Conditions & politics in occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945

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About this resource

Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a fully searchable database of over 22,000 British Government records or almost 180,000 images or pages taken from PRO class FO 371 in The National Archives at Kew. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary research resource, and allows this unique primary source material (predominantly in English, but containing some documents in a variety of Western European languages) to be quickly accessed by academics and students, writers and researchers. In addition to document files from The National Archives this digital edition includes a picture gallery illustrating key British operations, SOE equipment and individuals, clips from Now it Can Be Told from the Imperial War Museum, London, showing actual SOE agents reconstructing sabotage and intelligence operations in occupied France, a film begun in complete secrecy in 1944 and released in 1946, and The Chronology and Index of the Second World War, 1938-1945, compiled by The Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Data Format: Text (HTML), images (still and moving), and search engine.

Subject headings

World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories--History--Sources--Databases.

World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history--Sources--Databases.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1936-1945--Sources--Databases.

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