This site was created for Professor Catherine Stewart’s HIS 240: Public Memory and Public History at Cornell College. 
If you have any questions please contact Catherine Stewart: cstewart@cornellcollege.edu 
We would also like to give thanks to the amazing staff at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
With special thanks to Matt Schaefer, Craig Wright, and Spencer Howard who helped us with our site. We really appreciate all the help and knowledge you were able to give us!
Exhibit created by: Cameron Jones, Jane Selindh, and Joey Lacey
In collaboration with the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum and Library
This site was created for Professor Catherine Stewart’s HIS 240: Public Memory and Public History at Cornell College.
Please send any questions to:

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Archives: 

Smith, Truman. Berlin Alert : the Memoirs and Reports of Truman Smith. Stanford, Calif. :Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1984.

Image Citations: 

Home page:

Truman Smith, Charles Lindbergh, and German officer

“[Truman Smith and Charles Lindbergh inspecting aircraft, 1937.]” Photograph. Pomerania, Germany. http://spartacus-educational.com/USAlindbergh.htm (accessed May 4, 2017).

Military Espionage page:

A German factory producing Bf-109s.

“[B-24 production line.]” Photograph. Willow Run Detroit. http://acepilots.com/planes/factory.html (accessed May 4, 2017).

Treaty of Versailles page:

Political Cartoon about the Treaty of Versailles

“[Cartoon summarizing the War Guilt Clause.]” Photograph. Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Scranton Times: U.S. Newspaper, November 11, 1918. http://argunners.com/irony-treaty-versailles/ (accessed May 4, 2017).

Secrets of the Luftwaffe page:

Officers waiting outside of a plane

“[Junkers 52 and an airport runabout VW.]” Photograph. Germany. http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7126703-Here-s-something-for-the-classic-aircraft-and-VW-fans&p=87242516 (accessed May 4, 2017).

Intelligence gathered page:

Messerschmitt Bf-109

“[Bf 109A from the Condor Legion during Spanish Civil War.]” Photograph. (1936-1939). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109 (accessed May 4, 2017).

German four-engine aircraft

“[ME-264 Prototype Bomber Flight]” Photograph. Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_264 (accessed May 4, 2017).

Air Industry page:

He-111 bomber

“[HE-111 in Flight]” Photograph. Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111 (accessed May 4, 2017).

Ju-88 bomber

“[Junkers Tactical Bomber in Flight]” Photograph. Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_88 (accessed May 4, 2017).

Experience with Lindbergh page:

Charles Lindbergh and “Spirit of St. Louis”

“[Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis at Roosevelt Field.]” Photograph. Mineola, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis (accessed May 4, 2017).

Charles Lindbergh in Germany in civilian clothes.

“[Charles Lindbergh America First.]” Photograph. From America First Committee: In Danger Undaunted: The Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940-1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee (accessed May 4, 2017).

Aircraft bomber factory

“[A Heinkel He 111H of Kampfgeschwader 53.]” Photograph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111 (accessed May 4, 2017).

An American’s Firsthand Experience page:

Berlin Alert Cover

“[Truman Smith’s Memoirs]” Photograph/Book Cover. United States. https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Alert-Memoirs-Reports-Truman/dp/0817978925 (accessed May 4, 2017).

Smith talking with Germans

“[Smith Speaking To German Officers]” Photograph. United States. https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/learn/bookclub/pastfeatures/hitlerland/excerpt  (accessed May 4, 2017).