Alfred Vagts papers, 1934-1947

An issue of “The Polish Review” (The Polish Information Center, NY, NY) and “The Marines Have Landed,” from “The Atlantic Monthly,” by Captain Robert P. Parsons “This material was collected during service with Board of Economic Warfare. Among the matters within its competence was, at least for a time, the question of military government in American-occupied countries.”

1. “Commodities and Areas of Possible Supplies for Requirements of French North Africa” - 1942;
2. “Corporate Enterprises in French North Africa” - 1943;
3. “Economic Clauses of Armistice Agreements” - 1943;
4. “List of Professional Personnel” - 1942;
5. “The Office of Exports – Purpose and Organization” - 1942;
6. “Preliminary Report on Currency Problems of Occupation“ - 1942;
7. “Preliminary Statement of General Objectives and Operating Organization” - 1942;
8. “Recommendations for Monetary and Banking Reorganization in French North Africa” - 1942; and
9. “Shelflist of Foreign Technical Magazines” - 1942

Includes clippings and handwritten and typewritten pages. “This is a file assembled by A.V. during the time he served on the Board of Economic Warfare. Its purposes were forever vague, and at times post-war conditions and solutions were under discussion.”

1. “Age and the Field Command” (reprint – “Military Affairs”) - 1942;
2. “Battle and Other Combatant Casualties in the Second World War, I” (reprint – “The Journal of Politics”) - 1945;
3. “Battle and Other Combatant Casualties in the Second World War, II” (reprint – “The Journal of Politics”) - 1945;
4. “Construction and Other Labor Troops” (reprint – “Military Affairs”) (two copies) - 1945;
5. “The Foreigner as Soldier in the Second World War, I” (reprint – “The Journal of Politics”) - 1946;
6. “The Foreigner as Soldier in the Second World War, II” (reprint – “The Journal of Politics”) - 1947;
7. “Generals – Old or Young” in “The Journal of Politics” (Southern Political Science Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL) - 1942;
8. “Geography in War and Geopolitics” (reprint – “Military Affairs”) (two copies) - 1943;
9. “Ivory Towers into Watchtowers” in “The Virginia Quarterly Review” (The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) - 1941;
10. “Ivory Towers into Watchtowers” – clipped from “The Virginia Quarterly Review” (The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) - 1941 - includes a letter from Archibald Shepperson, editor of “The Virginia Quarterly Review,” and a letter about Vagts’s article;
11. “Military Command and Military Government” (reprint – “Political Science Quarterly”) - 1944;
12. “Das Reich und die Krankheit der europäischen Kultur” [“The Reich and the Sickness of European Culture”] (book review) (reprint – “The Journal of Modern History”) - 1941;
13. “The United States and the Balance of Power” (reprint – “The Journal of Politics”) - 1941; and
14. “War in the Colleges” - undated

1. “Bibliography of Military Occupation – Part II – German Occupation of Europe – 1939-1942” – Preliminary Compilation (Board of Economic Warfare, Supply and Blockade Branch, Reoccupation and Reconstruction Division) - 1942;
2. “Emergency Economic Administration of Belgium” - undated - includes three copies of a list of food rations for Belgium for April 1942;
3. “German War Economy Since the Outbreak of the War” - 1939, undated - includes handwritten and typewritten notes;
4. “German War Prisoners and the B.E.W. [Board of Economic Warfare]” - undated;
5. “Government of Occupied Territory” – Outline - 1942, undated - Includes a copy of a letter to Rifat Tirane from Vagts regarding “Power-Zoning, or Allocation of Reconstruction zones among the United Nations.” Also includes handwritten and typewritten notes, as well as a manuscript regarding occupation of enemy territory;
6. “Peace Aims and Post-War Reconstruction – An Annotated Bibliography” (preliminary) by Fawn M. Brodie (American Committee for International Studies, Princeton, NJ) - 1941;
7. “Proposal for Civilian Rehabilitation Corps” - undated;
8. “The Strategy of Territorial Occupation” - undated;
9. “The War Economic Organization of the German Army, 1914 to 1918” - 1942, undated;
10. “The War Economy and Armament Board of the German High Command” - undated; and
11. Unidentified - undated

Includes “Schedule of Import Requirements – Belgium & Luxembourg Customs Union.”

1. “Army Specialist Corps Regulations (Tentative)” (War Department, Washington, D.C.) - 1942;
2. “College Students and the War” by Henry M. Wriston (National Policy Papers Nos. 2 & 3) (National Policy Committee, Washington, D.C.) - 1940;
3. “Higher Education and National Defense Bulletin” (American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.) - 1941 (one issue);
4. “National War Agencies – Telephone Directory – January 1943” - 1943;
5. “Occasional Newsletter” (National Policy Committee, Washington, D.C.) - 1941 (one issue);
6. “Special War Supplement” (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ) - 1941; and
7. “Youth, War, and Freedom” by Raymond Gram Swing (reprint – “The Nation”) - 1940