Harold Freedlander Letter 1945-04-28
World War, 1939-1945; National socialism--Germany; French Revolution
This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, looks at why the Germans are still fighting, even when he (and he presumes the Nazis as well) know that there is no way that the Germans could win. He says that they are no longer fighting Germany but National Socialism. Freedlander then goes on the relate this back to the Jacobins during the French Revolution. At such a late time in the war (less than a month away from official victory in Europe), the fight was about National Socialism, the principles it stood for, the way that it conducted government, and the possibility of a continuation of it. Similarly, the Jacobins in the French Revolution held control often by much political violence and radical legislation. This comparison made by Freedlander might be attributed to his degree in European History from Harvard College prior to his enrollment in the Army.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standards for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) for integration into the classroom.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standards for Modern World History 8 (Enlightenment ideas on the relationship of the individual and the government influenced the American Revolution, French Revolution and Latin American wars for independence) and 15 (The consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of appeasement, which in turn led to World War II) for integration in the classroom.
Harold Freedlander
I'll Be Back by Harold Freelander
Wooster Book Company
1945-04-28
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Germany
Harold Freedlander Letter 1945-01-16
World War, 1939-1945; Euro-dollar market; Coin banks
This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, discusses his knowledge of what is happening back in home. Freedlander discussing the takeover of the Cleveland Electric Company by the federal government because of a strike by its workers. Freedlander goes onto discuss how he took quite a bit of heat about it, being from Ohio, from his friends that were with him. The federal government took over many business and factories during this time to divert their resources to the war effort, both abroad and at home. This allowed for the production of goods not only for the United States, but also its allies of France and Great Britain, both of which were lacking in goods as well.
Freedlander goes on to discuss and describe in great detail the money that he uses in Great Britain. While there was some provided to soldiers through the United States government and the Army, much of what a soldier may want or need has to be bought with the pay he receives for his service. A solider may buy anything from gifts for his loved ones at home to cigarettes to eating at a restaurant or going to a movie, some of which was more expensive overseas than it might be at home because of the low quantity of goods that was available. Freedlander found the money that Great Britain used to be fascinating and the price of his movie theatre ticket as well.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standards for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) for integration into the classroom.
Harold Freedlander
I'll Be Back by Harold Freedlander
Wooster Book Company
1945-01-16
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England
Harold Freedlander letter 1944-11-12
World War, 1939-1945; Presidents--Election; Great powers
This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, discusses the outcome of the 1944 election, with Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to his fourth term as president. Freedlander discusses the boost in morale of the soldiers after his reelection, stating that if Governor Dewey would have won, it “would have certainly been regarded as repudiation by the people of our [soldier’s] war efforts.” The soldiers that were across the ocean, or even just those that were assigned at camps in the United States as Freedlander was at this time, were aware of what was happening back in the United States and it effected their morale. They wanted to know that what they were fighting for was also something that the United States citizens were supporting.
Freedlander also depicts how he saw how the world would turn out following the War. Freedlander was not too much off, with the United States and the U.S.S.R. becoming the two major powers in the world following the end of World War II. The one thing that Freedlander was unable to foresee was the different ways that the United States and U.S.S.R. would establish their dominance. The U.S.S.R. would attempt to gain control of all of Eastern Europe in hopes to stomp any further attacks from the west. The United States, with just as much (if not more) political and military power than the U.S.S.R., would attempt to establish a policy of containment of the communist rule that the U.S.S.R. was trying to spread. In the end, Harold Freedlander had predicted the Cold War almost a year before the War would officially end in Europe.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standards for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) and 24 (The United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism) for integration into the classroom.
Harold Freedlander
I'll Be Back by Harold Freedlander
Wooster Book Company
1944-11-12
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Mobile, Alabama
Robert D. Davis Letter from Ingolstadt 1945-10-06
World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945--Europe--End;
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio, depicts his post war plans. Davis explains that he plans on staying in Germany following the end of the War and when American troops are no longer necessary in Germany. Davis gives multiple reasons for this, especially monetary and economic reasons, an issue that would be prominent in the minds of many following World War II because the United States was just pulling itself back from The Great Depression in the 1930s when they went into World War II. Another reason for Davis to write home about his post-war plans and why staying in Germany would make a lot of sense to him because was only about twenty years old when the war started. The skills that he currently has will mostly relate to war and what he has done during war. Davis wants to be able to utilize those skills that World War II built for him, as other men who served will want to use their military skills as well.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) and 29 (The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life) for integration into the classroom.
Robert D. Davis
College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Unknown
1945-10-06
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Ingolstadt, Germany
Robert D. Davis Letter from Ingolstadt 1945-08-20
World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army; United States. Army--Anecdotes
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio, discusses the some of the conditions that Davis is living in while he is overseas during World War II. Davis discusses that him and the rest of his unit are willing to live further away and have to walk further to get wherever they need to go in exchange for a much nicer place to live. In addition, Davis discusses the comradery that he and the other men in the unit have amongst them. He says that his fellow soldiers know that he should be sitting a certain way on the sofa to be comfortable. The comradery that soldiers have amongst each other is one of the things that got many soldiers through the war itself, but also the integration back into society following the war. The soldiers share an experience that others cannot relate to, making it difficult following the war when soldiers had to integrate back in to civilian life.
Use Ohio Social Studies for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) and 4 (Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations) for integration into the classroom.
Robert D. Davis
College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Unknown
1945-08-20
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Ingolstadt, Germany
Robert D. Davis Letter from Dachau
World War, 1939-1945, Schloss Dachau (Dachau, Germany), Concentration camp buildings
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio depicts what Davis saw as he went to one of the concentration camps shortly following its liberation. Disturbed by the way that the Germans forced those imprisoned at these camps to live, Davis discusses that there were still some living in the horrifying chambers because they had nowhere else to go. He discusses the sight of burned bodies, the crematorium, and the shock he felt as saw how many people were shoved into the small building on the pretense of showering.
The atrocities committed by Nazi’s during the Holocaust shocked both Soviet and American soldiers as they came upon the concentration and death camps in late 1944 and 1945. As SS guards attempted to cover up what was happening in the camps by burning and burying evidence of starving bodies, American and Soviet soldiers who liberated these camps were horrified to see multiple of the world’s largest crematoriums and thousands of prisoners, starving to the point of near death. Davis’s accounts of what he saw in the Dachau death camp were not unlike any of his fellow soldiers.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for Modern World History 16 (Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of Jews and other groups, during World War II) for integration into the classroom
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) for integration into the classroom.
Robert D. Davis
College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Unknown
1945-06-11
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Dachau, Germany;