Nazis

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called Bryher's novels distinctive historical imaginings, cinematic in construction, intense but passionless,and noted that their narrative perspective is often that of a young man.Alicia Ostriker ...

This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism in Germany, differs from MC 's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...

André Breton was an early admirer of the story and included The Debutante in Anthology of Black Humour, an edited collection first published in 1939 but suppressed until 1945 because the Nazi -compliant Vichy...

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...

HC 's mother, Eva Cixous (born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler 's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in...

Lyrics from the German folk song Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts are Free) are woven into and repeated throughout the second half of the book, when the narrator's lover falls sick and her...

NC worked as a translator in London for the Free French , the French government-in-exile during the rule of Marshall Pétain 's Nazi -compliant Vichy government in France.

Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Even the liberation of France from the Nazis , it...

The pamphlet stresses the importance of beating the Nazis , under whose rule women and children would suffer the most.

ID published Winter's Tales, whose genesis in the frozen time of her despair during the Nazi occupation of Denmark is remembered in its title.

ID published in New York, as Pierre Andrézel, The Angelic Avengers, a short, allegorical novel written to relieve her feelings during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

She had volunteered her journalistic services, as England and France declared war on Germany, to the editor of Politiken, which was published in Copenhagen. He commissioned her for several articles from each...

RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...

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...

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...