Nazis

In spring 1938 terrible stories were current in Cardiff about the treatment of Jews in NaziGermany. Most Welsh or English people disbelieved the stories, but not Jewish people. BR found herself, with her...

BR 's characters here have not sweetened in their advanced age. They cherish secrets from the past, or delight in outliving others less lucky, or operate an in-house blackmailing business, or commit gory suicide. The...

When asked to write his autobiography for publication, Dreyfus both fears and wishes to break his silence. He begins his story with his terribly ironical christening. His self-discovery runs parallel in the novel with the...

As Nazism and Fascism grew in Europe, MR became disillusioned with the pacifist movement and with the belief that war was the absolute, unique evil. She explained, I believe now that Nazi-ism is worse...

This is the story of Thérèse and Léonie (cousins, or sisters, or twins, whose relationship is differently described as the story proceeds and their fathers are differently identified), as well as a story of life...

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...

The Times Literary Supplement said HHR had been scrupulous with the facts, had exercised the novelist's true function of revealing character by uncovering the secret places of the heart, and had revealed Cosima as the...

In the same month that the House of Commons was officially informed of the Nazi holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe.

ER 's committee raised three hundred thousand pounds to fund the children's transport. Having begun with Spanish refugees, she became over the next few years deeply involved in the cause of refugees from Czecholovakia...

As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER advocated League of Nations sanctions against Mussolini 's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in...

During this year and the next she produced a number of reports on threatening international developments. In October that year she and other members of a committee of enquiry into breaches of international law in...

During the 1930s, ER had closely followed events in Palestine, and became a spokeswoman on behalf of Jewish women's voting rights, for instance. She was intensely disturbed by the rise of Nazism , and...

ER , a strong anti-fascist, chaired a meeting of women's groups organized by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship , to discuss the declining rights of German women under Nazism .

After the end of her university career, BP travelled with the National Union of Students to Germany, where the Nazis were already in power, and found herself attracted by several young men who were...

After visiting NaziGermany with the National Union of Students in March 1934, BP travelled with the same organization the following year to Budapest.