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Transcript of Stalin's interview with Hopkins on July 31, 1941.
Text of the Act of the National Committee and the Proclamation of the National Committee of 28.10.1918
I will now turn to a situation that we are particularly interested in this afternoon. His Majesty's Government has expressed the view that recent events in Austria have created a new situation, and we consider it appropriate to state the conclusions to which our reflections on these events have led us.
This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed over a final note to the German government, stating that if we did not receive a guarantee from it within 11 o'clock that it was ready to withdraw troops from Poland immediately, a state of war would be declared between our countries. I must now inform you that no such commitment has been made, and as a result, this country is at war with Germany.
Our efforts will not stop or falter. We will fight to the end. We will fight in France and in the seas and oceans; we will fight in the air with increasing force and confidence. We will defend our island at all costs; we will fight on beaches, landing sites, in fields, in the streets and in the hills.
Excerpts from documents concluded between Germany and the Scandinavian states in the period before the outbreak of World War II.
The text of the non-concluded agreement between France, England and the USSR. Negotiations on this treaty were preceded by the conclusion of a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany.
Goebbles' speech delivered on February 18, 1943 to a nation in which he calls on the nation for a total war.
German abbreviations in documents + English and Czech equivalent with a focus on the Luftwaffe
The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics desirous of strengthening the cause of peace between Germany and the U.S.S.R., and proceeding from the fundamental provisions of the Neutrality Agreement concluded in April, 1926 between Germany and the U.S.S.R., have reached the following Agreement ...
It is my unchangeable decision to break Czechoslovakia militarily in the near future. It is the task of the political leadership to wait or bring the right moment from both a political and a military point of view.
Winter is knocking on the door, and it 's out of the question to see how the German Wehrmacht was preparing for the coming winter in 1942.
The decision to attack Poland was made in the spring. Originally, there were fears that due to the political situation we would have to strike at the same time against England, France, Russia and Poland. We could not afford such a risk. Göring showed us that his four-year plan would fail and that we would be on the brink of strength if we did not win in the coming war.
World War II begins
Another of A. Hitler's speeches, shortly after the outbreak of World War II
From now on, I personally take command of the entire Wehrmacht.
For a long time now, our enemies have been focusing on waging war with methods that are contrary to the international Geneva Convention. Members of the units, called Commandos and characterized by special brutality and intrigue, are recruited from criminal elements in their homeland, or even from exiles liberating enemy territory ...
The text of the declaration of war on imperial Japan in the USA and Great Britain.
Topics
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)
INT - 12.08.1949 - Dodatkový protokol k Ženevským úmluvám z 12. srpna 1949 o ochraně obětí ozbrojených konfliktů nemajících mezinárodní charakter (Protokol II)
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