on German military profession'; 'Chronique historique' (in French) review by Jeanne Gaillard La Pensée, Jan 1950; 'Die Strategie einer diktatur' by Dr George Tzschirner Der Notweg, May 1950 with typescript translation entitled 'Strategy of a dictator'; Der zweite weltkrieg in büchern' Christ und Welt, Stuttgart, Germany, 19 Jan 1950 with typescript English translation; 'Die deutsche wehrmacht im zweiten weltkrieg' Der Turmwart, Zürich, Switzerland, Nov/Dec 1949 with typescript English translation; review from Thurgauer Zeitung, Frauenfeld, Switzerland, 15 Oct 1949 with typescript English translation; Der Fürstenländer, Gossau (St Gallen), Switzerland, 1 Jan 1950 with typescript English translation; Der Bund, 11 Nov 1949 with typescript English translation; Allgemeiner Schweizer Militär-Zeitschrift, Frauenfeld, Switzerland, Nov 1949 with typescript English translation; 'Menzogne e verita nella storia della guerra' by Giovanni Messe Il Tempo di Milano, Milan, Italy 26 Aug 1949; also typescript translations of other foreign reviews from journals including L'Armée-La Nation (translated from French), 1 Oct 1951; 'The generals of the defeat' by Niels J Mürer Aftenposten (translated from Norwegian), Oslo, Norway, 16 Nov 1949; 'The German generals break their silence' by Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell (translated from Danish) Berlingske Tidende Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 Dec 1949; 'Contemporary history - as it fascinates' by Dr Hans-Joachim Kausch (translated from German) Die Welt, 31 Oct 1949; 'Gentlemen from the German high command' by Eigil Steinmetz (translated from Danish) Nationaltidende (Copenhagen, Denmark, annotated 'ultra-Conservative', 22 Oct 1949 and typescript entitled, 'Short review given over Radio Munich,' 15 Oct 1949; correspondents including, Alfred Powell Wadsworth, editor Manchester Guardian; Professor Henry Steele Commager; F M Inwood, Westminister Press Limited; R E Bennett, also 'Better manuals' letter by Liddell Hart to editor Infantry Journal, 12 Mar 1949 in typescript and as published, in cut version; file also includes reviews of 1973 reprint edition with letter to Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart from Maj Gen James Louis Moulton. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/19
Page proof of The Rommel Papers edited by Liddell Hart, with the assistance of Lucie-Maria Rommel and Manfred Erwin Rommel, wife and son of FM Rommel and General Fritz Bayerlein, translated by Col Paul A Findlay, based upon the papers of German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel with manuscript corrections. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/20
Papers associated with German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel including manuscript in German containing 'account written by Feldmarschall (Field Marshal) Rommel as a conception for his historical record in 1941' given by Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of FM Rommel; maps of North Africa drawn by Rommel in 1942; newspaper cutting of 'Rommel wouldn't be so active now - if he had used our tanks the right way' by Liddell Hart Daily Mail, 23 Jan 1942 with German translation said by Manfred to have been studied by Rommel; extracts of correspondence from Rommel to his wife and son, Manfred, Jan 1941-Jul 1944 in typescript, translated into English; telegram in German received by Rommel telling him of capture of Col David Stirling, Special Air Service (SAS), North Africa, 28 Jan 1943; article in English in typescript concerning the book Infanterie greift an (Infantry attacks) by Rommel (1937), and notes to 'Rommel's pre-war lectures, in German illustrated with line drawings. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/21
Liddell Hart's foreword and editorial note for The Rommel papers edited by him in manuscript and typescript. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/22
Notes on Rommel, correspondence and press cuttings collected by Liddell Hart for editing The Rommel papers and afterwards; notes including manuscript notes entitled, 'Final questions and notes on Rommel papers,' Apr 1952; 'Questions to clear up - Norman Sims,' 30 Apr 1952; 'Further questions for Manfred Rommel (and General Bayerlein)' 6 May 1952; 'Verdicts on Rommel'; 'Extracts from Rommel's Papers' including 'El Alamein'; 'The rules of desert war'; 'The battles of 1942' and 'Before El Alamein'; typescript entitled, 'New light of Rommel' (cancelling title "The hysteria of Rommel") by C Taylor; 'Interview with Le Figaro', a transcript of interview of Liddell Hart'; typed note entitled, 'Translation, extract from "Invasion 1944" by Hans Speidel', 'Rommel's order for beach defences,' 11 Jul 1944 as commander German Army group B, translated into English by 79 Armoured Div; 'Answers on two historical points' from Gen Günther Blumentritt, 16 Jun 1948; 'Field Marshal Rommel's measures to counter the invasion' by German Vice Adm Friedrich Ruge, Apr 1946 and 'How Rommel met his death, an eye-witness account' translated from a talk on Paris Radio; correspondence including Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of German FM Rommel; Mark Bonham Carter, Ronald J Politzer, Collins; Col Paul A Findlay, translator of The Rommel papers; Collin Delavaud, Paris, France; G R 'Toby' Atkinson; Brig George Fothergill Ellenberger; Lt Col William Benjamin Robert Neave-Hill, Cabinet office, Historical section; Norman L Brodeur, East Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Jean Bisgambiglia, Ajaccio, Corsica (in French); Ronald Lewin; Brig Desmond Young; Dr Hans Speidel; file includes copies of correspondence between Mr W M James, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA and German former army staff including German Col-Gen Franz Halder, Chief of the Army General Staff 1938-1942, 30 Apr 1963, in German with attached English translation; German Lt Gen Alfred Gause, in German; German Gen Siegfried Westphal, in German and German Gen Walter Warlimont, in English; cuttings including 'On a road in Normandy - 17 July 1944' by Richard A David Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Aug 1961 including nine photographs with captions used to illustrate the article; 'Rommel, a new picture by Geoffrey Cox Leader, 7 Jul 1945; 'Rommel's picture is by Monty's desk' Daily Express, 17 Oct 1944; 'Rommel wounded, German prisoner's report' Sunday Times, 30 jul 1944; 'Portrait of a Nazi general' by Ralph McCarthy Chronicle, 31 Jan 1942; ' The Rommel legend' by Capt Harvey A DeWeerd Infantry Journal, Jul 1943; 'History's most overrated general' by Richard Hanser Saga, May [1955]; 'Erwin Rommel, a study in command' Armor, Sep-Oct 1960; 'The Liddell Hart papers' B A Young Punch, 13 May 1953; 'Rommel's men talk' Picture Post, 6 Oct 1951 and 'The end of Marshal Rommel' by William Harlan Hale Harpers, Oct 1948. 1 file and 9 photographs
LIDDELL: 9/24/23
Correspondence with Mark Bonham Carter, Ronald J Politzer, William Alexander Roy Collins, S P Cottey, Sarah Collins, Michael Alexander and A D Maclean, Collins, publishers, relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart including details of agreement with Rommel family and details of financial receipts; file also including correspondence with FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, First Earl Alexander of Tunis; Brig George Herbert Clifton; Lucie-Maria Rommel, wife of FM Rommel; Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of FM Rommel; John Freeman; Desmond Young; Charles Eade; H L Spooner and Robert Jackson of Illustrated; Maj Tadashi Kojo; Ground Staff Office, Japanese Defense Agency; Col Paul A Findlay, translator of The Rommel papers; F R Steele of Richard Steele and Son, literary, dramatic and film agents; also including note on German Army Group 'B', and advertisement for French edition La guerre sans haine (Paris, Amiot Dumont, 1952). 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/24
Correspondence with Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel and Lucie-Maria Rommel, wife of FM Rommel relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart; the correspondence to Liddell Hart and Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart is mostly in English, some German; with other correspondence including Maj Gen Robert Clive Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman; FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck; Lt Gen Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks; Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Thayer Hobson, USA; Dr Hans Speidel; US Lt Col Louis M Nawrocky, Armor; Scott Bartlett, Editor, McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc, New York, New York USA; Heinrich Schubert, Head of Rommel Archive, Herrlingen bei Ulm, Donau, Germany; David Bruce Pitblado, Principle Private Sectretary to the Prime Minister; German Gen Siegfried Westphal; also including note by Liddell Hart containing 'the story of (FM Rommel's) papers as given me by Manfred Rommel', list of Rommel's manuscript papers, 4 Jun 1952 including sketch maps and diagrams, cutting of photograph of Manfred Rommel and Liddell Hart from Paris Match, 6 Oct 1951 and photograph of 'Rommel's house' on greeting card. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/25
Correspondence with Gen Fritz Bayerlein relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart
LIDDELL: 9/24/26
Correspondence with Col Paul A Findlay, translator of The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart, including 'Man of War' a radio broadcast, 1 May 1953, by Findlay on translating the Rommel papers, in typescript, file including correspondence with Mark Bonham-Carter, Collins, publishers and Manfred Rommel, son of German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/27
Photographs relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart; including note 'captions for illustrations' with correspondence relating to use of photographs including Manfred Rommel, son of German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel; Ronald J Politzer, Gladys Wilber and Michael Alexander, of Collins, publishers; Anthony Colwell, Jonathan Cape, publishers; V Jenkins; Arthur Coleridge, of Reader's Digest; US Capt Arthur M Harris, Infantry, Fort Benning, Georgia USA; J S Cumpston, President, The Rats of Tobruk Association, Canberra City, Australia; Richard D Law, military collector; also newspaper cuttings of published photographs including 'Rommel - the war's ace photographer' and 'I was determined to guard his pictures with my life' by Lucie-Maria Rommel, wife of FM Rommel Illustrated, 18 Apr 1953; 'How Rommel planned to rout the British' by Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck Picture Post, 25 Apr 1953; 'Rommel films his race to the sea' Illustrated, 2 May 1953; 'Rommel meets his prisoners' Illustrated, 9 May 1953 and 'Rommel's album of the desert war' Illustrated, 16 May 1953; photographs include profile of Rommel [on North African coast] with [Italian] submarine in background; Rommel's dummy tanks, Tripolitania, 1941; photograph of temporary bridge captioned 'the La Basseé - canal, and the first bridge of the Seventh armored division' and two photographs of bridges [1940 French campaign] with sketch map of Somme River, Somme canal at Condé Folie near Hangest annotated with positions of French and German troops. 1 file, 5 photographs
LIDDELL: 9/24/28
Correspondence relating to foreign rights for The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart, including correspondence with Charles Clark, editorial department Penguin Books Limited; Mark Bonham-Carter and Ronald J Politzer, Collins, publishers; Evan Thomas, Harper and Brothers, publishers, New York, New York USA; Stewart Richardson, Associate editor, Henry Holt and Company, publishers, New York, New York USA; Helen Everitt, Houghton Mifflin and Co, publishers, New York, New York USA; Eugene Reynal, Harcourt-Brace and Co, publishers, New York, New York USA; Marguerite Scialtiel, Paris, France; Jacques Mordal, Paris, France; Georges Roditi, Amiot-Dumont, publishers, Paris, France with corrected typescript of introduction to the French edition; S M Mulcahy for J Sallebert, London representative, Radiodiffusion et Télévision Françaises with note on 'Brief broadcast on Rommel,' 14 Feb 1953, in English and French; also including an addendum to the memorandum of agreement with Collins for the book, 20 Jan 1953, also including figures on sales and royalties. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/29
Sunday Dispatch serialisation of The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart, newspaper cuttings of series of articles titled 'Rommel's own story' 19 Apr - 21 Jun 1953
LIDDELL: 9/24/30
Correspondence and controversy relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart including agreement or disagreement with Liddell Hart's assessment of Rommel's character; correspondents including Reginald William (Chester) Wilmot; Lt Gen Howard A Craig, USAF, Commandant, National War College, Washington DC, USA; Robert L Biggers, President, Fargo division, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Maj Gen Sir Francis W de Guingand; Rear Adm C R Brown, USN, Commander Carrier Division 6; Stewart Robb, New York, New York USA; US Col Robert F Cocklin, Artillery, Assistant secretary, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, Washington DC, USA; F E Freeman, Malta; Clifford W Lillington, Department National Defence, Quebec City, Canada; Maj Gen Gerald Lloyd Verney; FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck; Sqn Sgt Maj C Horn, The Queen's Bays (2 Dragoon Guards) including note by Liddell Hart 'Comments on points raised by SSM Horn'; Cyril Clemens, International Mark Twain Society, Webster Groves, Missouri USA; M M R Kothawala, Poona, India; Maj Eric William Sheppard; William Clark, of The Observer; German Gen Spiedel, German Legation, London;Thomas A Joy, Book department, Army and Navy Stores Limited; R A Moyes, Sales promotion manager, George Newnes and C Arthur Pearson Limited; Richard Malone; Hansen, Hannen-Verlag, Hamburg, Germany and Marigold Coleman, editor, Jackdaw Publications Limited. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/31
Maps relating to The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart with typescript lists of maps to be included and correspondence including James F Trotter, cartographer; Mark Bonham-Carter, A D Maclean and Ronald J Politzer, Collins, publishers; Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of German FM Rommel; Col Paul A Findlay, translator of The Rommel papers; Tim Raison, of Picture Post and FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck; maps including 18 prepared for printing, some annotated, showing actions of the German Panzer forces in the fall of France 1940, Afrika Korps in the Western Desert campaign in North Africa in 1941-1942 at sites including Northern Tunisia, the Gulf of Sirte, Tobruk, El Alamein, Alam Halfa, Kasserine Pass, the battle of Medenine including Operations BATTLEAXE and CRUSADER and in Normandy prior to D-Day invasion in 1944; also 199 charts and maps, some manuscript, some annotated, mostly in German, some involving the same military actions including plan for costal defence; also three photographs of maps including two by Rommel describing military action around Tobruk and Bardia in 1941 reproduced and described in 'How Rommel planned to rout the British' by Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck Picture Post, 25 Apr 1953, copy in LH9/24/27 and map of Cairo area annotated to show plan of military action for July 1942 which provides basis for redrawn map in same article. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/32
