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Accn2380
Myth of the Eastern Front records
1930s-2006
21 linear feet
The Myth of the Eastern Front records (1930s-2006) consist of drafts and research materials for The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture, written by Edward J. Davies and Ronald M. Smelser. Both Davies and Smelser are professors at the University of Utah.
Collection materials are in
English.
Biographical Sketch
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. Davies and Smelser state that their book "is the story of how the Germans, through a network of former high Wehrmacht officers and Bundeswehr officers who had served in World War II, created in the minds of the American military, then journalists and popular writers, an interpretation of World War II in the East disturbingly similar to that projected by Hitler's regime during the war itself and that left the Wehrmacht with a largely 'clean' reputation as to its conduct of that war. This view, which the Americans gradually absorbed during the 1950s, continues in the popular literature and part of the media to this day, and indeed delineates a broad subculture of general readers, German military enthusiasts, war game aficionados, military paraphernalia collectors, and reenactors."
Edward J. Davies and Ronald M. Smelser are professors at the University of Utah.
The Myth of the Eastern Front records (1930s-2006) consist of drafts and research materials for
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture, written by Edward J. Davies and Ronald M. Smelser. Not every chapter of the book is represented in the collection and some chapters have more materials collected for them than others. Most of the research in the collection consists of printouts of various websites and photocopies of published articles, magazines, and books. In most instances, original folder titles used by the authors were retained.
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Initial Citation:
Myth of the Eastern Front records, ACCN 2380,
Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following Citations: ACCN 2380.
Boxes 1-32 were donated by Edward Davies in November 2007 (15.75 linear feet).
Boxes 33-43 were donated by Ronald Smelser in November 2007 (5.25 linear feet).
Processed by Lisa DeMille in 2008.
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P1495).
See also the Ronald M. Smelser papers (Accn 2374) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.
Davies, Edward J., II, 1947-
Smelser, Ronald M., 1942-
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front
World War, 1939-1945--Public opinion
Propaganda, Germany--United States
Political Campaigns
Chapter Drafts and Research
1
1-4
Chapter 1, Drafts
1
5
Chapter 1, Articles and Publication Extracts
1940s
2
1-5
Chapter 1, Articles and Publication Extracts
1940s
3
1-3
Chapter 1, Articles and Publication Extracts
3
4
Chapter 1, Articles on Levering Attitudes
1940s
3
5
Chapter 1,
Deseret News
Articles
1940s
3
6
Chapter 1, Knight's Crosses
1999-2000
3
7
Chapter 1,
Look Magazine
Articles
1940s
4
1
Chapter 1, Media Coverage
4
2
Chapter 1, Movies and Television
1940s-1990s
4
3-5
Chapter 1,
New York Times
Articles
1940s
5
1
Chapter 1, Notes and Footnotes
5
2-3
Chapter 1, Notes and Sources
1940s-2001
5
4
Chapter 1, Publications
1990s
5
5
Chapter 1, Stalingrad Campaign Notes
5
6
Chapter 1,
Time Magazine
Articles
1940s
5
7
Chapter 1, Victimization
5
8
Chapter 1, World War II Presentation
1994
6
1
Chapter 3, Weratif Section
6
2
Chapter 5, Advertisements and Catalogs
1999-2002
6
3
Chapter 5, Correction Notes and Sidebars
2000-2005
6
4
Chapter 5, Internet Book Reviews
1999-2005
6
5
Chapter 5, Research Materials
2004-2005
6
6
Chapter 5, Sidebars
2001-2002
6
7
Chapters 5-6, Printed Internet Material
1999-2005
6
8-9
Chapter 6, Drafts
7
1
Chapter 6, Footnote Materials
7
2-4
Chapter 6, Publication Excerpts
8
1-3
Chapter 7, Drafts
Also includes some notes.
8
4-5
Chapter 7, Printed Internet Material
1990s-2005
8
6
Chapter 7, Secondary Literature on Film
1987
8
7
Chapter 7, Sources and Other Material
2000-2001
8
8
Chapters 7-8, Book Reviews and Ordering
2003-2004
9
1
Chapters 7-8, Lead-in's
1997-2000
9
2-6
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
1998-2000
10
1-6
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
1999-2000
11
1-6
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
1999-2000
12
1-5
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
1999-2003
Some notes accompany the material in folder 3.
