Abstract
The Second World War, although rather recently concluded, has nevertheless accumulated a tremendous historiography. |The past twelve years saw a truly thoroughgoing dissection of this, the most catastrophic international event known to recorded history. Military operations have been minutely analyzed; political and economic influences carefully evaluated, and the part played in the conflict by both individual statesmen and individual nations has been painstakingly examined. |This literary endeavour was limited only by the reluctance of the various governments to assist this quest for knowledge by opening their files to the ever increasing throng of scholars, partisans, and apologists who laid siege to their Foreign Ministries demanding the release of pertinent documents.