Press reviews of The Rommel papers edited by Liddell Hart and correspondence; with Liddell Hart's notes in typescript including 'The battle rages on, Rommel overrated?' by Robert S Allen New York Post, 17 May 1953; review by US Maj Gen Orlando Ward, Chief of the Historical Div of the Army, Armor, Jul-Aug 1953; 'Portrait of a German general' by Hoffman Nickerson Ordnance, Sep-Oct 1953; review by Maj Gen Eedson Louis Millard Burns Ottawa Journal, Ottawa, Canada, 23 May 1953 and 'Rommel, self-portrait' by Reginald William (Chester) Wilmot transcript of broadcast review for the American Broadcasting Company, 9 Apr 1953; letters to editors by Liddell Hart including 'The Rommel papers' a letter to editor of The Times by Liddell Hart, 25 Apr 1953; letter to the editor of The Birmingham Post, 7 May 1953; 3 letters to Vincent Evans, editor Truth magazine published 8-22 May 1953; press reviews including 'A peculiar squabble' by Carlo Trotter (in Italian with manuscript English translation) Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Bari, Italy, 1 May 1953, 'A book we hid for five years' by Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of FM Rommel, The Bookseller, 28 Mar 1953; 'Enough of him! this fervent friend of the Wehrmacht (i.e. Liddell Hart)' by Milton Schulman Sunday Express, 19 Apr 1953 'All honourable men?' by Reginald William (Chester) Wilmot The Observer, 19 Apr 1953; 'The Rommel myth' by Lt Gen Sir Brian (Gwynne) Horrocks Sunday Times, 19 Apr 1953; 'Rommel, was he a failure?' by Lt Gen Sir Oliver (William Hargreaves) Leese Manchester Evening News, 20 Apr 1953; 'The Rommel papers, a commentary' by US R Adm Henry Effingham Eccles, US Navy (retired) from Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Jun 1954; 'Rommel as man and soldier' a series of 6 articles by Czech Lt Col Ferdinand Otto Miksche Air Force Daily, 25 Jun - 7 Jul 1953; 'The other side of the fence' review of The Rommel papers by FM Sir Claude (John Eyre) Auchinleck National and English Review, Jun 1953; 'Ein militärisches genie' review by Hans-Joachim Kausch in German Die Welt, Essen, 22 Jun 1953 with English translation in typescript; review by Per N Ottestad in Norwegian Aftenpostens, Oslo, Norway, 27 Apr 1953; 'A book by and about Rommel' by Henning Kehler in Danish with English translation Berlingske Tidende, Aften Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 Jun 1953; correspondence including John Freeman, MP; Nigel Nicolson, MP; Frank Whitaker, of Country Life; W B Laurence; Sean Fielding, editor Time and Tide magazine; George Fraser, of Aberdeen Press and Journal; Ewart W Clay, Yorkshire Evening Post; Charles Rowe, Daily Sketch; Ronald J Politzer; Paul P Hutchison, Montreal, Canada; K Gurth, Frederick W Shaw, Jr, of US Army Times; W Busch; K F Pettis, ex-Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade and William Clark. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/33
Liddell Hart comments and reviews of Rommel by Desmond Young (Collins, London, 1950) including copy of the book, note by Liddell Hart listing 'minor corrections' to book; newspaper cuttings including 'Before Rommel in the desert' by Arthur Bryant Sunday Times, 5 Feb 1950; 'Rommel, a flattering and unconvincing portrait' by Malcolm Muggeridge Daily Telegraph, 23 Jan 1950; 2 articles Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper for Picture Post 'Why should we idolise Rommel?,' 18 Mar 1950 and 'The Rommel myth debunked,' 1 Apr 1950 with reply by Brig Desmond Young, 8 Apr 1950 and reply by Trevor-Roper, 29 Apr 1950; 'Rommel, the man behind the legend' by Desmond Young Radio Times, 3 Feb 1950 and 'Tribute to an enemy' by FM Percival Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/34
Press reviews of feature film The Desert Fox about German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel produced by Nunnally Johnson and directed by Henry Hathaway, starring James Mason, screenplay by Nunnally Johnson from book Rommel by Desmond Young, correspondence including letter to editor of Daily Herald by Liddell Hart, published 23 Nov 1951 commenting upon review by Paul Holt (included); other correspondence including Manfred Erwin Rommel, son of FM Rommel; George Campbell Dixon, film critic, Daily Telegraph and James Mason; press reviews including 'I say this film is dangerous' by Milton Shulman Evening Standard, 11 Oct 1951. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/35
Notes and correspondence relating to German film This was our Rommel by Constantin Film to which Liddell Hart agreed to act as military adviser for British viewpoint, including notes on film by Maj Collins Paddock, acting for Liddell Hart; correspondence including Ian R Warren, Managing Director, London and Overseas Film Services Limited and W Barthel, Constantin Filmverleih, Frankfurt, Germany. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/36
Liddell Hart articles on the German generals, including 'Verdict on Germany's military leaders' typed paper (number 2453) headed Atlas Despatches Limited [1948]; 'The German generals talk about the Red Army' Infantry Journal, Washington DC, Mar 1949;'The Red Army as seen by the German generals' The Tank, Oct 1951; 'Les chefs militaires allemands vus par un Anglais' Le Monde Illustré, 30 Mar 1946; typescripts of articles annotated 'Harpers Magazine written 1945' entitled 'The German generals, part 1, Seeckt, Brauchitsch, Halder, Bock, and especially Rommel' and 'The German generals, part 2, Kluge, Model and Rundstedt' [published Feb 1946]; 'Footnote on the German generals' Harpers Magazine, Apr 1946; 'The German generals' typescript article annotated 'New English Review Feb [1946]'; series of 5 articles 'Hitler's generals tell all' Sunday Dispatch, 8 Sep - 6 Oct 1946; with reply 'My reply to the German generals' by Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham Sunday Dispatch, 13 Oct 1946; 'German military chiefs, expert (Liddell Hart) tells why they failed' New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, 7 Feb 1945; 'Post-mortem on Hitler's military leaders' Adelaide Advertiser, Australia, 30 Jan 1946; 'Germany's war leaders were uneasy military bedfellows' Trinidad Guardian, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 20 Jan 1946; 'Mitschuld aft der anderen seite' article in German about Liddell Hart Kieler Nachrichten, 3 Sep 1949 with English translation; and typescript transcript of interview of Liddell Hart by Le Figaro, Paris, France, in English relating to German FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel [1953]; also including typescripts of Liddell Hart's Sunday Dispatch articles mentioned above with an unpublished sixth article 'How Hitler foundered at Stalingrad'; 2 articles 'A bâton rompus avec Liddell Hart' in French L'Armée-La Nation, Brussels, Belgium, Oct and Nov 1947; with correspondence including Sir Charles (Alexander) Petrie, 3rd Bt Carrowcarden, managing editor New English Review; editor Daily Express; editor News Chronicle; and 'The German soldier' letter to the editor of The Times by Liddell Hart, 22 Sep 1951. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/37
Liddell Hart foreword to book Panzer leader (Erinnerungen eines soldaten) by German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon with a forward by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/38
Newspaper cuttings relating to controversy over Heinz Guderian's book Panzer leader with a forward by Liddell Hart including 'Makers of history' letter by Liddel Hart to editor Daily Telegraph, 26 Jan 1952; 'Panzer Leader' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Listener, 6 Mar 1952; reply signed 'Your reviewer (Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne),' 13 Mar 1952; reply by Liddell Hart, 20 Mar 1952; correspondence including Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas, editor, The Listener; Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne and Richard T Burke, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/39
Copy of Heinz Guderian's book Panzer leader annotated 'uncorrected proof'. 1 volume
LIDDELL: 9/24/40
Copy of Heinz Guderian's book Panzer leader as cut for English paperback edition, Ace books number H166 (London, Harborough Publishing Company, 1957), with manuscript deletions. 1 volume
LIDDELL: 9/24/41
Copy of Heinz Guderian's book Panzer leader as cut for USA paperback edition, with manuscript deletions. 1 volume
LIDDELL: 9/24/42
Correpondence with publishers, Michael Joseph relating to Heinz Guderian's book Panzer leader with a forward by Liddell Hart, with correspondence relating to Guderian's Memoirs to be published by Cassell and Company including Maj Desmond John Newman Flower; other correspondence including German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian and Margarete Guderian, his wife; Robert Lusty, Roland Grant, Peter H Hebdon, Thomas J Couper, Raleigh Trevelyan and John Banbury of Michael Joseph Limited, publishers; William Sloane and Grace Hogarth, William Sloane Associates; Constantine Fitzgibbon; Herbert Van Thal, London International; Wendy Devlin, Hamish Hamilton Limited, publishers and G C Sansoni, Casa Editrice G C Sansoni, Florence, Italy, publishers; also including correspondence on USA and British paperback editions; file includes notes on translation and possible cutting of text with translation of Guderian's original forward. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/43
Press reviews of book Panzer leader by German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon with a forward by Liddell Hart; newspaper and journal cuttings including 'The creation of the German armoured force' by Guderian The Tank [Dec 1951]; 'Guderian, father of the blitzkrieg' by William T R Fox, Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York USA Armor, Jul-Aug 1952; review by Canadian Maj Gen Eedson Louis Millard Burns Saturday Night, Toronto, Canada, 14 Jun 1952; 'Guderian's Way' by Lt Gen Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks Sunday Times, 13 Jan 1952; 'Myth of German supremacy in the military art' by Capt Colin Reith Coote Daily Telegraph, 14 Jan 1952; 'Achtung! Panzer!' review by Reginald William (Chester) Wilmot The Spectator, 18 Jan 1952; 'With Hitler in defeat' series of articles by Guderian (from Panzer leader), Daily Herald, 7, 9-11 Jan 1952; 'The armored Goliath that failed' The New York Times Book Review, 10 Aug 1952 and 'Guderian's Tale' review in Newsweek, 11 Aug 1952; also typescript containing extracts from reviews and correspondence from Elliott Graham, E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, New York USA. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/44
Typescript sections of English translation by M Michaelis of Panzer marsch by German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (never published?) with correspondence with Michaelis. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/45
Liddell Hart foreword to Lost victories, the memoirs of German FM Fritz Erich von Manstein edited and translated by Anthony G Powell (Methuen, London, [1958]) first published as Verlorene Siege in 1955; with typescript and page proofs of introduction; file including correspondence with Basil Collier, Cabinet office, historical section; Anthony G Powell, translator; Maj John North; John D Cullen and Peter L K Wait, Methuen and Company, publishers; including newspaper cutting 'Books on the way - I' by Mark Stanhope Sunday Times, 23 Mar 1958 announcing publication of the memoirs in May 1958 and press reviews including 'Everything left to "the Fuhrer's intuition' by Lt Gen Hugh Gray Martin Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 29 May 1958; 'Manstein's view' a review by Basil Collier Sunday Times, 1 Jun 1958; 'Unhappy warrior' by Michael Eliot Howard The Observer, 8 Jun 1958; 'Dunkirk was a disaster for the Germans' by Brig Derek Mills-Roberts Liverpool Daily Post, 2 Jul 1958 and 'A military genius who helped Hitler look good' by S L A Marshal, New York Times, 5 Oct 1958. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/46
Liddell Hart foreword to Neither fear nor hope, the wartime career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, defender of Cassino (Krieg in Europa) by Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin, translated by George Malcolm (pseudonym of Commander Malcolm George Saunders, RN) with a foreword by Liddell Hart (Macdonald, London, 1963); including the foreword in typescript and galley proof; copy of the book in page proof with annotations; including correspondence with Commander Saunders and W J Taylor-Whitehead, Macdonald and Company, publishers; also newspaper cutting on death of Saunders The Times, 17 Aug 1967. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/47
Liddell Hart foreword to The German army and the Nazi party, 1933-1939 by Robert J O'Neill (Cassell, London, 1966); including book in page proof with typescript copy of foreward; correspondence including Kenneth Parker and Roger Massie, Cassell and Company, publishers; press reviews including 'Dilemma of the generals under Hitler' by Maj Gen James Louis Moulton Glasgow Herald, 23 Jul 1966. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/48
Dr Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, correspondence with Liddell Hart including Liddell Hart's note on a talk with Adenauer, Bonn, 9 Jun 1952; including part copy of correspondence between Reginald Steed, Daily Telegraph and Dr Linnell; including newspaper cuttings relating to Adenauer, 'Dehydrated' a review by Geoffrey Barraclough New Statesman, 15 Apr 1966 of Memoirs 1945-53 by Adenaur, translated by Beate Ruhm Von Oppen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1966) and articles published at Adenaur's death, 1967. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/49
German Adm Kurt Assmann, correspondence with Liddell Hart including newspaper cutting 'Die irgendwie unheimliche see' a review (in German) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 Jan 1951 of Assmann's book Deutsche Schicksalsjahre, historische Bilder aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und seiner Vorgeschichte, E. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1950; and death notice, 26 Jul 1962. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/50
German Gen Fritz Bayerlein, chief of staff of the German Afrika Korps, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including correspondence from W Burch and correspondence with Mark Bonham Carter, Collins publishers; also newspaper cutting of photograph of Bayerlein Sunday Express, 19 Feb 1950. See also Liddell Hart 9/24/25 relating to The Rommel papers, edited by Liddell Hart, and Liddell Hart 9/27/1 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/51
German Gen Anton Freiherr von Bechtolsheim: correspondence with Liddell Hart, including list of items belonging to Bechtolsheim held while he was a prisoner of war in Britain; correspondence including Col S Y McGiffert, Military Government, Munich, Germany; Col Louis James Woodhouse, War Office; Maj Denis B Topham, Island Farm Prisoner of war camp, Bridgend, Glamorganshire; Gen Sir Richard (Nugent) O'Connor; The Baroness Erika von Bechtolsheim; Maj Christopher Paget Mayhew, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State; Julian Amery, MP and Dr H Weddigen, Commercial Counsellor, German Consulate, London; including death notice for von Bechtolsheim, 9 Feb 1961. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/52
Professor Dr Gisbert Beyerhaus, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including Barry Sullivan; F S Kingston, German translator for Liddell Hart; Professor Doktor Hans Erich Stier, editor, Die Welt als Geschichte magazine; including offprint of 'Neue wege zur erforschung des zweiten weltkrieges' (in German) by Beyerhaus Die Welt als Geschichte, 1951, an article concerning Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/53
German Gen Günther Blumentritt, correspondence with Liddell Hart, some in German, some with English translations, others in English; including letter discussing history of Western campaign 1940, allied air forces, Meuse front and the Polish campaign 1939; also including Blumentritt's chronology of his career; with a list of guests celebrating the tenth anniversary of the German Military Programme in Europe, 21 Nov 1955 including US Gen Anthony Clement McAuliffe, Lt Gen H I Hodes, West German Lt Gen Dr Hans Speidel, West German Lt Gen Adolf Heusinger, US Brig Gen P M Robinett and Dr R G Ruppenthal; other correspondents including Mathilde Blumentritt, wife to the general; Lt Col Andrew Marshall Horsbrugh-Porter, Senior British Liaison officer, Headquarters, European Command; Col H E Potter, Chief Historian, Headquarters European Command; F W Heath, Odhams Press and Ursula Kerl, daughter of Blumentritt; with newspaper and journal cuttings including 'Defence of western Europe' by Blumentritt, translated by Thomas B Dunne, Intelligence Section, Army Headquarters An Cosantóir, Irish Defence Journal, Oct 1951; 'Eisenhower entschuldigt gehängte Generäle' Der Heimkehrer, 7 Jul 1954, with English condensation and note that the publication was produced by German Prisoners of War in Minnesota, USA; also including three photographs of Blumentritt (three in Sep 1944, one 10 Dec 1947 and death notice for Blumentritt, 12 Oct 1967. See also Liddell Hart 9/27/1 and Liddell Hart 9/27/11 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/54
German Col Hans W Boehm-Tettelbach, correspondence with Liddell Hart including note on Der Stahlhelm, German organisation of ex-servicemen disbanded 7 Nov 1935; other correspondents including Julian Ito Piggott; Editors of The Reader's Digest; including German newspaper cuttings. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/55
German FM Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Feb 1938-Dec 1941, correspondence with Liddell Hart; also Charlotte von Brauchitsch, his wife including her letter to Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, UK High Commissioner, Allied High Commission, Germany with reply from Maj Gen Kenneth Graeme McLean, Deputy Military Governor, British Zone in Germany; other correspondents including FM Sir William (Joseph) Slim; Lt Gen Nevil Charles Dowell Brown john, War Office; Alfred Powell Wadsworth, editor, Manchester Guardian; Professor (George) Gilbert (Aimé) Murray; Victor Gollancz, publisher; Richard Rapier Stokes, MP; including newspaper cuttings on death of Brauchitsch, 18 Oct 1948. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/56