13
1-5
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
1999-2005
14
1-6
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
2000
15
1-2
Chapters 7-8, Printed Internet Material
2001-2006
15
3
Chapters 7-8, Reenactment
1999-2000
15
4
Chapters 7-8, Wargaming
1999-2000
15
5
Chapters 7-8, World War II Book and Video Listings
1999-2000
16
1-4
Chapter 8, Drafts
16
5
Chapter 8, Axis Materials
2001-2004
16
6
Chapter 8, Books and Discussions
1999-2000
16
7
Chapter 8, Collectors Websites
1999-2001
16
8
Chapter 8, Pipes Site
1999
16
9
Chapter 8, Printed Internet Material
1999-2000
17
1-2
Chapter 8, Reenactments
1999-2006
17
3
Chapter 8, SS Waffen
1987-2000
17
4
Chapter 8, Third Reich Fact Book
1999-2003
17
5
Chapter 8, Veteran Autobiographies
1999
17
6
Chapter 8, Visuals
18
1
Chapter 9, Draft
18
2
Chapter 9, Alternate History and Outcomes
1999-2001
18
3
Chapter 9, Role Playing
1996-1999
18
4-5
Book Draft
This is a full book draft comprising chapters 1-8, an introduction, and a conclusion.
18
6
Final Index
Romancing Project
Boxes 19-22, labeled "Romancing Project," contain various chapter materials and research very similar to boxes 1-18. These materials were grouped separately, however, as a result of original labeling by the author.
19
1
Chapter 1, Drafts
19
2
Chapter 1, Footnotes
19
3
Chapter 1, Materials
2001
19
4
Chapter 1, Notes
19
5
Chapter 4, Notes
19
6
Chapter 5, Booklists
19
7
Chapter 5, Sidebars
2005
19
8
Chapters 5 and 9, Military Book Club Advertisements
1998, 2002
19
9
Chapter 6, Book Reviews
1950s-2000
19
10-11
Chapter 8, Drafts
20
1-2
Chapter 8, Footnotes
20
3
Chapter 8, Notes
20
4
Additional Material
2005-2006
20
5
Articles
1940s
20
6
Biographies
2001
20
7
Book Review Digest Material
1940s
20
8
Censoring History
20
9
Civil War in Popular Culture
20
10
Collectors' Websites
2000
20
11
Films and Movies
1999
21
1
Fort and Community Newspapers
2000-2001
21
2
German Military
2002-2006
21
3
Group Lists and Websites
1999-2000
21
4
Internet Conversation
2002-2003
21
5
Internet Resources
1999-2001
21
6
Japan Seminar Materials
21
7
Lithuania Debate
21
8
Material on Collectors
2000
21
9
Memory Literature
2003
21
10
Military Competence Notes
1990s
21
11
Naumann Writing
2003
22
1
New York Times
Index
1940s
22
2
Outline and Proposal
22
3
Popular Culture
2000
22
4
Publications
1940s
22
5-6
Reader's Digest
Articles
1940s
22
7
Reenactment Advertisements
2003
22
8
Research Grant
22
9
Resources
2004
22
10
Song of Russia
2002-2003
22
11
Units and Regiments
2000
22
12
Websites
2003
22
13
Writings
Subject Files
Boxes 23-30 again contain similar materials to previous boxes but were kept separate because they were not specifically linked to particular chapters or Romancing Project materials.
23
1
Anti-Communism Material
23
2
Anti-Hitler Resources
23
3
Anti-Jewish Disclaimers
23
4
Battlefield Successes
23
5
Book Club Advertisements
1990s-2000s
23
6
Book Reviews and Ordering
1999-2003
23
7
Climate and Environment
23
8
Commercial Websites
1999
23
9
Copyright Log
23
10
Crimean Campaign
23
11
Division Websites
1999-2000
23
12
Emails and Letters
1999-2005
23
13
Family and Christianity
23
14
Game Cover Pictures
Color copies of war board game covers. Actual games not included with collection.
