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Record 1 of 21
Title [One of the first recordings ever made, a full ten years before Edison patented his gramophone, this German language cylinder documents the sounds of lambs, cows, cuckoos, and other fauna] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1878]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.1   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (1 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded 1878.
Subject Sound recordings -- History.
Alt author Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.

Record 2 of 21
Author Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975.
Title [Francisco Franco, in his last wartime communique, declares that the Spainsh Civil War is over] [sound recording]
Publisher [1939]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.10   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in. 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded April 1, 1939.
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.

Record 3 of 21
Author Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Title [Adolf Hitler declares war in Europe] [sound recording]
Publisher [1939]
LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.11   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (66 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on WJR (Detroit, Mich.), September 1, 1939.
Summary Hitler in German, with English interlineations, and the announcer who frequently interrupts with news flashes from London and Paris regarding other nations' preparations for war.
Subject World War, 1939-1945.

Record 4 of 21
Author Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.
Title [Benito Mussolini declares war on Britain and France] [sound recording] : [in Italian, followed by translation and commentary in German].
Publisher [1940].
LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.12   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (6 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Gift of : Bernhard Wichert of W. Germany.
Recorded June 10, 1940.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy.
Italy -- History -- 1914-1945.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945.

Record 5 of 21
Title [Announcement of the US landing in Africa [sound recording.]
Publisher [1942]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.13   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel ( 38 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on Armed Forces Radio (This is New York), November 8, 1942.
Local note Gift of Bernhart Wichert.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa.

Record 6 of 21
Title [Announcement of the invasion of Normandy] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1944]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.14   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel ( 28 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on Armed Forces Radio ( This is New York), June 6, 1944.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.

Record 7 of 21
Title [Announcement of the fall of Aachen] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1944]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.15   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (2 min. 30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on German radio (Radio Annie), 1944.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Aachen.

Record 8 of 21
Author Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, Abp. of Canterbury, 1887-1972.
Title [The Archbishop of Canterbury speaks in German over radio to Germans during World War II] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1942]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.16   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel ( 2 min., ) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 14/ in. tape.
Note Broadcast October 20, 1942.
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Propaganda, British -- Germany.

Record 9 of 21
Author Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Title [Charlie Chaplin speaks in English to a French audience about saving the little children] [sound recording]
Publisher [1942].
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.17   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (34 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on Voice of America, October 30, 1942.
Gift of: Bernhard Wichert of West Germany.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- France.

Record 10 of 21
Title [Japan surrenders, World War II ends, and General MacArthur is appointed to head the occupation forces] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1945]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.18   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel ( 33 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded August 14, 1945.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.

Record 11 of 21
Title [The last English broadcast from Radio Hamburg announces that Lord Haw Haw has fled and that the BBC has taken over in the traitor's place] [sound recording]
Publisher [1945]
LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.19   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (1 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on May 4, 1945.
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Joyce, William, 1906-1946.

Record 12 of 21
Author Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929.
Title [Emile Berliner wishes good luck to his friend Mrs. Hahn from across the Atlantic] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1899]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.2   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel ( 20 sec. ) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded November 18, 1899.
In German.
Subject Sound recordings -- History.

Record 13 of 21
Title [Newsreel from Germany immediately after the European war ended] [sound recording] / [done by Americans in German].
Publisher [1945]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.20   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (3 min. 30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Gift from Bernhard Wichert.
Subject World War, 1939-1945.

Record 14 of 21
Title [Hier spricht Ilse] [sound recording] : [two broadcasts featuring Major Glenn Miller's Air Force Band].
Publisher [1944]
LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.21   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (120 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast April 15, 1944 and June 10, 1944.
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Alt author Miller, Glenn, 1904-1944.

Record 15 of 21
Title Auschwitz and the Allies [sound recording]
Publisher [1984].
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.22   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (100 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Broadcast on BBC-TV, 1984.
Gift of: Bernhard Wichert of W. Germany.
Summary Oral history documentary, in several languages, of persons involved with the Auschwitz death camp in World War II; former prisoners, guards, liberators, and others.
Subject Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.

Record 16 of 21
Author Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929.
Title [Emile Berliner speaks about his experimentation] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1908]
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Description on 1 sound tape reel (2 min., 30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded 1908.
In German.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Sound recordings -- History.

Record 17 of 21
Author Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Title [Thomas Edison greets 49 young men competing for college scholarships] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1908]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.4   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded 1908.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Scholarships.

Record 18 of 21
Author MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937.
Title [Ramsay MacDonald speaking in Germany] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1925]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.5   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (17 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded October 7, 1925.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.

Record 19 of 21
Author Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934.
Title [New Year's Eve speech, the last one in pre-Hitler Germany] [sound recorind g/] [Paul von Hindenberg].
Publisher [1932]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.6   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (3 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note 19321231
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.

Record 20 of 21
Author Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934.
Title [Paul von Hindenberg addresses a rally of young people] [sound recording.]
Publisher [1933]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.8   CHECK SHELF
Description 0n 1 sound tape reel (4 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded May 1, 1933.
In German.
Local note Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

Record 21 of 21
Title [German newsreel reporting the destruction of the Spanish city of Guernica] [sound recording]
Publisher [1937]
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  VOICE LIBRARY, 4 WEST  M4739 bd.9   CHECK SHELF
Description on 1 sound tape reel (30 sec.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Note Recorded April 26, 1937.
Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Guernica (Spain) -- Bombardment, 1937.
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