Nazis

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Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Adrian (1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge ...
Textual Features Romer Wilson
This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi rise: Hitler had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm...
Friends, Associates Ethel Wilson
In the course of her social duties EW would meet Baron de Rothschild , Sir Robert Ouvry , and the German financier and Westerm pro-Nazi organizer Baron von Heydebreck (known as Peter) .
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
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politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag...
Occupation Helen Waddell
Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Textual Features Elizabeth von Arnim
Originally entitled The Birthday Party, this novel focuses on Fanny Skeffington, an aging socialite forced to come to terms with her deteriorating looks. The novel ends with Fanny's reconciliation with her estranged husband, a...
Literary responses Alison Uttley
A child wrote to AU (about Hare Joins the Home Guard), Goebbels won't let the Nazis come now because Hare will stop them.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Residence Violet Trefusis
Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Residence Violet Trefusis
According to her later story (which took two hours to tell and made her weep in the telling), she fled from Paris when the Nazis overran France, in a small car with an aristocratic friend...
politics Gertrude Stein
GS 's politics were equivocal and often conservative. She was not explicitly feminist, yet many critics have celebrated her early writings on female lives and relationships as pro-feminist. GS writes in Everybody's Autobiography that she...
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 ...
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
During World War One GHS became and remained a fully convinced pacifist, as did her husband. Years later, with Nazi Germany re-arming, she reluctantly ceased to be a pacifist. She resigned, painfully, from Dick Sheppard
Occupation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi Germany...
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
During Storm Jameson 's presidency of the English branch of PEN International (which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis . GHS
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Another play about the theatre that she wrote, The Managing Director, brought her an overall bad experience. Its leading character was based on Fritzi Massary , an Austrian operetta diva who had fled from...

Timeline

1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...

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1913

Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .

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

The GermanNational Socialist Party (the Nazis) lost ground in the Reichstag elections.

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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