Tuesday:
Prepare for Class
Read:
- Secondary Sources:
- Andrew Rossino, “THE GERMAN ARMY AND THE OPENING PHASE OF OPERATION TANNENBERG,” in Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity (University Press of Kansas, 2003).
- Primary Source:
- “Extracts from the Notebook of Colonel-General Halder,” in Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918: The Last Days of Peace, August 9-September 3, 1939, vol. 7 (Government Printing Office, 1956).
Thursday:
Prepare for Class
Read:
- Secondary Sources:
- Michael Reiman, “The USSR in the Second World War, 1941-1945,” in About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present (Peter Lang AG, 2016), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2t4dn7.11.
- Primary Sources:
- Molotov: Reaction to German Invasion of 1941
- Directive No. 21 Operation Barbarossa (December 18, 1940) (Make sure to click next to read full document)
- Martin Bormann’s Minutes of a Meeting at Hitler’s Headquarters (July 16, 1941) (Make sure to click next to read full document)