Dr Wolfgang Ernst Eckehard Bredtschneider and Dr Johannes Christian Stahlbusch, psychiatrist, correspondence with Liddell Hart; including career outlines supplied by both and certifications of medical qualification for both; other correspondents including Lt Gen Sir Thomas J Hutton; Dennis A Routh and Sir Philip Manson-Bahr. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/57
German Maj Wilhelm Busch, correspondence with Liddell Hart including an outline of his career and list of translations done for Liddell Hart, including letter by prisoner Herbert Köstlin; also correspondence with Patricia Busch, wife of Busch; M A Schick, of E S Mittler and Sohn; E Bloomfield and Capt Lancelot Dykes Spicer. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/58
German Gen Ludwig Crüwell, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including correspondence with Berndt Crüwell, his son and death notice for the general, 25 Sep 1958 with obituary in The Times, 26 Sep 1958 quoting note by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/59
German Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar, correspondence with Liddell Hart, some in German with translation; including correspondence with Ilse Dittmar, his wife; R H Carlisle, translator for Liddell Hart; Reverend L C Simons; I Ledgerwood; Terence Cornelius Farmer Prittie, correspondent, Manchester Guardian; including coloured pencil sketch map of Stalingrad area, Jul-Sep 1942 suggesting position of Panzer forces; with newspaper cuttings including 'The Poles don't call him "papa", by Frederick Elwyn Jones, MP, British prosecuting counsel at Nuremberg Trial News Chronicle, 19 Feb 1948 concerning FM (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt; 'A labourer goes home' News Chronicle, 20 May 1948 with photo of Dittmar; 'Captain Liddell Hart und die Deutschen' by Dittmar, in German Der Soldat, 19 May 1951; 'Deutsches soldatentum und Deutsche demokratie' by Dittmar in Festschrift zum 1. bundestreffen der ehemaligen Pioniere, Holzminden/Weser, West Germany, 1952; also including photograph of Dittmar inscribed to Liddell Hart, Jun 1949 and a family photograph; with death notice for Dittmar, 26 Apr 1959. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/60
German Adm Siegfried H Engel, correspondence with Liddell Hart including Elfriede Engel, wife to Engel. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/61
German Gen Baron Leo Dietrich Franz Freiherr von Geyr von Schweppenburg, correspondence with Liddell Hart, in English; with other correspondence including the Baronness Elizabeth von Geyr, his wife; Ben Geyr, his son; Richard Robertson Trail, Medical director, Papworth Village Settlement; Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Sir Stanley Unwin, George Allen and Unwin Limited, publishers; Mark Bonham Carter, Collins, publishers, with summary of report 'On the first visit ... to my husband, Gen Will Bittrich, at the French prison hospital in Emendingen, Baden, after nine months of solitary confinement,' Mar 1949 reader's report on manuscript of Erinnerungen eines militärattachés by von Schweppenburg, later published as The critical years (Wingate, London, [1952]); Colin Reith Coote, Managing editor Daily Telegraph and Anthony Gibbs, Alan Wingate, publishers; Gen Sir Bernard (Charles Tolver) Paget; Maj Gen William Henry Alexander Bishop; Maj Gen Henry Robert Bowreman Foote, Director-General Fighting Vehicles; German Count Marcus Clary-Aldringen, Daimler-Benz (in German with English translation); Ludwig Hermann Alexander Chlodwig, Grand Duke of Hesse; Brig Charles Percy Ronald Johnston, Military Editor, Territorial; and Bertha Veeck, German Red Cross; newspaper cuttings including, 'The Bittrich case' by von Schweppenberg (in German with excerpts translated into English) Die Deutsche Soldatenzeitung, 11 Jun 1953; 'My memories of Ireland' by von Schweppenberg, with portrait photograph and profile of author, Sunday Press, Dublin, 29 Nov 1964; correspondence from Maj Christopher Paget Mayhew, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office to Flt Lt Aidan Merivale Crawley, MP concerning von Schweppenburg; also including sworn statement concerning von Schweppenburg by German Lt Gen Gerhard Engel, 24 Sep 1946, in German with English translation; in German with English translation; and memorandum on Constantin von Neurath by Winifred von Mackensen von Neurath, Rome, 15 Oct 1950; with death notice for von Schweppenberg, 17 Jan 1974 and The Times obituary, 16 Feb 1974. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/62
German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, Chief of the German General Staff, correspondence with Liddell Hart and other correspondence including Margarete Guderian, his wife; Czech Lt Col Ferdinand Otto Miksche; Maj Desmond John Newman Flower, Cassells and Company, publishers including reader's report of Guderian's book manuscript Erinnerungen eines soldaten; Madame J Laurès de Chavignac; Eduard Bogner, Munich, West Germany; Count George Wallwitz; with newspaper and journal cutting including 'Generaloberst Guderian generalinspekteur für die Panzerwaffe' (in German) Die Panzertruppe, Mar 1943; 'US tests German staff idea', US News and World Report, 10 Feb 1950 concerning Guderian; 'Hitler's general wants new wehrmacht' by Charles Wighton Daily Express, 18 Dec 1951 concerning Guderian; including death notice, 14 May 1954 with The Times, 17 May 1954 and other obituaries for Guderian. See also LH 9/24/37-47 on Guderian's memoirs, (Erinnerungen eines soldaten) translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon with a forward by Liddell Hart (Michael Joseph, 1952). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/63
German Col-Gen Franz Halder, Chief of the Army General Staff 1938-1942, correspondence with Liddell Hart, in German with English translations, including list of German officers held by Russians, 16 Dec 1949; with other correspondence including extract of letter by German Maj Gen R von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff, 16 Army (in German with English translation) and letter by Halder to M T Pacey, 7 Sep 1941; also including long note by German Maj Otto Schnübbe, former General Staff Major, Headquarters 1 Panzer Army, to President of West Germany and others (in German), 10 Jan 1950, reporting on conditions in Soviet camps for German officers; newspaper cuttings including 'Halder justifies the war' The Observer, 29 May 1949; 'Why Hitler lost the war by his Chief of Staff' Daily Mail, 2 Jun 1949; with The Times obituary of Halder by Capt (Robert) O'Neill, 4 Apr 1972. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/64
German Col-Gen Gotthard Heinrici, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including Gertrude Henrici, wife to Gotthard Heinrici and Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/65
Dr Kurt Hesse, former German Col, correspondence with Liddell Hart including correspondence with John McCulloch, Chief Press Officer, War Office; also including list of British contacts for Hesse provided by Liddell Hart (1950); including proposal by Hesse to establish journal to be called German Affairs in English digesting articles from German press (1948) with list of prospective publications; newspaper and journal cuttings including 'Wird es krieg geben?' digest in German of article (Will there be war?) by Liddell Hart from Picture Post, 24 Jul 1948 and 'A German view of German rearmament' by Hesse Human Events, Washington DC, 20 Sep 1950. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/66
German Gen Adolf Heusinger, correspondence with Liddell Hart; with newspaper cuttings including 'Extradition of NATO general demanded, Russia accuses Heusinger of war crimes' Guardian, 13 Dec 1961. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/67
Cornelia Irene Hoffmann, wife of German Gen Maximilian Hoffman, of World War One, correspondence with Liddell Hart concerning possibile edition of her correspondence with the general during World War One; other correspondence including David Higham, Curtis Brown, literary agents; with note by Barry Sullivan.1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/68
Dr Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, German military historian, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including memorandum by Jacobsen '"Manstein-Plan" and the OKH "Weisung"'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/69
Luftwaffe FM Albert Kesselring, Commander-in-Chief of German troops in Italy, correspondence with Liddell Hart, some in English, including list of questions put by Liddell Hart; other correspondence including Liny Kesselring, wife; Hon Kenneth Gilmour Younger, MP, Foreign Office; Col Walter A Smithwick, Kilkenny, Ireland and Curt Barth; with newspaper cuttings including photograph of Kesselring and wife Quick, 15 Jun 1952; 'The Green Devils find a new hero' by Denis Martin Daily Express, 25 May 1953 concerning Kesselring; 'The man who saw all, but takes the blame for nothing' review of Kesselring's Memoirs Northern Echo, 16 Nov 1953 The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring (Soldat bis zum letzten Tag) translated by Lynton Hudson (William Kimber, London, 1953 with other reviews; 'Kesselring dies, he ordered massacre in caves' Reynolds News, 19 Jul 1960; 'Farewell' notice (in German) for Kesselring after his death by Curt Barth Der Stahlhelm, Aug 1960; including death notice for Kesselring, 16 Jul 1960 and obituaries. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/70
German Maj Gen Ulrich Liss, correspondence with Liddell Hart also with Erika Liss, his wife, with note by Liss on 'a toast of the late Sir Nevile Henderson (Rt Hon Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin 1937-1939),' 16 Jul 1957; with death notice for Liss, 11 Jun 1968. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/71
German FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, correspondence with Liddell Hart, other correspondence including Jutta Sibylle von Manstein, his wife; Rüdiger von Manstein, his son; Maj Gen Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones; Sylvia von Harden-Lehr; Desmond Flower, Cassell and company; Douglas Jerrold, Director, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, publishers; Herbert Read, Director, Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, publishers; Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Dr Paul Leverkuehn, German solicitor; Dr Hans Ebeling; Baron Ulrich von Freyberg; Arthur H von Loesch; Ursula Michaelsen; Frank Reyner Salter; Francis Harry Hinsley, historian; with notes by Liddell Hart including 'Note as preface to Manstein's articles,' Jan 1957, and 'Supplementary notes for insertion in Von Manstein's first article "German defensive operations against the Soviets by Army Group South in Southern Russia, 1943-1944"'; with cuttings including a review of Manstein, his campaigns and his trial by Reginald Thomas Paget (Collins, London, 1951) in The Listener, 13 Dec 1951; 'Von Manstein released from British custody' Manchester Guardian, 8 May 1953; 'Von Manstein's work, role in Bonn defence ministry' The Times, 6 Jun 1955; including The Times obituary for Von Manstein by Liddell Hart, 13 Jun 1973 with typescript copy dated Oct 1958. See also Liddell Hart 9/27/1 and Liddell Hart 9/27/11 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/72
German Gen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, Commander-in-Chief 5 Panzer Army, correspondence with Liddell Hart including Manteuffel's views (Jan 1949) on Liddell Hart's book The other side of the hill (Cassell, London, 1948); note by Manteuffel 'Profession of a candid German,' Mar 1949; summary of Manteufel's 'The question of "German Security",' Feb 1950; memorandum sent by Manteuffel to Brig Antony Henry Head 'On the German contribution', in German with English translation; 'Extract from the judgment of the Düsseldorf Tribunal on 21 Aug 1959 against Gen Hasso E von Manteuffel'; other correspondence including Sir Charles (Alexander) Petrie, 3rd Bt of Carrowcarden; Managing editor, New English Review; with newspaper cuttings including 'The general (Manteuffel) howled down' by Karl Robson, News Chronicle, 13 Jun 1950; 'German ex-general alledged to have had soldier shot' Manchester Guardian, 17 Aug 1959; 'General Manteuffel gets 18 months' News Chronicle, 22 Aug 1959 and 'Pardon for former German general (Manteuffel)' The Times, 20 Jun 1961. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/73
German Maj Gen Frederick W von Mellenthin, Chief of Staff to FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, correspondence with Liddell Hart and Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart, including with article in typescript by Mellenthin 'The present military-political situation of the states and lands in the southern African space' [Jul 1960]; with other correspondence including Kenneth Parker, Chief Editor, Cassell and Company with list of brief notes by Mellenthin on 16 German commanders of World War Two, 1 Jun 1973; with newspaper cuttings including 'Tank man' by John Rolls Daily Mirror, 26 Aug 1959 discussing meeting between Mellenthin and Liddell Hart; 'Old enemies meet in South Africa' Evening Standard, 30 Nov [1959] photograph of meeting between Mellenthin and FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/74
German Gen Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand, correspondence with Liddell Hart, with list of 'Supplementary questions on the organization of Panzer formations,' Jan 1953; including article 'Nationale armee oder Europaarmee?' by Müller-Hillebrand (in German) Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Apr 1953 with English condensation. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/75
German Gen Walther K Nehring, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including introduction by Nehring to lecture by Liddell Hart in Düsseldorf, West Germany, 25 Sep 1957, in German and English. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/76
German V Adm Friedrich Ruge, correspondence with Liddell Hart with other correspondence by Liddell Hart to von Pachelbel, Press Attaché, German Embassy. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/77
German FM (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, correspondence with Liddell Hart; with other correspondence including Luise von Rundstedt, wife; Capt F S Kingston; Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, War Office; Dr Walter Grimm, Dr Paul Leverkuehn and Dr Walter Siemers, defence counsel for Rundstedt; Hildegard Lehmkuhl; Reginald Thomas Paget, MP; Richard Rapier Stokes, MP; Alfred Powell Wadsworth, editor, Manchester Guardian; Nunally Johnson, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; with list of 20 war crimes served on Rundstedt and 5 served upon German Col Gen Adolf Strauss, Jan 1949; including comments upon charges against Rundstedt by 'a prominent English counsel,' 25 Jan 1949; with newspaper and journal cuttings including 'Gerd von Rundstedt' by W E Hart (pseudonym) Message, Belgian Review, Feb 1945; 'Von Rundstedt leaves Diss, bound for Nuremberg with Von Mannstein' The Times, 23 Jul 1948 and 'Field Marshal Von Rundstedt's own story of the Battle of the Bulge' by Gen Günther Blumentritt Collier's, 3 Jan 1953; including death notices for Luise von Rundstedt, 4 Oct 1952 and FM von Rundstedt, 24 Feb 1953. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/78
German Dr Albert Hilger van Scherpenberg, diplomat, and Inge, wife, correspondence with Liddell Hart and Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart; other correspondence including ACM Sir Ralph (Alexander) Cochrane; Maj Gen Sir Cyril (Harry) Colquhoun; with newspaper cuttings including 'New head of Bonn foreign service, Dr Van Scherpenberg's career' The Times, 31 Jan 1958; with memorandum of reception for van Scherpenberg by European-Atlantic Group and Anglo-German Association, 18 Jul 1960; including death notice of van Scherpenberg, 12 Sep 1969 and obituary The Times, 20 Sep 1969. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/79
German Gen Frido von Senger und Etterlin, commander of German forces at Monte Cassino, and Gen Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin (his son), correspondence with Liddell Hart; other correspondence including Hilda Margarete, wife to Frido von Senger und Etterlin; Ebba von Senger und Etterlin, wife of Ferdinand; Marjorie Henham-Barrow, Deputy Director, British Red Cross Society; including notes on tank tactics from both von Sengers; with newspaper cuttings including 'How General saw Nazis' Daily Telegraph, 3 Oct 1960 relating to television interview with Frido von Senger; including death notice for Frido, 2 Jan 1963; with pamphlet Gliederung und taktik der sowjet-russischen panzerwaffe (Formation and tactics of the Soviet-Russian armoured forces) in German with notes in English, 1 Aug 1942; also including obituary for Ferdinand The Times, 13 Jan 1987. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/80
