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Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941


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I. Tentative Efforts To Improve German-Soviet Relations, April 17 - August 14, 1939
II Agreement Achieved, August 14 - August 23, 1939
III. The Pact Executed and Amended, August 23 - September 28, 1939
IV. German-Soviet Cooperation, October 2, 1939 - May 29, 1940
V. Friction in the Baltic and the Balkans, June 4 - September 21, 1940
VI. The U. S. S. R. and the Three Power Pact, September 25 - November 26, 1940
VII. Soviet Resistance to the German Advance in the Balkans, December 18, 1940 - March 13, 1941
VIII. The Soviet Treaties With Yugoslavia and Japan, March 25 - April 13, 1941
IX. The Failure of Efforts to Preserve Peace, April 15 - June 22, 1941
Notes on Files

See Also - Germany and The Soviet Union - November 1937 to July 1938

  • Title Page (recto and verso)


  • Preface


  • Editors' Forward


  • List of Principal Persons


    • I. Tentative Efforts To Improve German-Soviet Relations, April 17 - August 14, 1939

  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office April 17, 1939


  • The German Charge in the Soviet Union (Tippelskirch) to the German Foreign Office : Telegram May 4, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : May 5, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : May 9, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : May 17, 1939


  • Memorandum by the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) May 20,1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office ( Weizsacker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) May 21, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsacker) May 22, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office ( Weizsacker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) May 27, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : May 29, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : (May 29, 1939)


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsacker) : May 30, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsacker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : May 30, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsacker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : May 30, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsacker) : June 5, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : June 15, 1939.


  • The German Charge in the Soviet Union (Tippelskirch) to the German Foreign Office : June 18,1939 with Enclosure and Subenclosure


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : June 27, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : June 29, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : June 29, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : June 30, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : July 3, 1939


  • The Counselor of Embassy of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union (Tippelskirch) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : July 12, 1939


  • The German Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : July 22, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : July 27, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : July 29, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 3, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 3, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign, Office : August 4, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to Counselor of Legation Schliep of the German Foreign Office : August 7, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : August 10, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : August 14, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 14, 1939


    • II Agreement Achieved, August 14 - August 23, 1939

  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 14, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 16, 1939


  • Memorandum by the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 16, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : August 16, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 16, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 18, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 18, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in The Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 19, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 19, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 19, 1939
  • Draft of the Nonaggression Pact
  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 20, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : August 21, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 21, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 21, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : August 21, 1939


  • Full Powers To the Reich Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : August 22, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Foreign Office : August 23, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the Reich Foreign Minister : August 23, 1939


  • Memorandum of a Conversation Held on the Night of August 23d to 24th, Between the Reich Foreign Minister, on the One Hand, and Herr Stalin and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Molotov, on the Other Hand : August 23-24, 1939


  • Treaty of Nonaggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 23, 1939


  • Secret Additional Protocol; August 23, 1939

    III. The Pact Executed and Amended, August 23 - September 28, 1939

  • The Reich Finance Minister (Schwerin-Krosigk) to the Reich Foreign Minister : August 23 , 1939


  • Letter from Hitler to Mussolini, August 25, 1939


  • Letter from Mussolini to Hitler, August 25, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : August 29, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 2, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : September 3, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 5, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 5, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 6, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union. (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 9, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet (Schulenburg) September 9, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 9, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 9, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union, (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 10, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : September 13, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 14, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : September 15, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 16, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 17, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 17, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : September 18, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 18, 1939


  • Memorandum by Counselor of Legation Hilger of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union : September 18, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : September 19, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 20, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : September 23, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : September 25, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Embassy in the Soviet Union : September 27, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Embassy in the Soviet Union : September 27, 1939


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Embassy in the Soviet Union : September 27, 1939


  • Timetable of Ribbentrop's Second Visit to Moscow


  • German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty; September 28,1939


  • Confidential Protocol; September 28,1939


  • Secret Supplementary Protocol; September 28,1939


  • Secret Supplementary Protocol; September 28,1939


  • Declaration of the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U.S.S.R. of September 28, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Molotov) : September 28, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union. (Molotov) : September 28, 1939


    • IV. German-Soviet Cooperation, October 2, 1939 - May 29, 1940

  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : October 2, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in Turkey (Papen) : October 2, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : October 2, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : October 3, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : October 3, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : October 4, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : October 5, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union, (Schulenburg) : October 5, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : October 5, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : October 7, 1939


  • The Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Molotov) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) : October 8, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum : October ?, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office : October 9, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : October 9, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to the German Minister in Finland (Blücher) : October 9, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) : October 9, 1939


  • The German Minister in Finland (Blücher) to the German Foreign Office : October 10, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker); October 12, 1939


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); October 18, 1939


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; October 19, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker); November 1, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to German Missions Abroad; December 2, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker); December 5, 1939


  • Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker); December 5, 1939


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); December 6, 1939


  • Memorandum by the Reich Foreign Minister; December 11, 1939


  • Foreign Office Memorandum; February 26, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); March 28, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; March 30, 1940


  • The German Foreign Office to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); April 3, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); April 7, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; April 9, 1940


  • Memorandum by the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); April 11, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; April 13, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); April 15, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); May 7, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; May 10, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; May 29, 1940


    • V. Friction in the Baltic and the Balkans, June 4 - September 21, 1940

  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 4, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 6, 1940


  • The German Foreign Office to the Representative of the German Foreign Office With the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia; June 8, 1940


  • Foreign Office Memorandum; June 11, 1940


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign office (Weizsäcker) to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); June 14, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); June 16, 1940


  • The German Foreign Office to the Reich Foreign Minister; June 16, 1940


  • Foreign Office Memorandum; June 16, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Foreign Office; June 16, 1940


  • Foreign Office Memorandum; June 16, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister's Personal Staff to the German Foreign Office; June 16, 1940


  • The German Foreign Office to the Reich Foreign Minister; June 17, 1940


  • The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to all German Missions; June 17, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 18, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 23, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 24, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 24, 1940


  • Memorandum. by the Reich Foreign Minister for Hitler; June 24, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg); June 25, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 26, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 26, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 26, 1940


  • The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 27, 1940


  • The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Foreign Office; June 27, 1940


    • VI. The U. S. S. R. and the Three Power Pact, September 25 - November 26, 1940

    VII. Soviet Resistance to the German Advance in the Balkans, December 18, 1940 - March 13, 1941

    VIII. The Soviet Treaties With Yugoslavia and Japan, March 25 - April 13, 1941

    IX. The Failure of Efforts to Preserve Peace, April 15 - June 22, 1941.

    Notes on Files

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