German Orders and Reports
Date | Short Description | |
09-07-1944 | Evacuation directives of the Interior Minister | DQ 0 |
09-10-1944 | Evacuation order by Himmler | DQ 1 |
09-11-1944 | Evacuation order by Gauleiter | DQ 2 |
09-13-1944 | Graf v. Schwerin’s report on the situation | DQ 3 |
09-13-1944 | Additional order by Gauleiter | DQ 4 |
09-14-1944 | Radio messages between Schack and Schwerin | DQ 5 |
09-15-1944 | Report on evacuation by General Schack | DQ 6 |
09-15-1944 | Report on evacuation by General Schwerin | DQ 7 |
09-15-1944 | Report on evacuation by General Mattenklott | DQ 8 |
10-10-1944 | Announcement to the citizens of Aachen | DQ 8bis |
10-18-1944 to 10-21-1944 | Radio messages by Colonel Wilck | DQ 9 |
10-08-1944 to 10-21-1944 | Excerpt from Wehrmacht High Command war diary | DQ 10 |
German propaganda in ”Westdeutscher Beobachter“ – newspaper of the NSDAP
The scans were provided with kind permission of the State Archives in Eupen (Belgium). The newspaper inventory “Westdeutscher Beobachter” bears the signature: Staatsarchiv in Eupen, X177-30.
Date | Short description | |
07-06-1944 | Reports about the start of the Normandy landings | WDB_06.07.1944 |
09-07-1944 | Rallying calls by the NS propaganda | WDB_05.09.1944 |
09-06-1944 | Portraying the “Westwall” as defensive position | WDB_06.09.1944 |
09-07-1944 | Preparing for the battle for the „Reich“ | WDB_07.09.1944 |
Contemporary witness reports from the “Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsvereins” (1955, 1963, 1972) (Journal of the Aachen History Association)
The following collections of contemporary witness reports about the “Battle of Aachen” have been edited in 1955, 1962 and 1972 by Bernhard Poll (1901-1981), director of the municipal archives in Aachen. They show the understanding of the history of World War II in the early post-war decades. Nowadays, this collection has become a historical source itself. The documents are copyrighted by the Aachener Geschichtsverein (Aachen History Association). We greatly appreciate the kind permission to reproduce.
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Aachen im Herbst 1944, Bd. I (1955) | Aachen im Herbst 1944, Bd. II (1963) | Aachen im Herbst 1944, Bd. III (1972) |