GermanGen Hans Speidel, Chief of Staff to FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, correspondence with Liddell Hart in German with English translations including 'Plans and aims of the German communists,' 25 Jan 1950; with newspaper and journal cutting including series of articles on D-Day by Speidel Daily Herald, 5-7, 9 Jun 1950, incomplete; 'Man behind Rommel' review by Lt Gen Sir Brian (Gwynne) Horrocks of We Defended Normandy (Invasion 1944 in German) by Speidel, translated by Ian Colvin (London, Herbert Jenkins, 1951); 'How to defend western Europe, a German general's plan' relating to Speidel Chicago Daily Tribune, 6 Dec 1952; 'August Graf von Gneisenau' and 'Ludwig Beck' by Speidel, two offprint articles from Die Grossen Deutschen edited by Hermann Heimpel, Theodor Heuss and Benno Reifenberg (Berlin, I M Prypyläen, [1957]); including 'Speidel Special' Democratic German Report, 20 Jun 1958 annotated 'Communist' and articles relating to East German film Operation Teutonic Sword which Speidel succeeded in having banned in Britain. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/81
German Gen Kurt Student, correspondence with Liddell Hart, including note on German plans relating to the invasion of England, in German and English and a channel tunnel, with other correspondence including A[lfred] R[ichard] Weyl and George C Turner. See also Liddell Hart 9/27/1 and Liddell Hart 9/27/11 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/82
German Gen Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, General of tank troops, correspondence with Liddell Hart, with correspondence including Brig Henry Beveridge Latham, Cabinet Office. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/83
German Gen Kurt von Tippelskirch, General of Infantry, correspondence with Liddell Hart, with other correspondence including Elly von Tippelskirch, wife and Maj Frederick Devereux Pile; including Times Literary Supplement review, 7 Nov 1952 of Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs (History of the Second World War) (Bonn, Athenäum Verlag, 1952) by Tippelskirch; including death notice of Tippelskirch, 15 May 1957. See also Liddell Hart 9/27/1 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/84
German Maj Dr T George A Tzschirner, correspondence with Liddell Hart including discussion of World War One. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/85
German Gen Walter Warlimont, correspondence with Liddell Hart including commentary on The other side of the hill by Liddell Hart, with other correspondence including Anita Warlimont, wife; Dorothee Warlimont, daughter; US Col Truman Smith; Capt Russell Grenfell, RN; including copy of affadavit by Liddell Hart concerning responsibility of military commander, 30 Apr 1948; list of food parcel sent to Warlimont for Christmas 1949. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/86
German Lt Gen Siegfried Westphal, correspondence with Liddell Hart, with other correspondence including Douglas Jerrold, editor, New English Review; A H Willcocks concerning confiscated documents intended for Liddell Hart; Julian Ito Piggott, Anglo-German Association; including typescript article 'Hitler and the Generalstab [General staff?]' by YZ; paper entitled 'Comments by Gen Westphal on Liddell Hart's paper "How to quicken manoeuvre and gain flexibility in land warfare" 20 Oct 1949,'; typescript English translation of review by Westphal of Jetzt durfen sie reden (Stuttgart and Hamburg, Stuttgarter Verlag, 1951) (German translation of Liddell Hart's The other side of the hill) Der Notweg, Feb 1951 original included; 'The Centurions' interview with Manfred Heusinger and Westphal by Brian Moynahan, unidentified publication [1966]; newspaper cuttings including 'Rommel's chief-of-staff comes here to tell his story' Evening Standard [14 Jan 1956]; including book entitled The German army in the West (in manuscript, cancelling title The fettered by Westphal (London, Cassell and Company, 1951)). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/87
Correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to German Generals including Andrew Alexander; Maj Eduard Ambros; German Gen Alexander Andrae and Charlotte Andrae, his wife; Joachim Arendt; Graf Wolf von Baudissin, including 'Generals in a new tradition' by Anne Sington, article (no date, no publication listed) discussing Baudissin; Markgraf Berthold von Baden; Capt D DeW Bazata; Winrich Behr; Dr Adolf Bischlager; Adm Hermann Boehm; Helmut Bohn; Dr Alexander Böker; Herbert Breitling; German Gen Jürgen Bennecke; Commander 1 Corps; von Brentano; Adm E A Breuning; Hans Brunswig, including article by Brunswig 'Brandschutz und Luftschutz' concerning fire and wind protection Brandschutz (1957); Karl H Buldmann; German Lt Col Robert Bürger; H von Buttlar; Elita Caspari; Madame de Chavignac; German Gen Dietrich von Choltitz with The Times obituary, 7 Nov 1966; Ernst Bodo Dannemann; Charlotte von Dassel (née von Richthofen); German Maj Gen Erich Dethleffsen; German Maj Gen Helmuth Dorn; Arthur Ehrhardt; Dr E[dwin] Elmerich; Fritz Erler; Hasso von Etzdorf, German Ambassador to Great Britain; German Col Fechner; Dr Finger; Wilhelm L Fischer; Karl-Heinz Fleitmann; Baron Dr Ulrich Freiherr von Freyberg; Hans K Fritzsche; German Gen Gaedcke; Capt Nikolai Galay with programme for International Symposium on Soviet literature in the sixties, 2-6 Sep 1963, Munich; Alfredo Sanchez Bella, Madrid; von Gaupp-Berghausen; German Lt Gen Alfred Gause; Dr Ursula von Gersdorff; Dr Walter Görlitz; Peter R Götte; German Lt Gen Heinz Greiner; German Gen H von Greiffenberg; German Col Dr von Groote; Dr Max W Gruber; Katharina Hagen-Warnsholdt; Ludwig von Hammerstein; Dr Ernst F Sedgwick Hanfstaengl; Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover; German Adm Gottfried Hansen; Prof Ewald Hauer; Prince Ludwig of Hesse including The Times obituary, 1 Jun 1968; Princess Margaret of Hesse; Dr Rudolf Hilf with memorandum 'Atomic mobile warfare?'; Alfons J W Hilgers; Friedrich Hirsch; Prof Dr Reinhard Höhn; A J Hoppe, director, J M Dent and Sons, publishers; Elizabeth Hömberg; Dr Hans von Hoesslin, MD and Inge von Hoesslin; Simon Guttmann; Peter-Erich Hoffmann; Wilhelm Holländer; Gunter Holtzweissig; Dr Hans J Hossfeld; Hans Nellen; Klemens Hüfnagels; Dr Max Hummeltenberg; Dr Hans Edgar Jahn; President, [German Association of Democratic Circles]; Madame N H Jeanty; Lüise Jodl, wife of German Col Gen Alfred Jodl; Dr Otto A W John; Dr Heribert Jsele; Dr Wolfgang Kautter; Dr Hans Keller; Edgar C Kiesel; Hermann Kirmis; Gerhard Kletschka; death notice for Dr Justus Koch, 1 Jun 1962; K F Koehler Verlag, publishers; M Niedermayer, Limes Verlag, publishers; W Kohlhammer Verlag, publishers; Friedrich Korsmeyer; Dr Krause-Brewer; German Gen Werner Kreipe; Wolfgang Krüger; Helene Kutsch; C B Labouchere; Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt; LudwigVoggenreiter Verlag, publishers; Maj Francis William Crewe Fetherstone-Godley, Chairman, British Legion; T C P Corder Catchpool; Dr Adolf Leichtle; Baron Eckart Freiherr von Lerchenfeld; W A Lewis; Gerhard Leyrer; Dr Viktor Freiherr von der Lippe; Robert Lotz; Capt Edgar Luchting, German Navy; Dr Schmitz; George Jeger, MP; Hans Luther; Winfried Martini; Albrecht C Matingen; Walter Mertineit; Capt Mechlenburg; Dr Heinz Mitschke; Willy Mühlenmeister; Rudolf Nebel; Gottfried Niedhart; Dr Noack; Luftwaffe Maj Rudolf Nölle; US Col H E Potter; Margaret Otto; Ernst Alexander Paulus; Dr F L Carsten; Oswin Cornelius Pfeiffer, editor Deutschen Soldaten Zeitung [German soldier's newspaper]; Baron Hubert von Pfetten; Mathilde Plate; German Col Hans von Ploetz; Horst Pretzell; H D Ziman, Daily Telegraph; Francis C Prior; Dr Alf Pritsch; Guido Harmsen Rathke; German Lt Gen H von Ravenstein; Hans Rechenberg; Baron Bogdun Freiherr von Recum; Baroness Frances von Redwitz; German Col von Reichenau; German Col Gen Lothar Rendulic; Dr Hans Riegler; Capt von Rintelen; Reiner Rodenhauser; Anne von Royk-Lewinski; German Gen Edgar Röhricht; German Maj Col Hans Roschmann; Dr Rothe; Günther von Einem; Valia Sauter; Wolf Schenke; Erwin Scheithauer; Dr Gustav Schmidt; Helmut Schmidt; German Maj Otto Schnübbe; German Adm Schniewind; Dr Gerhard Scholz; Dr Walter P Schuck, editor, Atlantic Financial Service; Günther Seidel; Luftwaffe Gen Hans-Georg von Seidel, with death notice, 11 Nov 1955; German Lt Gen Curt von Siewert; German Gen Georg von Sodenstern; Dr Max Spandau; Konrad Spengler; Dr Georg Sperl; Dr Edgar Stern-Rubarth; German Maj Rolf O G Stoves; Dr Leonore A M Stromeyer and Dr Walther Stromeyer; German Col Dr Friedrich Stuhlmann; Dr Josef Stummvoll; Countess (Grafin) Maria-Elizabeth von Thoma; Frau von Massow; German Gen Alfred Toppe; German Gen Klaus Uebe; German R Adm Hans Voss; Dr Graf George von Wallwitz; Prof H Walter; Rudolf Walther; Edward Walz; German Maj Gen Kurt Weckmann; Hilde Wesener; Elga D Wetzell; Peter G Whichman; Alice Collet; German Gen von Wietersheim; Fritz Bender; Charlotte Wilker; Dr Robert Willett; Prof Dr Ernst Wolgast; German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian and Erich Wollenberg. 4 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/88
Officials of German Embassy, correspondence with Liddell Hart and Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart, including Alec Bishop; Leonard F Behrens; German Lt Col Karl-Eberhard Boehm, Military Attaché; Sigismund Freiherr von Braun, Counsellor, German Embassy and Hilde von Braun; Col Joachim Brückner; Brig Gen Roderich Cescotti, Defence Attaché; Theodor Ebert; G Feine; Prof Hugo Fischer; Hans (Johnny) Heinrich von Herwarth von Bittenfeld; Ambassador to Great Britain; German Maj Kitschmann; Assistant Military Attaché; German Col H J Kraaz, Military Attaché; German Lt Col Albert Georg Kraus; Army Attaché, and Ruth Kraus, wife; Dr Friedrich Oxenius, Matthew Oxenius and Lore Oxenius; German Col Hans von Ploetz and Felicitas von Ploetz; Air Attaché; Ulrich Sahm; Adm Scheinermann; Dr Hans Schlange-Schöningen, Consul general and Margarete Schlange-Schöningen, wife; Dr Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany; Oscar Schlitter; German Col Fritz F von Schroetter; T Stelzenmüller; Herbert Sulzbach; Dr R Thierfelder; Baron Dr R H Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg and German Kriegsmarine Capt A Zimmermann, Naval Attaché; with address by German Consul general Dr Hans Schlange-Schöningen to Deutsche Übersee-Club, Hamburg (in English), 7 May 1951; including guest lists for embassy functions; with newspaper cutting including 'Diplomat [Dr Schlange-Schöningen] with a ghost at his heels' John Bull, 18 Aug 1951; 'Arrival of new German ambassador (von Herwarth)' The Times, 17 May 1955; 'New ambassador [Dr Herbert Blankenhorn] a consummate politician' The Times, 13 Mar 1965. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/89
German defence staff, correspondence with Liddell Hart including German Gen Jürgen Bennecke; Commander 1 Corps; Col Joachim Brückner; Lt Col Hans Hinrichs; German Gen Count Johan Adolf von Kielmansegg and Hanno von Kielmansegg, son; Jon Kimche, Jewish Observer; including 'German contribution to the German Army' notes on talk with von Kielmansegg, 10 Jun 1952; 'Problems of high command within the alliance', lecture by von Kielmansegg at Camberley Staff College, 9 Oct 1969 and Consilio non imperio, a collection of essays on von Kielmansegg, NATO Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe (in English), 30 Dec 1966. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/90
A general file on the background to Liddell Hart's talks with the German Generals; some notes, and correspondence with officials and friends including Lt Gen Sir Charles (Noel Frank) Broad; Maj Charles Marcus Lefevre Clements; Brig Charles Ernest Rickards Hirsch, War Office; Rene Halkett, Control Office for Germany and Austria; Wg Cdr F H Hitch; Gen Sir Richard (Nugent) O'Connor; Wg Cdr Norman Roffey; Reverend Lewis Christmas Simons; Barry S Sullivan; Maj Denis B Topham, including obituary The Times, 19 Sep 1960; Brig Croxton Sillery Vale, War Office; William H Arnott; Capt Brian Bliss; Maj Gen Raymond Briggs; Kay Holt; R H Carlisle; Capt F S Kingston, translator; Gen Sir Frederick (Alfred) Pile Bt; US Brig Gen Paul W Thompson; Gen Sir (Augustus Francis) Andrew (Nicol) Thorne; Michal Vyvyan; J H Engel; with notes by Liddell Hart including 'Report on talks at POW camps,' 12 Jan 1946; and 'German generals' evidence'; with lists of questions and lists of answers by Adm Kurt Assmann; Gen Günther Blumentritt (in German); Dr Walter Görlitz; German V Adm Eberhard Weichold (in German); with newspaper and journal cuttings including '[Denis] Sefton Delmer talks to Hitler's generals in jail' Daily Express, 12 Jun 1950; 'Deutsche generäle ohne uniform' ['German generals out of uniform'] Münchner Illustrierte, 18 Sep 1954 with photographs of generals; including list of addresses of German generals and items contained in food and clothing parcels sent by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/91
German Lt Gen Fritz Bayerlein, Commander Panzer Lehr Division and later 53 Panzer Corps, interview transcripts and notes relating to World War Two including his views on future tank design; notes of interviews with Bayerlein by Chester Wilmot on Russian tanks, 2, 5 Aug 1950, Battle of Normandy, 5 Aug 1950; including newspaper cutting 'Wie muss Europa verteidigt werden?' by Bayerlein Abendpost, 25 Nov 1952, with English summary, 'How must Europe be defended?'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/92
German Gen Anton Freiherr von Bechtolsheim, General of Artillery, including letter to Gen Sir (Augustus Francis) Andrew (Nicol) Thorne, General commanding allied forces Norway concerning future of Germany after World War Two, 11 Oct 1945, with notes relating to the offensive in France, 1940 and Russia, 1941. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/93
German Gen Günther Blumentritt, interview transcripts and notes relating World War Two including developments after D-Day; including brief chronology of Blumentritt's military career, extensive historical notes by Blumentritt in German with translations including 'Development of Prussian-German officers corps', note on 'The Jewish question', notes on Germany strategy, tactics, notes on the 1939-1945 war, national socialism, Adolf Hitler, propaganda, 'England and Adolf Hitler', military tactics, the Polish campaign, personal view of situation in Germany in May 1949, comments on where Germany expected allied invasion in autumn 1944 and suggested topics for SHAPE conference of military educators; with map of Germany after World War Two showing division into American, British, Russian and French zones (scale 1:1000000); with newspaper and journal cuttings including 'Is higher command more complex today?' by Blumentritt An Cosantóir, The Irish Defence Journal, Apr 1951 and reviews of Blumentritt's book Von Rundstedt: the soldier and the man, with a foreword FM (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, translated by Cuthbert Reavely (London, Odhams, 1952). 4 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/94
FM Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of German Army Feb 1938-Dec 1941, statement dated 19 Nov 1945 on development of German Army 1920-1945 also signed by German FM Erich von Manstein, German Col Gen Franz Halder, German Gen Walter Warlimont and German Gen Siegfried Westphal (in German and English); transcript of interview with German Lt Gen Curt von Siewert, former adjutant to von Brauchitsch relating to service of Brauchitsch in German high command in World War Two; correspondence between Lt Col Maurice Rapinet Mackenzie, MI 1 [Military Intelligence 1, War Office] and Liddell Hart, 4 Nov-13 Dec 1949 concerning delivery of Brauchitsch statement. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/95
German Maj Wilhelm Busch, note of talk relating to service with German Army in Poland, France, and Russia in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/96
German Lt Gen Wilhelm Daser, Commander 70 Infantry Div, memorandum relating to his service in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/97
German Lt Gen Erich Diestel, Commander 346 Infantry Div, memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/98
German SS-Oberstgruppenführer Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich, Commander 1 SS Panzer Corps and 6 SS Panzer Army, interview transcripts and memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including his obituary from the Guardian, 20 April 1966. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/99
German Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including English translation of article by Dittmar entitled, 'Is Liddell Hart's 'Strategy' an attack on Clausewitz?' from Deutsche soldaten-zeitung [German military review], Apr 1957, includes a reply to the article by German Gen Dr Lothar Rendulic. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/100
Notes on the Normandy campaign in World War Two covering Aug-Sep 1944, including comments of German Lt Gen Elfeldt, commander 84 Corps, German Gen Eberbach, General officer commanding 7 Army, German Lt Gen Heyking, German Lt Gen Menny, SS Obergruppenführer Meyer, commander 12 Panzer Div. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/101
German Gen Elfeldt, interview notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including another copy of LH 9/24/100. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/102
German R Adm Siegfried von Engel, former Assistant Director of Personnel in German Navy, interview notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two; German V Adm Brinkmann, Commanding Officer of Cruiser PRINZ EUGEN and R Adm Breuning, Director of Mining Operations, interview notes relating to their service in German Navy in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/103
German Lt Gen Edgar Feuchtinger, commander 21 Panzer Div, 6 Jun -25 Aug 1944, memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/104
German Maj Gen Heinz Fiebig, commander 84 Infantry Div, memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/105
German Gen Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg, Commander Panzer Gruppe West, memoranda relating to his service in German high command in World War Two; extracts written by von Schweppenburg including 'Revolution in military training' in typescript and cutting from The Tank [1952]; 'On the other side of the hill' The Spectator, 5 Jun 1964; 'Guderian, portrait of a German spy' An Cosantóir - The Irish Defence Journal, Nov 1964. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/106
German Col-Gen Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, Chief of the German General Staff, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two with typescript extracts from his correspondence and cuttings of articles by Guderian including, 'The creation of the German armoured force' (2 parts), The Tank, Dec 1951-Jan 1952; 'Experiences of the campaign in Russia' a summary in English of 'Erfahrungen im Russlandkrieg' from Bilanz des zweiten weltkrieges (Oldenburg, West Germany, [1953]), with original in German included in an offprint; 'The experiences of the war in Russia' Military Review, Jul 1957; 'Guderian, portrait of a German spy', An Cosantóir - The Irish Defence Journal, Nov 1964; also 'What is tradition? The maxims of the bundeswehr' and 'The sense of duty of a soldier' translated from Die Zeit, 23 Jul 1965, with original cuttings included; and a German map entitled Die Kämpfe der 4. Armee im Mai 1940, scale 1:300,000, annotated with the dispositions of German forces showing the advance of the German Army into France and Belgium in May 1940. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/107
German Col-Gen Franz Halder, Chief of the Army General Staff 1938-1942, interview memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including journal cutting, 'Le journal du General Halder' by Adolphe Goutard (in French) from La revue de Paris, Jul 1958. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/108
German Gen Richard Heidrich, Commander of 1 Parachute Div, memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/109
German Lt Gen Ferdinand Heim, Commandant Fortress Boulogne, memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/110
German Col-Gen Gotthard Heinrici, memorandum of talk relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including memorandum entitled, 'Talk with Generals Heinrici, Rohricht and Bechtolsheim', 3 Jan 1946 and typescript letter to Liddell Hart, 4 May 1948. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/111
Lt Col Robert David Quixano Henriques, Assistant Chief Military Planner, Combined Operations Headquarters, report entitled, 'Planning and assault phases of the Sicilian campaign' referring to allied action in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/112
German officer von der Heydte, memorandum relating to his service commanding parachutists in the Ardennes in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/113
German Col-Gen Hoeffner, memorandum relating to his service with German Army involving 'bombing and rail movement' in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/114
German Gen Jahn, General of Artillery, memorandum relating to his service with German Army in the Italian campaign in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/115
German Gen Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Wehrmacht, memoranda on war against England and plans for the Ardennes offensive; memorandum on interview between Brig Foord and Gen Jodl relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/116
German FM Wilhelm Keitel, interview transcripts and memorandum relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/117
Luftwaffe FM Albert Kesselring, Commander-in-Chief of German troops in Italy, interview transcripts and notes in German with English translation relating to his service in the Italian campaign in World War Two, including discussion of German forces, operations in Sicily, Salerno, the Anzio-Nettuno landings, evacuation of Rome, withdrawal to north of Florence, final stages of the campaign, use of air force, armour, the situation in North Africa, including annotated sketch maps. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/118
German FM Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Commander 1 Panzer Army, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/119
German FM Gunther Hans von Kluge, Army Group Commander in Russia and France, copy of letter to Hitler and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/120
German Adm Theodor Krancke, Naval Commander-in-Chief in the West, note relating to naval plans for invasion of England in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/121
German Gen Kruse, interrogation notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/122
German Maj Gen Ulrich Liss, speeches relating to his stay in Russia 1945-1955 and intelligence service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/123
German Gen Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz, Commander 2 Panzer Div and 47 Panzer Corps, notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two including annotations by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/124
German FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, with articles by Von Manstein (in English including 'German defensive operations against the Soviets by Army Group South in southern Russia, 1943-1944', 'The battle for the Dnieper area' and excerpts from 'Sketches and silhouettes, reminiscences of a German soldier' (?unpublished) including commentary by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/125
German Gen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, Commander-in-Chief 5 Panzer Army, interview and interrogation reports and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including notes by Von Manteuffel on 'Russian tactics', and reports by him entitled, 'Random thoughts on the conclusions arrived at by virtue of war experiences on strength, organisation (formation), armament and equipment of the armed forces on the field of battle' and 'Some thoughts on the employment of the Panzer Grenadier Div 'Grossdeutschland' in the defensive and tank battle of Targul Frumos, Rumania, 2-5 May 1944'; including articles, 'German morale, 1939-1945,' An Cosantóir - The Irish Defence Journal, Nov 1949 and 'Waffen allein nutzen nichts' Der Mittag [1950-53] with typed translation entitled, 'Arms alone are of no use'; copies of correspondence between Von Manteuffel and Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/126
German Gen Eugen Meindel, Commander 2 Parachute Corps, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/127
German SS Obergruppenführer Kurt Meyer, Commander 12 SS Panzer Div 'Hitler jugend', notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two and the Normandy battle during which he was captured, 7 Sep 1944. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/128
German Lt Gen Wolfgang Pickert, Commander 3 Flak Corps, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/129
German Lt Gen Hermann Plocher, Commander 6 Parachute Div, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two including action in Normandy and defence of the Rhine, 1943-1945. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/130
German Gen Edgar Röhricht, interview summary and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including report by Röhricht 'The Reichswehr's part in Hitler's rise to power (not with the help [of], but against the army)'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/131
German V Adm Friedrich Ruge, report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two entitled, 'Fieldmarshal Rommel's measures to counter the invasion,' and review of his book Rommel und die invasion (K F Koehler Verlag, Stuttgart, [1959]), translated as 'With the end of Rommell all hope was lost', including original review. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/132
German FM (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander-in-Chief West, notes of interviews relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, includes manuscript map entitled, 'Ardennes plan' and newspaper cutting by Laurence Wilkinson, 'Hitler wanted pact in 1939,' Daily Mail, 24 Nov 1945. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/133
German Maj Gen Sanders, Commander 245 Infantry Div, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/134
German Lt Gen Friedrich August Schack, Commander 272 Infantry Div, report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/135
German Gen Alfred Schlemm, Commander 1 Parachute Army, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/136
German Lt Col Ludwig Schröder, Commandant Fortress Calais, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/137
German Gen Eugen-Felix Schwalbe, Commander 344 Infantry Div, 719 Infantry Div and 88 Corps, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/138
German Gen Ferdinand von Senger und Etterlin, interview notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including notes by Von Senger on operations in Sicily and on Russian tank development, and an article by Von Senger, 'Armoured formations in the defence', An Cosantóir - The Irish Defence Journal, May 1952. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/139
German Lt Gen Curt von Siewert, formerly Adjutant to FM Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of German Army until Dec 1941, notes of conversation with Liddell Hart relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/140
Albert Speer, German Minister for Armaments and War Production 1942-1945, interrogation notes relating to his service in German government in World War Two, including 'Speer on Hitler', 'Effects of bombing on war industry', and article by John Kenneth Galbraith and George W Ball entitled, 'The interrogation of Albert Speer', [Saturday Evening Post, Nov-Dec 1945]. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/141
German Gen Otto Sponheimer, Commander 67 Infantry Corps, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/142
German Gen Erich Straube, Commander 86 Infantry Corps, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/143
German Col-Gen Kurt Student, Commander Army Group 'H' and Commander-in-Chief Paratroops, notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two including a note by Student in German and English. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/144
German Gen Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, General of tank troops, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including statements by Von Thoma in German with English translation. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/145
German Gen Kurt von Tippelskirch, General of Infantry, notes of talks relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including article in French by Tippelskirch, 'La strategie allemand aux moments decisifs de la guerre terrestre,' from Revue Militarie Suisse, May 1957. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/146
German Col-Gen Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Commander 10 Army, Commander-in-Chief Army Group 'C', interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/147
German Adm Voss, note relating to his service in German naval high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/148
German Gen Walther Warlimont, General of Artillery, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including two reports by Warlimont, 'Foundations and objectives of the German -Italian campaign in Tunisia, 1942-1943' and 'The fundamentals and objectives of the German campaign in Italian North Africa'. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/149
Gen Siegfried Westphal, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including Times obituary of 6 Aug 1982. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/150
German Maj Rudoph Wich, member of General Staff of 5 Army Corps, 1941-1942, correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to his service in German command in World War Two, including, 'Note of an operation by Russian airborne troops in the winter of 1941-1942,' by Wich. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/151
German Col Eberhard Wildermuth, Commandant of Frotress Le Havre, note relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/152
German Brigade Leader Theodor Wisch, 1 SS Panzer Div 'Adolph Hitler', notes relating to his service in German command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/153
German Gen Gustav von Zangen, Commander 15 Army, interrogation report relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/154
German Gen Kurt Zeitzler, Chief of General Staff of the Army, Sep 1942- Jul 1944, interrogation statement relating to his service in German high command in World War Two. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/155
Liddell Hart Notes on World War Two war crimes and war crimes trials, including typed extracts from British press on Nuremberg relating aspects of the trials including Norway, Russia, German strategy and generals, anti-Hitler plots, the Western Front; with note of 'talk with Alexander Clifford after his return from the Mediterranean,' 4 Apr 1944, German treatment of POWs, 'allied' war crimes, Spanish Republican prisoners in Britain, Liddell Hart notes on talk with Rt Hon Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Attorney General, 29 Sep 1945; typescript 'On the record - Let Britons be proud' by Dorothy Thompson, 1 Apr 1955 and typescript copies of correspondence discussing war crimes and trials between M J Williams, Jesus College Oxford and Professor Howard J Gordon, Jr, Amhurst College, Massachusetts USA and with Reginald Thomas Paget, MP; correspondence of Liddell Hart including Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Alexander Clifford, Daily Mail; Vivian Gaster; Maj J D Bateman; Prof James Ramsay Montagu Butler; with newspaper cuttings including of 'Germany and Western defence' letter to editor of The Times by Liddell Hart, 11 Mar 1952. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/156
Condition of German officers, unpublished letter to The Times by Liddell Hart concerning World War Two War Crimes Trials with associated newspaper cuttings. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/157
'Judgment at Nuremberg' letter to The Times by Liddell Hart, 18 Oct 1946 concerning World War Two war crimes trials, and the hanging of German Col Gen Alfred Jodl; with following correspondence including 'The case of Jodl' letter to the editor of The Times by Liddell Hart, 25 Oct 1997; 'Gen Jodl' The Times, 17 Oct 1966; with correspondence including Geoffrey Dorling Roberts, R W Alston; Alisdair MacKechnie; A E Saunders-Singer; Anne Chalmers Bennet-Clark; B V Glacken; C Wheatley; Judith Zistowel; Maj Timothy Florence Breen and Dr Gerhard Baumann. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/158
Correspondence by Liddell Hart to The Manchester Guardian editor Alfred Powell Wadsworth, relating to conditions of German officers and World War Two war crimes trials, including 'Imprisoned German generals,' 20 Aug 1948, including letter by Liddel Hart to Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S Eliot). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/159