23
15
German and Russian Soldiers
23
16
German Foreign Policy Articles
24
1
German Memorabilia Websites
2006
24
2
German Military in Russia
1985-1998
24
3
German Soldier Sacrifice
24
4
German Zinc Coins
24
5
Hitler's War, Episodes 1-6
24
6-7
Illustrations
24
8-10
Images of War, Theme Notebooks
1995
25
1-3
Images of War, Theme Notebooks
1995
25
4-5
International Book and Video Websites
1997-2000
25
6
Joint Chiefs of Staff Records
1940s
25
7
Military History Articles
2001, 2005
25
8
National Archives Materials
1999
26
1-2
New York Times
Articles
1940s
26
3
Notes
26
4
Perceptions of Communism
1970-1995
26
5
Pines Site
2000
26
6
Polish Campaign
26
7
Printed Internet Material
26
8-9
Publishing and Permissions
2006
27
1-3
Publishing and Permissions
2006
27
4
Publishing Houses
1999
27
5
Publishing Websites
2000-2005
28
1-4
Right Wing Journals and Presses
2000
29
1-3
Right Wing Journals and Presses
2000, 2004
29
4
Russia Overwhelmed
29
5
Russia Undeveloped
30
1
Source Material
30
2
Soviet Campaigns
30
3
SS Authentication Websites
2000
30
4
Strategy and Planning
30
5
Teaching Reports
2003
30
6
Third Reich Forum
2002
30
7
Time Magazine
Articles
1940s
30
8
Treatment of POWs
31
1
War Games and Reenactment
1992-2004
31
2
World War II Collectors' Materials
1999-2000
Writings
32
1
Thomas Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map"
2004
32
2-3
Edward Davies, "Images of World War II"
32
4
"Generals Black and von Mellenthin on Tactics"
1980
32
5
David Glantz, "American Perspective on Eastern Front Operations in World War II"
1986
32
6
Russell Hart, "Mars and Clio Embrace"
2001
32
7
Hannes Herr, "How Amorality Became Morality"
32
8
Steven Knapp, "Collective Memory and the Actual Past"
1989
32
9
Gerald Lechliter, "President George W. Bush's Military Service"
2004
32
10
Geoffrey Megargee, "A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands"
2002, 2005
32
11
Geoffrey Megargee, "Memory as Shield"
32
12
Geoffrey Megargee, "Selective Realities, Selective Memories"
32
13
Antonio Munoz, Publication Excerpts
1990s
32
14
Klaus Naumann, "Godfathers of the Innere Fuhrung?"
32
15
Samuel Newland, Articles
2001-2005
32
16
Pierra Nora, "Between Memory and History"
1989
32
17
Alexander Rossino, "Conflict or Cooperation?"
2001
32
18
Michael Roth, "Remembering Forgetting"
1989
32
19
Ronald Smelser, "The Holocaust in Popular Culture"
32
20
Edward Westermann, "A Perfect Marriage of Convenience"
Chapter Drafts and Research
33
1
Chapter Listing and Abstracts
33
2
Chapters 2-3, Research Material
1945-2002
33
3
Chapter 4, Networking
1939-2003
33
4
Chapter 4, Resource Materials
1997-2001
33
5
Chapter 8, Notes
33
6-7
Book Draft
34
1-2
Penultimate Book Copy
34
3
Prospectus Comments
34
4-6
Revisions and Bibliography
1950s-2003
34
7
Final Index
Subject Files
35
1
Addenda
1950s-2005
35
2
Andersonville
2005
35
3-5
Articles and Essays
1981-2005
36
1-2
Articles and Essays
1980s-2004
36
3
Balkan Campaign Study Supplement
1947
36
4
Guenther Blumentritt
2003
36
5-7
Bundeswehr
1950s-2003
Folder 7 also contains some Wehrmacht materials.
