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Oral History Interview with Gail Halvorsen, March 21, 2016

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Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Moody, Kimberly & Halvorsen, Gail Seymour
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Daniel Sanders Moment-Lexikon und Fremdwörterbuch

3D scanned models of a miniature book of poetry. Bound in publisher's flexible red cloth with gilt cover titles, and housed in green and gilt painted/enameled tin box with circular magnifying glass mounted in lid. Box is lacking suspension loop.
Date: 2016
Creator: Sanders, Daniel
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016

Transcript of interview with Doris Kathlyeen Lowrance Rittimann and Janice Lowrance Mays, descendants of one of the original families to settle in Kerrville, from Kerrville, Texas. They speak about their memories of growing up in Kerrville.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Collins, Kelli K.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commercial Diplomacy: The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and Its Peaceful Effects on Pre-World War I Anglo-German Relations (open access)

Commercial Diplomacy: The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and Its Peaceful Effects on Pre-World War I Anglo-German Relations

Slated as an economic outlet for Germany, the Baghdad Railway was designed to funnel political influence into the strategically viable regions of the Near East. The Railway was also designed to enrich Germany's coffers with natural resources with natural resources and trade with the Ottomans, their subjects, and their port cities... Over time, the Railway became the only significant route for Germany to reach its "place in the sun," and what began as an international enterprise escalated into a bid for diplomatic influence in the waning Ottoman Empire.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Bukaty, Ryan Michael
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Duality of the Hitler Youth: Ideological Indoctrination and Premilitary Education (open access)

The Duality of the Hitler Youth: Ideological Indoctrination and Premilitary Education

This thesis examines the National Socialists' ultimate designs for Germany's youth, conveniently organized within the Hitlerjugend. Prevailing scholarship portrays the Hitler Youth as a place for ideological indoctrination and activities akin to the modern Boy Scouts. Furthermore, it often implies that the Hitler Youth was paramilitary but always lacks support for this claim. These claims are not incorrect, but in regard to the paramilitary nature of the organization, they do not delve nearly deeply enough. The National Socialists ultimately desired to consolidate their control over the nation and to prepare the nation for a future war. Therefore, they needed to simultaneously indoctrinate German youth, securing the future existence of National Socialism but also ensuring that German youth carry out their orders and defend Germany, and train the youth in premilitary skills, deliberately attempting to increase the quality of the Wehrmacht and furnish it with a massive, trained reserve in case of war. This paper relies on published training manuals, translated propaganda, memoirs of former Hitler Youth members and secondary literature to examine the form and extent of the ideological indoctrination and premilitary training--which included the general Hitler Youth, special Hitler Youth subdivisions, military preparedness camps akin to boot camp, and …
Date: December 2016
Creator: Miller, Aaron Michael
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016

Interview with Doris Kathlyeen Lowrance Rittimann and Janice Lowrance Mays, descendants of one of the original families to settle in Kerrville, from Kerrville, Texas. They speak about their memories of growing up in Kerrville.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Rittimann, Doris Kathlyeen Lowrance & Mays, Janice Lowrance
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with D. K. L. Rittimann and J. L. Mays, January 26, 2016

Interview with Doris Kathlyeen Lowrance Rittimann and Janice Lowrance Mays, descendants of one of the original families to settle in Kerrville, from Kerrville, Texas. They speak about their memories of growing up in Kerrville.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Rittimann, Doris Kathlyeen Lowrance & Mays, Janice Lowrance
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History