Correspondence to The Times on conditions of German officers and World War Two war crimes trials including 'Imprisoned generals' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Times, 16 Aug 1948; 'War crimes' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Times, 9 Sep 1948; 'The German generals' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Times, 21 Sep 1948; and 'German war crimes' letter by Liddell Hart, Professor (George) Gilbert (Aimé) Murray, Victor Gollanz and Richard Rapier Stokes, MP to editor of The Times, 16 Nov 1948; with other correspondence including Murray and Maj Gen Charles Anderson Lane Dunphie. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/160
'Von Manstein's trial, the court's findings examined' letter to The Times by Liddell Hart, 11 Jan 1950, relating to German FM Fritz Erich von Manstein with with associated newspaper cuttings and correspondence including Von Manstein; William Francis Casey, editor of The Times; Lt Col Patrick Richard Butler; Bernard W H Pratt; H S Redlich; Gilbert Armitage;Franz von Hertzberg; German Naval Capt Karl Hinckeldeyn and V Adm Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/161
'The War Trials' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Manchester Guardian concerning World War Two war crimes trials, with associated newspaper cuttings and correspondence including German Naval Capt Karl Hinckeldeyn. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/162
'The German Soldier' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Times, 22 Sep 1951 concerning behaviour of German Army in World War Two, reprinted with headline 'Reputation of the German army, no loss of honour' The Times, 26 Sep 1951; with associated newspaper cuttings and correspondence including Irene Rathbone; W J Kelly; J W Read; Sidney Salomon; Maj Gen Sir William Louis Oberkirch Twiss; Professor (George) Gilbert (Aimé) Murray; Rev Sir Charles Henry Bentinck; Hazel Lyon; Timothy Florence Breen; and Ada Rief. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/163
Typescript letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Manchester Guardian, with reply 'Germany and Western defence' by Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, MP, 17 Mar 1952, concerning use of German soldiers for defence of West. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/164
Papers relating to the Nuremberg war crimes trials including Agreement by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European axis (London, HMSO, 8 Aug 1945), i ncluding the charter of the international military tribunal; Indictment presented to the International Military tribunal sitting at Berlin on 18th October 1945 (London, HMSO, Nov 1945) presented ' against Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp von Bholen und Halbach, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Papen, Artur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche, individually and as members of any of the following groups or organisations to which they respectively belonged, namely: Die reichsrigierung (Reich cabinet); Das korps der politischen leiter der nationalsozialistischen Deutschen arbeiterpartei (Leadership corps of the Nazi party); Die schutzstaffeln der nationalsozialistischen Deutschen arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the "SS") and including Die sicherheitsdienst (commonly known as the "SD") and Die geheime staatspolizei (Secret state police, commonly known as the "Gestapo"); Die sturmabteilungen der NSDAP (commonly known as the "SA") and the General staff and high command of the German armed forces'; with associated newspaper cuttings including, 'Great Nuremberg war trial opens,' The Times, 21 Nov 1945. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/165
Nuremberg war crimes trials, newspaper cuttings detailing testimony in court. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/166
Nuremberg war crimes trials, papers relating to final stage, including 'Text of closing address of US chief of counsel' issued by US Information Service, 31 Jul 1946; 'Final US argument on Nazi organisations' issued by US Information Service, 23 Sep 1946; with newspaper and journal cuttings including the Soviet prosecutor's concluding speech Soviet News, London, 31 Jul-1Aug 1946;'11 Nazi leaders to be hanged' The Times, 2 Oct 1946. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/167
Nuremberg trials, related papers, mostly newspaper and journal cuttings including 'The Nuremberg trial' by Rt Hon Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey of Oaksey International Affairs, Apr 1947; 'What Goering and Co talk about in their cells' by Dr Douglas M Kelley, Chief Psychiatrist at the Nuremberg trials Sunday Express, 25 Aug 1946; 'Eye-witness impression of the Nuremberg trial' and 'How the war criminals heard their fate' both by Rebecca West, novelist Daily Telegraph, 27 Sep and 2 Oct 1946, including issue promoting book Failure at Nuremberg by Facts, a fortnightly digest issued by the British People Party, 15 Oct 1946; including correspondence with Rt Hon Philip J Noel-Baker, MP, Foreign Office. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/168
Newspaper cuttings and reports of parliamentary debates relating to the proposed trial of German Field Marshals Walther von Brauchitsch, (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, Fritz Erich von Manstein and Col Gen Adolf Strauss, also the trial of Von Manstein; with extracts from Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) including 'German generals (trial)' House of Commons, 26 Oct 1948; 'Motion - trial of German generals' House of Lords, 2 Nov 1948; 'Motion - German war crimes trials' House of Lords, 5 May 1949 and 'Motion - Japanese war crime trials' House of Lords, 19 May 1949
LIDDELL: 9/24/169
Newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the proposed trial of relating to the proposed trial of German Field Marshals Walther von Brauchitsch, (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, Fritz Erich von Manstein and Col Gen Adolf Strauss, with papers including 'The Field-marshals' by Marion, Gräfin Donhoff; with correspondence including Hannelene Bremer, A B Hansen, Gerhard Leyrer; Dr Christoph Freiherr von Imhoff; including 'Shall we make martyrs of the German marshals?' by Very Rev William Ralph Inge Evening Despatch, 2 Sep 1948 and 'Release for Rundstedt and Strauss, Manstein to stand his trial' Daily Telegraph, 6 May 1949. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/170
Correspondence relating to the proposed trial of German Field Marshals Walther von Brauchitsch, (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, Fritz Erich von Manstein and Col Gen Adolf Strauss, and the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, with associated newspaper cuttings; correspondence including Arthur J Cummings, News Chronicle; Dr Otto A W John; Maj Denis B Topham; Lt Gen Sir Francis (Ivan Simms) Tuker; Capt Russell Grenfell, RN; Hon Lady Isobel Cripps, wife of Rt Hon Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Rt Rev Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham; Frank Laurence Lucas; Henry Noel Brailsford; Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S Eliot); Pierse Creagh Loftus; Sir Osbert Sitwell; Mary Catherine Inge, wife of Very RevWilliam Ralph Inge; Lt Gen Hugh Gray Martin; Douglas Jerrold, Director, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, publishers; AF William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell and the Countess Patricia Helen Russell, his wife; John Gwynne; Sir Andrew McFadyean; Rt Hon (Robert) Anthony Eden, MP; Charles Grey Grey; Hilde Sloane; FM William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes; Dr K P Novottny; Frederick Bieri, Central Agency for POWs, International Committee of the Red Cross; Lt Col S A Welton; (Harold) Montgomery Belgion; Col C E A S Rocke; Rt Hon William Allen Jowitt, 1st Viscount Jowitt of Stevenage; Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, War Office; T C P Corder Catchpool; Mary B Foss, Prisoners of War Assistance Society; Hildegard Lehmkuhl; Adm Sir Barry Edward Domvile; Percy W Bodker; [Dema] Carrington Hill; Brig Gen Percy Vere Powys Stone; Sir William Bradshaw, Justice of the Peace; Betty Allen, Prisoners of War Assistance Society; J C Drew; Capt Robert Gordon-Canning; Robert Barton; Albert Hyamson; Beryl de Zoete; Anne C Bennett Clark; Dr James J Dwyer; Guy P Holden; George M H Davies; John E Duffield; Arthur Hanson; Maj J B Paget; C V Reynold; Cedric Drewe, MP; A E Irwin; Cdr A F Burnell-Nugent, RN; Lt Col J Ainslie Williams; Evelyn Nigel Chetwode Birch, MP; Brig Antony Henry Head; Frederick John Partington Veale; Edith Loeh; Eric Henri Kennington and (Edith) Celandine Kennington; F H Hamblin; James Batten, Dr W Kirchenberger and Victor Gollancz, publisher. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/171
Correspondence relating to defence counsel for the proposed trial of German Field Marshals Walther von Brauchitsch, (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Rundstedt, Fritz Erich von Manstein and Col Gen Adolf Strauss, correspondence including Richard Charles Dickens Shuckburgh; Charles Fletcher Cooke; Carelton Kemp Allen and Rt Hon Sir Leslie (Frederic) Scott. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/172
Official documents relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein including Official transcript of testimony for the defense of organizations, taken before a commission appointed by the international military tribunal, 3 Jul 1946, commissioner George R Taylor; Examination of Fritz Erich von Lewinski, called Von Manstein during the international military tribunal, Nuremburg (vol 20), examination by Col Taylor and Dr Hans Laternser; charge sheet listing 17 charges against Von Manstein and comments on the charges. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/173
Dr Paul Leverkuehn, FM Fritz Erich von Manstein's counsel, correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to the trial of Von Manstein, including note 'War crimes trials and peace' by Leverkuehn in typescript, Sep 1950. See also Liddell Hart 9/27/1 relating to The Soviet army, edited by Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/174
Verteidigung Manstein (Defence of Manstein) by Dr Paul Leverkuehn (H H Nolke, 1950), a pamphlet in German relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein by his defence counsel. 1 volume
LIDDELL: 9/24/175
Dr Alfred K Schacht, assistant to Dr Paul Leverkuehn, FM Fritz Erich von Manstein's counsel; correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to the trial of Von Manstein. See also LH 1/563 Reginald Thomas Paget, MP, Von Manstein's British counsel. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/176
Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, with table comparing rules for Spandau prison with those of English prisons and typescript note, 'The present situation of ex-POWs and war criminals, what actions can be taken?' 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/177
Victor Gollancz, publisher; correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, with other correspondence including Herbert Read, Director, Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, publishers and Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/178
Richard Rapier Stokes, MP; correspondence with Liddell Hart relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein; also letters from Stokes to editor of the Manchester Guardian entitled, 'Imprisoned Nazis,' 28 Sep 1948, and 'Imprisoned Nazis' 7 Oct 1948. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/179
Notes by Liddell Hart relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, including typescript 'Justice and fairness, basic reflections on the question of the procedure of the so-called "war crimes" trial'; with correspondence including R G Jessell, Manchester Guardian; Charlotte von Brauchitsch, wife of German FM Walther von Brauchitsch; William Philip Sidney, 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley; Siegfried Erber and Maj Gen Douglas Ashton Lofft Wade, senior member of court at trial. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/180
Cuttings relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, including 'Charges against Manstein, seventeen counts,' Manchester Guardian, 26 May 1949; 'Von Manstein's trial' letter to editor of The Times by Paul Leverhuehn, FM Fritz Erich von Manstein's counsel, 11 July 1949; 'The last chance to teach Germans who lost the war' by Anthony Marreco, 'Barrister at Nuremberg in 1945, Chief Staff Officer to the Political Adviser to the British Military Governor of Germany and British member of the Four-Powered Directorate of Internal Affairs, 1945-1949,' Sunday Express, 21 Aug 1949; correspondence between Liddell Hart and John Rutherford Gordon, editor Sunday Express. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/181
Press reviews of Manstein: his campaigns and his trial by Reginald Thomas Paget, MP (Collins, London, 1951), relating to the trial of FM Fritz Erich von Manstein, by his British counsel, including '"Superior orders"' letter to editor of the Manchester Guardian by (Harold) Montgomery Belgion; with correspondence between Liddell Hart and Belgion. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/182
Correspondence relating to German soldiers' pension rights by Liddell Hart, including typescript, 'The legal question concerning the pensions of the former members of the Wehrmacht,' by Rosenberg, with correspondence including German Adm Gottfried Hansen; Theodor Steltzer; Cdr Sir Stephen King-Hall RN; Lindlay-Fraser, BBC; The Reverend G M P Hamilton; Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Alfred Powell Wadsworth, editor, Manchester Guardian and Erna von Kersting; with copy of letter from Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, 2nd Bt Robertson to MRAF William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/183
Cuttings on war crimes trials and release of war criminals 1945-1968, including, 'Foreign Office oppose trial of Hitler as a war criminal,' Sunday Express, 14 Jan 1945; 'Germany now almost split in two,' Manchester Guardian, 14 Apr 1945; 'Europe's Jewry, over 5,000,000 put to death,' Manchester Guardian, 25 Apr 1945; '3000 Nazis as war criminals,' Manchester Guardian, 1 Jun 1945; 'Death sentence on Quisling trial, first Norwegian traitor,' The Times, 11 Sep 1945; 'Doctor describes routine of gas chambers,' Manchester Guardian, 2 Oct 1945; 'The new laender,' British Zone Review, [Apr 1945], with map showing Germany divided into British, American, French and Russian zones; 'Sentences at Nuremberg, terms of three to 25 years,' The Times, 14 Apr 1949; 'Australia's war crime trials' by John Paton, News Chronicle, 17 Mar 1950; 'Clemency for war ciminal, Von Mackensen (German Col-Gen Eberhard von Mackensen) released' The Times, 1 Oct 1952, and 'Another 500 cases against Nazi war criminals,' by Norman Crossland, Guardian, 10 Mar 1964. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/184
United States Military Tribunal 5 sitting in the Palace of Justice, Nurnberg, German, Judgement of the Tribunal, 27-28 Oct 1948, official documents in English of 'Case Number 12'; fourteen defendants, including Wilhelm von Leeb, Hugo Sperrle, Georg Karl Friedrich-Wilhelm von Kuechler, Johannes Blaskowitz, Hermann Hoth, Hans Reinhardt, Hans von Salmuth, Karl Hollidt, Otto Schniewind, Karl von Roques, Hermann Reinecke, Walter Warlimont, Otto Woehler and Rudolf Lehmann, 334 pages including judgements. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/185
Petition on behalf of German Gen Hermann Hoth to Gen Lucius D Clay, Military governor of the American zone of occupation in Germany, in English, made by Hoth's defence counsel, Dr Heinz Müller-Torgow, 3 Nov 1948, including letters from Müller-Torgow to Liddell Hart. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/186
German FM Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb; case before American Military Tribunal 5 at Nuremberg; official documents including opening statement and final plea by Leeb's defence counsel, Dr Hans Laternser. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/187
Correspondence relating to German Adm Schniewind case, Nuremberg; including Liddell Hart's correspondence with E A Breuning; Hans Meckel; Capt Russell Grenfell, RN and US Maj Robert G Schaefer, Chief Defense Center, Office of Military Government (US), Secretariat for Military Tribunals, Nürnberg, Germany. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/188
German Gen Walter Warlimont case, Nuremberg; related papers including, 'Excerpts from the judgment of the tribunal,' 27-28 Oct 1948, concerning Warlimont; 'Petition to the military governor for Walter Warlimont,' replying to charges, 28 Nov 1948, by Dr Walter Schmitt, assistant to defence counsel, Dr Paul Leverkuehn; with appendices including an affadavit by Werner von Tippelskirch; correspondence between Liddell Hart and defence counsel Dr Paul Leverkuehn. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/189
