World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 and was the second global war fought by all the great powers of the 20th century. It is the largest military conflict in human history to date.

Mentioned in

• A Conversation with Arnold Bernstein, in: Sonntagsblatt Staats-Zeitung und Herold, November 24, 1957
• A Difficult Return: A letter from a Jewish remigrant to the head of the Hamburg Congregation (Anna Koch)
• Antisemitism and Persecution (Werner Bergmann)
• Antisemitism in the Postwar Period. The Case of Friedrich Nieland (Werner Bergmann)
• Continuities in a Historiography Overshadowed by Its National Socialist Past? (Dirk Rupnow)
• Demographics and Social Structure (Miriam Rürup)
• Economy and Occupational Patterns (Uffa Jensen)
• Education and Learning (Ingrid Lohmann)
• Eugen Fraenkel: Hamburg’s most important pathologist (Benjamin Kuntz)
• Excerpt from the memoirs of Rudolf Heymann, Back through Life, a Monologue for Listening for Descendants [Zurück durchs Leben, Ein Monolog zum Mithören für Nachgeborene], edited and published by Maya and Liane Aviram, FZH Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte
• Experience Turned into Drawing? On the Motif of Closeness in Ágnes Lukács' Series of Lithographs (Christiane Hess)
• Friedrich Nieland, How Many World (Money) Wars Must the Peoples of the World Lose? Open Letter to all Government Ministers and Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic, pp. 3–4, Hamburg 1957
• Helen Rosenau, Aspiring Art Historian and Archaeologist (Jannik Sachweh)
• Hermann Zvi Guttmann and His Design for the New Synagogue at Hohe Weide (Alexandra Klei)
• Ida Ehre and Hamburg’s Kammerspiele Theater (Michaela Giesing)
• Interview with Franziska Mayer, conducted by Beate Meyer, on December 14, 1992 [in excerpts].
• Interview with Kurt van der Walde, conducted by Alfons Kenkmann, on May 9 and 30, 1994, FZH / WdE 251.
• Interview with Ruth Dräger, née Geistlich, conducted by Linde Apel, on September 13, 2007 [in excerpts].
• Jewish cultural assets in the postwar period. Hannah Arendt’s report on the situation in Hamburg (Elisabeth Gallas)
• Law and Politics (Uffa Jensen)
• Letter from Senior Government Councilor Dr. Baring to the Office for Restitution, Social Welfare Authorit Hamburg, February 24, 1954
• Love for One’s Homeland and Longing for Recognition. Ludwig Berger’s Commemorative Speech on Johannes Brahms (Christian Rogowski)
• Martha Glass. “Every day in Theresin is a gift” (Barbara Müller-Wesemann)
• Martha Glass: Theresienstadt Diaries 1943-1945
• Memory and Remembrance (Beate Meyer)
• Organizations and Institutions (Rainer Liedtke)
• Paul Dessau’s “Hagadah.” A Passover Oratorio Reflecting Contemporary History (Daniela Reinhold)
• Questonnaire on memberships in NS National Socialist organizations, completed by Siegfried Landshut on February 21, 1951
• Religion and Identity (Andreas Brämer)
• Return in Uniform. Walter Albert Eberstadt and the Beginning of Radio Hamburg (Hans-Ulrich Wagner)
• Rothenbaumchaussee 38: The Treatment of Jewish Property in the Postwar Period (Hendrik Althoff)
• Ruben Maleachi’s Visit to the Portuguese Sephardi Synagogue in Hamburg and Sephardic-Ashkenazic Relations in Early Twentieth-Century Hamburg (Constanze Kolbe)
• Scholarship (Lilian Türk)
• Speech Given by Mayor Max Brauer on the Occasion of the Groundbreaking for the Synagogue at Hohe Weide, November 9, 1958
• Statistics of Returnees from the Year 1945 - April 1952
• The Aftermath of Exile. Children’s Book Author Grete Berges Returns to Hamburg (Jasmin Centner)
• The case of Siegfried Landshut. „Restitution” at the University of Hamburg (Dennis Hormuth)
• The Case of the Jewish Cemetery in Ottensen (Ina Lorenz)
• The Controversial Mission to the Jews. A 1964 Correspondence between Helmut Schmidt, Hamburg’s Senator for Interior Affairs, and Bishop Hans-Otto Wölber (Rainer Hering)
• The Heinrich Barth Straße Synagogue and the Transnational Links between Stockholm and Hamburg (Maja Hultman)
• The Memoirs of Cantor Joseph Cysner. A rare testimonial of the Polenaktion (Bonnie M. Harris)
• The November Pogroms and the Culture of Remembrance – the “Synagogue Monument” by Margrit Kahl (Harald Schmid)
• The Number of Jews in Hamburg on April 30, 1945 (Jörg Berkemann)
• The Reopening of the Joseph Carlebach School (Stephanie Kowitz-Harms)
• The Synagogues of Hamburg by Ruben Maleachi (cont.), in: Mitteilungen des Verbandes Ehemaliger Breslauer und Schlesier in Israel [News of the Association of Former Bratislavans and Silesians in Israel], published by the Association of Former Bratislavans and Silesians in Israel, 46-47 (May 1980), pp. 41-44
• “It Cost Me 20 Years to Defeat Hitler.” Hamburg Shipping Company Owner Arnold Bernstein in the USA (Björn Siegel)
• “Mother Borchardt” – a Jewish Shipping Company Owner (Rebekka Großmann)
• “Swept back into the unseen vastness of the sea” - Fritz Buff’s account of his voyage aboard the ST. LOUIS, May and June 1939 (Matthias Loeber)
• “This cannot end well.” Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt's Memories of Theresienstadt (Linde Apel)
• “When it really mattered ...” - A Daughter’s Memories of Her Mother (Erika Hirsch)