Hitler Adolf

1889 – 1945

Message from Secretary to the Soviet military attaché in Finland A. Vasilyev to the Office of Foreign Relations of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Defence regarding the attitude of Finnish governmental circles, press and public to friendly relations with the USSR

5 October 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1240, ff. 18–19.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about Prime Minister N. Chamberlain’s speech in British Parliament and the plans of the Franco-British allies for turning the war in Europe into a protracted siege of Germany

12 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 300, fold. 2078, ff. 156–158.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about his conversation with British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. Butler on the re-establishment of peace in Europe, Polish borders after the war, British policy in the Far East, and Anglo-Soviet relations

17 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 300, fold. 2078, ff. 176–180.

Certified copy

Excerpt from the diary of Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky about the situation on the Western Front, the war at sea, and the reasons for the passivity of conflicting parties

24 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 017а, ser. 1, box 2, fold. 7, ff. 294–296v.

Copy

Minutes of meeting between А. Hitler and the Wehrmacht command

23 November 1939

Bundesarchiv

Copy. In German.

Transcript of a conversation between J. Stalin, Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov, Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Trade A. Mikoyan, and German Economic Ambassador K. Ritter on equal economic cooperation

31 December 1939

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 298, ff. 1–8.

Original

Internal report from Chief of the 5th Red Army Directorate I. Proskurov to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with attached materials about anti-Soviet activities in the Baltic countries and the recruitment of Estonian volunteers for fighting in Finland

27 January 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 50–58.

Report – original, attachment – certified copy

Directive of А. Hitler for preparing a military operation against Norway (Operation Weserübung)

1 March 1940

Bundesarchiv

Original. In German.

US Under Secretary of State S. Welles leaves the Reich Chancellery after meeting with А. Hitler

Berlin. 2 March 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 1511k, ser. 1, fold. 76, f. 116.

Photograph

Excerpt from the transcript of a conversation between Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky and British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. Butler on 22 February 1940 about the peaceful settlement of the Soviet-Finnish conflict and the conditions for attaining peace between the two countries

10 March 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 2, box 11, fold. 106, ff. 5–24.

Original