Correspondence between Dr Hans Laternser, defence counsel for a number of Germans, and Liddell Hart; chiefly concerning Luftwaffe FM Albert Kesselring and German FM Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/190
Luftwaffe FM Albert Kesselring trial in Venice, related papers; also trials in Rome of German Col-Gen Eberhard von Mackensen and German Lt Gen Kurt Mälzer; file including 'Closing address in the trial against FM Albert Kesselring before a British war crimes court in Venice delivered by Dr Hans Laternser,' [Mar 1947]; 'Petition for FM Kesselring and Gens von Mackensen and Mälzer submitted by Dr Hans Laternser,' 26 Mar 1949 with affadavits by Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels, Dr Fritz Pfrommer and Hans Keller, German and English versions; 'The Kesselring case being a re-presentation of the trial in Venice, Italy' spring 1947 by Lt Col A[lexander] P[aterson] Scotland - file including correspondence between Liddell Hart and Scotland; cuttings relating to trials including 'Kesselring to be shot,' Daily Telegraph, 7 May 1947; 'A reprieve for Kesselring,' The Times, 5 Jul 1947; 'Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring Präsident des Stahlhelm,' Stahlhelm, Aug 1952, in German, and 'Kesselring on TV, I could have won,' News Chronicle, 11 Nov 1954. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/191
German FM Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist; papers including transcript of manuscript dated 'Belgrade, end of July, 1948; correspondence with Liddell Hart including Dr Hans Laternser; Reginald Thomas Paget, MP; Dr John D A Barnicot, director, Books department, British Council; Heinrich Bruning and Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; with The Times obituary of Von Kleist, 6 Nov 1954. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/192
German Adm Dönitz and German Adm Räder, war crimes trial cases; correspondence including F J P Veale; Rt Hon Lt Col Sir Maurice (Pascal Alers) Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart and Francois Genoud; with cuttings including 'Release of former Admiral Raeder,' The Times, 27 Sep 1955. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/193
German Gen Alexander von Falkenhausen, German military commander in Belgium, and German Gen Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German Commander-in-Chief in Norway; correspondence and cuttings relating to trials; correspondence including Capt Herbert Sulzbach; Capt R N B Brett-Smith and H M Falconer; with note on war crimes case of German Maj Gen Bernhard von Claer, commander in Belgium. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/194
German Rudolf Hess; cuttings relating to his flight to Britain, 1941, and subsequent events including 'Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, dies in plane,' Daily Sketch, 13 May 1941; 'Nazi myth on Hess mission,' Daily Telegraph, 17 May 1941; 'Hess in a mental hospital,' by Eric Bennett, Sunday Express, 15 Apr 1945; 'The secret story of Rudolf Hess,' by (Thomas) James Leasor, series of articles in Sunday Express, parts 3-7, 2-30 Jul 1961; copy of statement by Liddell Hart appealing for release, 5 Feb 1968 and correspondence with Wolf Rüdiger Hess, Rudolf's son. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/195
German Lt Col Fritz Knöchlein, of the SS; papers relating to war crimes including typescript, 'Bericht über vorgänge im London-District cage (LDC) - (Statement about occurrences in the London District Cage (LDC)),' by Knöchlein, in German and English; 'Grounds for the petition' on Knöchlein's behalf by attorney Dr Gustav Uhde; correspondence and cuttings including 'Massacred British prisoners, Nazi Colonel [Knöchlein] to be hanged' The Times, 16 Oct 1948; 'Americans torture Germans to extort "confessions",' by Fred Redman Sunday Pictorial, 23 Jan 1949; correspondence including Hans Prager; copy of letter from Richard Rapier Stokes, MP to Rt Hon Ernest Bevin concerning Knöchlein; Dr Gustav Uhde; copy of letter by Cardinal Joseph Frings, Archbishop of Cologne to Lt Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Commander-in-Chief, British Zone of Occupation in Germany and Reginald Thomas Paget. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/196
German FM Wilhelm List, war crimes case; papers including, 'Final plea submitted to American Military Tribunal no 5,' in Nuremberg by Dr Hans Laternser, defence counsel for German FM Wilhelm List discussing situation in Greece and Balkans during World War Two; obituary for List, The Times, 18 Aug 1971. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/197
Constantin von Neurath, Hitler's Foreign Minister, papers concerning war crimes including memorandum on Von Neurath by Winifred von Mackensen [Von Neurath's daughter], 15 Oct 1950; 'Report by British commandant of conditions at Spandau prison with reference to Frau von Mackensen's memorandum,' 16 Jan 1951; cuttings including, 'A national welcome, Von Neurath's homecoming,' Manchester Guardian, 8 Nov 1954. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/198
Albert Speer, architect and German minister for Armaments and Munitions, 1942-1945; cuttings including, 'Will he be free next month? and 'Success story!' by Denis Sefton Delmer, Daily Express, 12-13 Apr 1965; 'Hitler as I knew him,' by Speer, Daily Telegraph, series of articles, 21 Sep-2 Nov 1969, incomplete, including parts 1-7 ; also correspondence with Speer and Barrie Pitt. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/199
German Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, State Secretary for German Foreign Office, then Ambassador to the Vatican; papers concerning war crimes including, 'Final statement made by Ernst von Weizsaecker on Nov 18, 1948'; typescript of motion appealing his sentence at Nuremberg trial, 14 Apr 1949; with cuttings including, 'Sentence on Weizsaecker, reduction to five years,' The Times, 3 Feb 1950. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/200
Papers relating to French war crimes trials, including case of Otto Abetz, German Ambassador to occupied France, and trial in Feb 1953 of 22 German SS soldiers over massacre of 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, Jun 1944; cuttings including, 'Last trials of collaborators in France,' by Frank MacDermot, Sunday Times, 24 Apr 1949; 'The Brest case, a case [sic] Ramcke,' Die Andere Seite, 21 Jan 1951, in English, complete issue number 1; copies of correspondence by Karl-Henry Lendroth concerning German SS Maj Heinz Werner accused by French government of war crimes in Jun 1944; typescript of statement by Ruth Ramcke, wife of Gen H B Ramcke on his behalf. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/201
Correspondence concerning German Waffen SS Gen Gen Will Bittrich, Commander of 9 Panzer Div, Arnhem and German Waffen SS Col Walter Harzer at Arnhem 1944, including report by wife of Bittrich 'On the first visit ... to my husband, Gen Will Bittrich, at the French prison hospital in Emendingen, Baden, after nine months of solitary confinement', Mar 1949; correspondence including Right Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Maj Gen Robert Elliott Urquhart; Col Graeme M Warrack; Dr Lorenz; Maj Eric Charles O'Callaghan; Lt Col Guy Rigby-Jones. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/202
Germany; correspondence and papers relating to war crimes, including Landesberg, a documentary report (Office of the United States Commission for Germany, Frankfurt, Germany, 1951) reporting sentences of those confined in Landsberg prison who were convicted of war crimes by the military tribunals at Nuremberg; German Maj Gen Adolf Westhoff, affadavit concerning his position of Chief of Affairs of POWs in OKW; German Maj Friedrich Busse, Commander of British POW Labour Battery in Blechhammer, where British POWs worked in a synthetic petrol factory; other affadavits relating to German Lt Gen Kurt Wolff; Circular letter no. 22 by Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt, Honorary Secretary, Committee of the German League for the Rights of Man, Aug 1945; 'The fifth column remains active,' Spanish News Letter, London, 17 Nov 1945; 'German treatment of prisoners of war 1940-1945,' by Victor Campbell in typescript; The re-education of German prisoners of war (Foreign Office, Aldwych London, 1945); 'Wilton Park training centre,' address by Maj Gen Kenneth William Dobson Strong, Director General, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, to German POWs, 17 Jan 1946; Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion rufen das Gewissen der Welt! [1951] booklet in four languages including English concerning German POWs in the Soviet Union; memorandum to United Nations by Ward Hermans concerning wartime collaboration in Belgium translated from Flemish; Two expertises [sic, reports?] relating to the archives of the Teutonic order and the ancient Prussian duchy by Herbert Kraus, and Erich Weise (Göttingen, Germany, 1949), in English; Petition to United States District Court, District of Columbia on behalf of Lothar Eisentrager, alias Ludwig Ehrhart and 20 others concerning legal rights as prisoners of war; The Malmédy Trial by Dietrich Ziemssen (Munich Germany, 1952) concerning Germans of 6 Panzer Army convicted of war crimes and imprisoned at Landsberg/Lech; Übersicht über die Finanz- und Haushaltslage des Bundes und der Länder in Rechnungsjahr 1950, in German published by the West German government; The release of Nazi war criminals, the men and their background, Brig Gen John Hartman Morgan, Honorary Adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nuremberg in 1947, reprint of series of article from Daily Mail 6-9 Mar 1951; with cuttings in German and English concerning Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain, former British Prime Minister; Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, and Germans imprisoned at Landsberg; correspondence including Orin W Kaye, Jr and Joseph Polakoff, United States Information Service, American Embassy, London; Paul Mast; German Col-Gen Gotthard Heinrici; Bernhard-Georg Meitzel; Heinz Meuller-Torgow with note on judgment in OKW trial; Brigitte Krüger; Wolf Schenke; William Watson Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson of Westgate in the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Foreign Office; Margaret C Wolff, including 'A plea for clemency for the case of [German] Lt Gen Kurt Wolff,'; Trygve Gunderson; copy of letter to Rt Hon Lt Col Sir Maurice (Pascal Alers) Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart by Alexander Ritter, dated Sofia, Bulgaria 1940; copy of letter from Arne Bergsvik to Cyril Clemens concerning case of Norwegian poet, Knut Hamsun; Professor Lewis Bernstein Namier; Heinrich Bucksch; H D Ziman, Daily Telegraph; (Harold) Montgomery Belgion and Frederick John Partington Veale with cutting, 'Italian white book on the Major Reder case,' by Veale from Social Justice Review, Nov 1962 concerning German Maj Walter Reder. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/203
Miscellaneous documents relating to World War One, 1914-1918, and World War Two, 1939-1945, principally comprising postcards, notably of photographs and portraits of Austrian and German generals, [1912-1918]; German Army map, 1917, [with markings showing the German advance on Mons, 1917]; photographs of Hitler, [1940]; text of 'Thoughts on the new world', Gen Jan Christiaan Smuts' address to members of the UK branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, Nov 25 1943, published jointly by The Times and the Daily Express; signed photograph of German Lt Gen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, 1949. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/204
Photographs, postcards, copies of photographs and other papers relating to German generals and senior army personnel, notably Gen Günther Blumentritt, FM Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar, Gen Heinz Guderian, Lt Gen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, FM Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel and FM Gerd von Rundstedt. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/205
Press cuttings and other papers relating to German history and culture, including cuttings of articles and book reviews relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Adolf Hitler and the Krupp family; pamphlet on 'The development of Germanophobia' by Michael F Connors, [reprinted from a journal, 1961-1962]; typescript notes on The German Army by Herbert Rosinski (Hogarth Press, London, 1939). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/206
Papers relating to the Schlieffen plan, the German operational war plan prepared by Gen Count Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the German General Staff, 1905, principally comprising papers relating to The Schlieffen Plan by Gerhard Ritter, with foreword by Liddell Hart (Oswald Wolff, London, 1958), including manuscript and typescript of Liddell Hart's foreword, [1958], correspondence, 1956-1958, and press reviews, 1958-1959; 'Pattern for limited (nuclear) war: the riddle of the Schlieffen Plan', series of articles by Capt Graeme Chamley Wynne, from the Royal United Service Institution Journal, 1957-1958, with related correspondence. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/207
Papers relating to Germany during World War One, 1914-1918, mainly articles or press cuttings of reviews relating to Kaiser Wilhelm II, FM Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg and Gen Erich Ludendorff; typescript [translation] of Gen Georg Wetzell's answers to a questionnaire concerning Ludendorff and German war strategy, 1917-1918, dated 1938; letters to Liddell Hart from Gen B Mueller-Hillebrand and Gen Günther Blumentritt, concerning mobilisation of German military forces in 1914, dated 1953. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/208
Papers relating to Germany, 1919-1939, principally comprising articles or press cuttings concerning strength of German military forces, German military and foreign policy and the rise of Nazism in Germany, dated 1932, 1936, 1949-1969; notes and texts written or collected by Liddell Hart concerning German foreign policy and the development of the German Army in the inter-war period, dated [1929-1958]; letters from Gen Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg and Lt Gen Hasso-Eccard Manteuffel replying to Liddell Hart's questionnaire on organisation of Panzer formations, dated 1952; With press cutting on Communist coup in Czecholovakia, 1948, dated 1949. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/209
Papers relating to the German Army, 1919-1939, principally comprising press cuttings concerning German military policy, 1922-1939; unattributed typescript texts on German breaches of the military conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919, dated 1933. With 'A glimpse at the machinery of revolution' by Capt Lawrence Chenevix-Trench, article on socialist and communist activity in Germany, 1918, from The Royal Engineers Journal, 1923. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/210
Press cuttings relating to Germany, 1927-1939, mainly reports on political developments in Germany, particularly the rise of the Nazi Party, 1927-1933, and the Nazi regime's implementation of its foreign, economic and racial policies, 1933-1939. 3 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/211
Press cuttings relating to the Saar territory and its restoration to German authority, 1935, including coverage of the run-up to the League of Nations plebiscite in the Saar, Jan 1935, and the movement of German military forces into the area, 1936. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/212
Press cuttings relating to Germany's demands for the return of German colonies mandated under the Treaty of Versailles, 1919, dated 1936-1939. With cuttings from The Times on relations between Rumania and Poland, 1938, on a speech by Sir Samuel Hoare on Anglo-German relations, Oct 1938, on German reaction to Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit to Italy, 1939, and on anti-German demonstrations in Danzig and Poland, 1939. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/213
Press cuttings relating to the German economy, 1938-1939, mainly reports on trade, industry, transport and agriculture in Germany. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/214
Press cuttings relating to German relations with other European countries and with the USA, 1938-1939, mainly on Anglo-German relations. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/215
Press cuttings and other papers relating to Austro-German relations, 1934-1938, mainly the German invasion and annexation of Austria, 1938. With article from The Contemporary Review, [1938], on the work of Gen Gömbös, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1932-[1938].