37
1
Willis Carto
2005
37
2
Paul Carrel/PaulSchmidt
1945-2004
37
3
Lucius Clay and Joe Rogers Interviews
1972-1973
37
4
Crimes of the Wehrmacht Panel
2000-2002
37
5
Denkschrift der Generale
1930s-1940s
37
6
Der Spiegel
Excerpts
1950s-1960s
37
7
Allen Dulles
1946-2004
37
8
Emails and Letters
1995-2003
Materials accompanying emails/letters also included.
38
1
Films
1942-2002
38
2
Balma Freiburg
1995-2003
38
3
Gehlen
1945-1990s
38
4
German Generals of World War II
2003-2004
38
5
Heinz Guderian
1940s-2003
38
6
Franz Halder
1940-2003
38
7
Halder Group
1942-2002
39
1
Sven Hassel
2004
39
2
Willi Heinrich
2004
39
3
Adolf Heusinger
1945-2003
39
4-8
Historical Studies #1-7
1940s-2004
39
9
History and Memory
1995-2003
39
10
Ideas
1990s
39
11
Institut fur Zeitgeschichte
2003
39
12
Internet Printouts in German
2005
39
13
Island Farm POW Camp
2003
40
1
Josef Kammhuber
1957-2003
40
2
Richard Landwehr
1998-2005
40
3
Lind and Sprey
2003
40
4
"Memorandum of the Generals"
40
5
Oskar Munzel
1958-2003
40
6
"The Myth of the 'Clean' Wehrmacht in Cold War America"
40
7
Notes
40
8
Nuremburg Testimony
40
9-11
Post Vietnam
1970s-2003
41
1
Post-war Culture
1950s
41
2
Ayn Rand
2001
41
3
Alexander Ratcliffe, "Partisian Warfare"
1953
41
4
Reviews
1952-2005
41
5
Romancing the Swastika Lecture
41
6
Hans Rottiger
1945-2003
41
7
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
2005
41
8
Shuster papers
2003
41
9
Truman Smith
1945-2003
41
10
Hans Speidel
1951-2003
41
11
Stars and Stripes
Excerpts
1950s
41
12
Alfred Toppe
1950-2003
41
13
Lucian Truscott
1951-2005
42
1
United States of America MHI/ Carlisle, Pennsylvania
2003
42
2
Untied States Armed Forces, German Youth Activity Program
1956
42
3
United States National Archives and Records Administration
2003
42
4
Erich von Manstein
1960s-2005
42
5
Hasso von Manteuffel
1984-2003
42
6
Klaus von Schubert
1996
42
7
Geyr von Schweppenburg
1952-2003
42
8
Gerhard von Schwerin
2003
42
9
Walter Warlimont
1940s-1963
42
10
Albert Wedemeyer
1941-2003
43
1
Wehrmacht Crimes List
1945
43
2
World War II General Correspondence
1940s-1960s
43
3
Mark Yerger
2005
43
4
Miscellaneous
Published Research Material
44
1
Jay W. Baird:
To Die for Germany, Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon
44
2
Paul Corelll:
Scorched Earth, The Russian-German War, 1943-1944
44
3
Martin Evans and Kenn Lunn, Editors:
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
44
4
Ivan Gaskell, "History of Images" from
New Perspectives on Historical Writing
44
5
Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann, Editors
War of Extermination, The German Military in Workd War II, 1941-1944
44
6
Alice-Leone Moats,
Blind Date with Mars
44
7
David McKibbin:
Barbarossa Revisited: A Historiography of the Battle of Smolensk
44
8
Various Articles
Research and Article Notes
45
1
The New York Times War Years Narrative, 1944-1945
45
2-3
The New York Times Cold War Years Narrative, 1946-1950
45
4
Notes
45
5
Notes on Photos
45
6
Notes "Romancing the Swastika" from
Soldat
45
7
"Romancing the Swastika," Notes on Visual Analysis
Book Research
46
1
Soviet War News
1944
46
2-4
Major General F.W. Von Mellenthin:
Panzer Battles
,
German Generals of World War II
46
5-7
Hans Von Luck:
Panzer Commander, The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Van Luck
46
8
Josephine Wtulich:
American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant, A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit
46
9
The War Hitler's Army Won: The War in the East from the American Perspective
47
Research and Drafts
Images of War
1941-1993