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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Sybille Bedford | |
| Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was forced to close Shakespeare and Company
, her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 404-5 |
| Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was arrested by the Nazis
, along with other American women. She was interned for about seven months. Beach, Sylvia. “Inturned”. PMLA, edited by Keri Walsh and Keri Walsh, Vol. 124 , No. 3, pp. 939-46. 940 Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 406 Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 216 |
| Travel | Barbara Pym | After visiting NaziGermany with the National Union of Students
in March 1934, BP
travelled with the same organization the following year to Budapest. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 8-9 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 32-3 |
| Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union
lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans... |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Like Germany and North America, Austria became a regular destination and she made a number of ongoing friendships there. She visited in 1928, 1934 (when the shadow of Nazism
was already perceptible), 1936, and in... |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This was a step towards remedying what she terms her long neglect of France. She was back there again several times in 1939. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 193-4, 208, 210 |
| Travel | Anne Ridler | Her memoir details her family holidays: six weeks in lodgings in summer and two at Easter, visiting Cornwall, St Davids in Wales, the Lake District, and France (the first time, to Brittany... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | This book, set in 1938 in Austria, condemns both NaziGermany and aggressive, self-destructive aspects of Austrian and German culture. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press. 230 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | Like another open letter by PB
, I Accuse (not published until the end of this year), this one is highly critical of Anschluss (the Nazi
takeover of Austria), for which she holds Britain partly responsible. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press. 217 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | Her alarm about the scope for Nazi
propaganda (through agents including prostitutes) among the recently rich, now impoverished, South Americans is fuelled by attitudes which are today seen as racist: to the prevalent combination of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mona Caird | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caryl Churchill | The play presents no children, only nine adults sitting together. Words are to be assigned to one person or another at the director's choice. In the filmed version mounted online on the website of The... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
Timeline
1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...
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1913
December 1914: German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg,...
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December 1914
German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg
, Clara Zetkin
, and Karl Liebknecht
founded the secret political organization called the Spartakusbund
or Spartacus League.
1918: Oswald Spengler published the first volume...
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1918
Oswald Spengler
published the first volume of Der Untergang des Abendlandes, one of his several influential works; the second volume followed in 1922.
28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling...
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28 June 1919
The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling the peace terms imposed by the victors of World War I on Germany and its allied nations.
: A conference held at Cairo installed the...
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Spring1921
A conference held at Cairo installed the Hashemite Faisal I
as king of Iraq, then a new entity under British Mandate conferred by the League of Nations
.
Late February 1925: Philosopher Martin Heidegger and one of his...
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Late February 1925
Philosopher Martin Heidegger
and one of his students, Hannah Arendt
, began an affair: an extraordinary moment bringing together a future apologist for and a lifelong opponent of totalitarianism.
13 May 1927: On this Black Friday, the German economic...
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13 May 1927
On this Black Friday, the German economic system collapsed, leading to total bank failure.
September 1930: The German National Socialist Party (the...
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September 1930
The GermanNational Socialist Party
(the Nazis) made significant gains in elections for the Reichstag
.
November 1932: The German National Socialist Party (the...
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November 1932
1933: In London, politician William Beveridge and...
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1933
In London, politician William Beveridge
and scientist Ernest Rutherford
founded the Academic Assistance Council
, to help mostly German writers and intellectuals menaced by the Nazis
.
31 May 1933: A meeting of women's organizations (sponsored...
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31 May 1933
A meeting of women's organizations (sponsored by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
) in the House of Commons
condemned the Nazi
policy of barring women from employment in the German government.
29-30 June 1934: This was Hitler's Night of the Long Knives,...
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29-30 June 1934
This was Hitler'sNight of the Long Knives, during which about 100 rivals or enemies, the left-wing element within the Nazi Party
, were killed. The sinister name came from a popular Nazi song.
25 July 1934: In the words of The Times, the courageous...
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25 July 1934
In the words of The Times, the courageous little Chancellor of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss
, died of wounds sustained during a raid on his residence by Nazi
terrorists in a bid to overthrow the government.
1935: The business-oriented and purportedly non-political...
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1935
The business-oriented and purportedly non-political Anglo-German Fellowship
was formed in London to promote friendly relations between the two countries. It lasted until 1941 before succumbing to the pressure of war.
1935: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...
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1935
Leni Riefenstahl
directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.
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