LIDDELL: 9/24/216
Papers relating to Czech-German relations, 1936-1939, principally comprising press cuttings on the dispute in Czechoslovakia over the future of the Sudetenland; 'German and Czech: a threat to European peace' by Shiela Grant Duff, New Fabian Research Bureau pamphlet no 36 (Victor Gollanz and New Fabian Research Bureau, London, 1937). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/217
Papers relating to the German campaign in Western Europe, 1940, including typescript texts and reprints and cuttings of journal articles, 1954-1960, notably on the development of German plans for the offensive in Western Europe, 1940, and on the armistice between France and Germany, Jun 1940; typescript translation of memorandum from Hitler to German High Command outlining his plans for a campaign in North West Europe, 1939 (copy at 9/24/233); unsigned typescript account of action of 60 Infantry Regt, French Army, at d'Ailly-sur-Somme, Jun 1940, written in Sep 1940; unsigned typescript memorandum on German tactics and strategy, 1940, written in [1940]. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/218
Papers relating to the German invasion of Northern France, May 1940, particularly the halt order given by Hitler to German armoured forces south of Dunkirk, including typescript texts by US R Adm Walter Ansel, US Capt Robert B Asprey and others, [1949-1957]; reprints and cuttings of journal articles by Jacques Mordal, V Adm Kurt Assmann and others, [1955-1960]; letters to Liddell Hart from Gen Fritz Bayerlein and Gen Günther Blumentritt, 1949-1950, 1954, typescript extracts from letters from Gen Heinz Guderian, 1949; correspondence between Liddell Hart and Brig Henry B Latham, Cabinet Office Historical Section, 1949-1950. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/219
Papers relating to German plans for the invasion of Britain (Operation SEA-LION), 1940, and to Battle of Britain, 1940, including typescript texts by Gen Günther Blumentritt, Adm Theodor Krancke and others, [1940-1957]; cuttings of journal and newspaper articles by Peter Fleming, Jacques Mordal and others, [1947]-1961; typescript translations of extracts from German High Command directives and orders, 1940; 'The Battle for Britain', script of radio programme by Reginald William Winchester Wilmot (Chester Wilmot), [1945]. With typescript notes from Intelligence Training Centre War Intelligence Course on probable tactics of German forces in an invasion of the UK, 1942.
LIDDELL: 9/24/220
Papers relating to German operations in the Balkans, 1941 and 1944, comprising typescript text on the campaign of German 12 Army in the Balkans, 1941, written by Ernst Wisshaupt, [1945-1950]; typescript text on Panzer Grenadier Div Grossdeutschland in the Battle of Targul Frumos, Rumania, May 1944, written by German Lt Gen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, 1948. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/221
Papers relating to German operations in North Africa, 1941-1943, including typescript texts and cuttings of journal articles by Warner Stark, Adolphe Goutard and others, (1950-1961); correspondence between Liddell Hart and Gen H von Ravenstein, Gen Sir Frank Walter Messervy, German Gen Alfred Gause and others, 1954-1958. With papers relating to operations in Sicily, 1943, notably cutting of journal article by Lt Gen Fridolin Rudolf T von Senger und Etterlin, 1950. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/222
Papers relating to the German invasion of Poland, 1939, and to German operations on the Russian Front, 1941-1944, including typescript copy of a letter to Liddell Hart from a US [journalist] recounting his experiences during the German invasion of Poland, Sep 1939, dated Oct 29 1939; copy of typescript transcript of [telegrams sent and received by German forces], Stalingrad, Nov 1942-Feb 1943; typescript translations of [German Army] memoranda on the formation and tactics of Soviet forces, 1942-1944; cuttings of journal articles by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and others. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/223
Papers relating to operations in North West Europe, 1944-1945, including typescript translations of German Army documents, 1944, mainly weekly situation reports; typescript notes and texts collected by Liddell Hart, [1944-1963], notably relating to German operations in Normandy, France, 1944, to the Battle of Arnhem, Netherlands, Sep 1944, and the Ardennes Offensive, Dec 1944-Jan 1945, and to operations around Halbe, Germany, 1945. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9//24/224
'Hitler and his secret weapons', copy of unattributed typescript text (additional copy at 9/224/233). 5 pp
LIDDELL: 9/24/225
Typescript notes by M J Williams on German casualty statistics during World War Two, with letter to Liddell Hart concerning the difficulty of obtaining such information from the Cabinet Office. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/226
Papers relating to the German armed forces during World War Two, including typescript notes on German armament production and the organisation of the German Army, [1945-1955]; typescript extracts on the German artillery from a letter from Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar, 1948; typescript translation of Gen B Mueller-Hillebrand's replies to a questionnaire on the organisation of German Panzer formations, 1952 (see also 9/24/227). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/227
Papers relating to German armoured fighting vehicles during World War Two, including typescript texts and notes on the organisation and development of German armoured formations by Richard Marian Ogorkiewicz, M J Williams and others, 1950-1961; journal articles by Lt Gen Fridolin Rudolf T von Senger und Etterlin [1952]; typescript translation of Gen B Mueller-Hillebrand's replies to a questionnaire on the organisation of German Panzer formations, 1952 (see also 9/24/226); copy of German Army directive by Gen Heinz Guderian on the use of Panzer units, 1944; 'Illustrated record of German Army equipment 1939-1945 vol 3: armoured fighting vehicles', handbook published by the War Office, 1947. 2 files
LIDDELL: 9/24/228
Papers relating to German airborne operations in World War Two, including Intelligence Training Centre War Intelligence Course notes on German airborne troops, [1942]; typescript translation of text by Gen Kurt Student, 1948; journal articles by Jean Vanwelkenhuizen and others, 1954, 1965. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/229
Papers relating to the German Army's signals and intelligence services during World War Two, including typescript texts on the signal services by Gen Günther Blumentritt and Gen Albert Praun, 1952, 1955, and press cuttings relating to the intelligence services, 1959, 1960. With German psychological warfare: survey and bibliography edited by Ladislas Farago (Committee for National Morale, New York, 1941) and covering letter, 1942, and Deutsche National-Zeitung vol 1 no 10, 7 Dec 1953, including 'Der zweite Weltkrieg war vermeidbar' by Helmut Steinberg. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/230
Papers relating to the German Air Force, 1933-1945, and air operations in World War Two, including confidential reports prepared by Assistant Director of Intelligence, Air Ministry and US Air Interrogation using information obtained from POWs, 1945, notably on German Air Force organisation and tactics, the German Air Force interrogation centre at Oberursels and the results of Allied air operations during World War Two; Air Ministry press releases, 1947, mainly translations of captured German documents, including diary of Lt Gen der Flieger Karl Koller, German Chief of Air Staff, Apr-May 1945; journal article by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen on the bombing of Rotterdam, May 1940, dated 1958. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/231
Papers relating to German naval operations in World War Two, including typescript notes on Germam naval war effort, [1945-1955]; Admiralty press releases, 1946-1947, notably essays on German naval operations by V Adm Weichbold and Grand Adm Karl Doenitz, 1945, and translations of German documents relating to the resignation of Grand Adm Erich Raeder, 1943; journal articles on U-boat operations by Capt Lt Herman Rasch and V Adm Leo Kreisch, 1950; German, Italian and Japanese U-boat casualties during the War: particulars of destruction, Cmd 6843 (HMSO, London, 1946).1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/232
Papers relating to German opposition to Adolf Hitler, 1933-1945, particularly within the armed forces, principally comprising journal articles by Hildegard Boeninger and V Adm Kurt Assmann on Hitler's relationship with the German Army, 1954, 1956; 'The Church and the resistance movement in Germany', text of lecture by Rt Rev George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, 1957; papers relating to the attempted assassination of Hitler, 20 Jul 1940, dated 1945, including typescript extracts from Interim (British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Review), 1945-1946, typescript notes and texts collected by Liddell Hart, [1945-1965], press cuttings, 1944-1969, and journal articles, 1945, 1959. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/233
Papers relating to Hitler, principally comprising 'The secret correspondence of Hitler and Mussolini', script of radio programme by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper and Terence Tiller, 1947; 'England and Adolf Hitler', typescript [translation of] notes by Gen Günther Blumentritt, 1946; 'Hitler and his secret weapons', copy of unattributed typescript text, [1945-1955] (additional copy at 9/24/224); typescript translation of memorandum from Hitler to German High Command outlining his plans for a campaign in North West Europe, 1939 (copy at 9/24/217). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/234
Press cuttings relating to Adolf Hitler's speeches, 1938-1944. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/235
Press cuttings relating to the last year of Adolf Hitler's life, 1944-1945, particularly the circumstances surrounding his death, Apr 1945. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/236
Press cuttings relating to Adolf Hitler, including reviews of books on Hitler. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/237
Papers relating to Joseph Paul Goebbels, Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda, Germany, 1933-1945, principally comprising press cuttings, 1947-1949, 1960, 1965, mainly reviews of books on Goebbels; copies and typescript translations of extracts from Goebbel's diaries, 1942-1943. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/238
Press cuttings relating to Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/239
Press cuttings relating to Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, 1929-1945, and Minister of the Interior, Germany, 1943-1945, mainly reviews of books on Himmler and the Gestapo. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/240
Press cuttings relating to Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, mainly reviews of his Memoirs (Andre Deutsch, London, 1952). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/241
Press cuttings relating to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, Germany, 1938-1945, mainly reviews of The Ribbentrop memoirs (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1954). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/242
Press cuttings relating to Dr Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, mainly reviews of his memoirs My first seventy-six years (Allan Wingate, London, 1955). 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/243
Press cuttings relating to the German armed forces during World War Two, mainly concerning manpower, equipment, organisation and tactics of German Army, Navy and Air Force. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/244
Papers relating to the German High Command during World War Two, comprising press cuttings, 1939-1950, 1957, 1962, 1967, mainly concerning appointments and dismissals; brief manuscript notes by Liddell Hart, [1950-1960]. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/245
Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Germany, 1939-1940. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/246
Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Germany, 1941. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/247
Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Germany, 1942. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/248
Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Germany, 1943. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/249
Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Germany, 1944. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/250
Press cuttings relating to economic warfare during World War Two, 1940-1944, 1946, 1965, mainly the Allied blockade of Germany and German-occupied territories. With journal article on civil defence in Germany during World War Two, 1962. 1 file
LIDDELL: 9/24/251-252
Press cuttings relating to Allied attitudes towards the Germans, 1940-1943, mainly concerning the post-war treatment of Germany, including articles by Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham. 1 file