Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article discusses war diaries from World War II as historical sources and sheds light on their value for social historians. First, we discuss the importance of a good policy in terms of preservation and accessibility of the war diaries. Next, we situate war diaries as a specific genre within ego documents. We then show how war diaries can contribute to the historiography, using examples from the existing literature. Throughout the article, we draw from thirty Belgian war diaries to illustrate their potential uses. These war diaries were found in judicial files of collaboration cases.
DOI: 10.52024/hph58r42
Authors: Laura Nys, Bart Willems
Institutions: Ghent University, State Archives of Belgium
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413348246
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