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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Barbara Pym | It appears that at this date BP
admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism
. Some of her English friends... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | 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... |
Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | FWN
was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University
. He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in... |
politics | Willa Muir | Their brief was in particular to assert the independence of the Scottish branch of PEN from the English branch. Having spent a good deal of time in Europe without paying close attention to the political... |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford | |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis
. It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion... |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Cecily Mackworth
made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-person account of the fall of France to the Nazis
and its immediate effects on the civilian population. Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | |
Residence | Cecily Mackworth | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag
or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler
. It was understood that the Nazis |
Timeline
March 1941: The German Nazi Party forbade dairies to...
Building item
March 1941
The GermanNazi Party
forbade dairies to deliver milk to Jews on their milk rounds.
1 April 1941: With the Second World War more than eighteen...
Writing climate item
1 April 1941
With the Second World War more than eighteen months old and the USA still neutral, Lillian Hellman
's dramaThe Watch on the Rhine opened on Broadway.
10 May 1941: Rudolf Hess, deputy to Hitler and a major...
National or international item
10 May 1941
Rudolf Hess
, deputy to Hitler
and a major influence on the development of Naziism
, arrived unexpectedly in Scotland, where he parachuted out of an aircraft.
30 May 1941: At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle,...
National or international item
30 May 1941
At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle
, the feast-day of Saint Joan of Arc
was marked in Nazi
-occupied France by informal groups of people walking the streets of our towns and our villages...
August 1941: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from s...
Building item
August 1941
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from smoking.
October 1941: The German Nazi Party required Jews to surrender...
Building item
October 1941
The GermanNazi Party
required Jews to surrender their typewriters, which now became forbidden equipment for them.
27 October 1941: US President Roosevelt made a strongly pro-war...
Writing climate item
27 October 1941
US President Roosevelt
made a strongly pro-war speech drawing attention to Nazi
designs against South America (and therefore the USA), based partly on intelligence from BSC or British Security Coordination
.
December 1941: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from using...
Building item
December 1941
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from using public telephones.
December 1941-May 1942: The Nazis killed 97,000 Jews by gassing in...
National or international item
December 1941-May 1942
The Nazis
killed 97,000 Jews by gassing in specially built lorries near Chelmno in Poland; they later changed this method because of the stress on work crews who did the killing.
March 1942: The German Nazi Party banned Jews from buying...
Building item
March 1942
The GermanNazi Party
banned Jews from buying flowers.
27 May 1942: Two years after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia,...
Writing climate item
27 May 1942
Two years after the Nazi
occupation of Czechoslovakia, a bomb attack on Reinhard Heydrich
, the top-ranking SS
officer and war criminal who had been given charge of the country, resulted in his death...
Late May 1942: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from owning...
Building item
Late May 1942
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from owning pets; Jewish households were required to take their pets, from cats to canaries, to a central location for killing.
10 June 1942: After the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia,...
National or international item
10 June 1942
After the Nazi
occupation of Czechoslovakia, in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
, every male at the mining village of Lidice was shot, and women and children deported.
July 1942: The German Nazi Party made it illegal to...
Building item
July 1942
The GermanNazi Party
made it illegal to arrange teaching for Jewish children, either privately or communally.
October 1942: The German Nazi Party prohibited Jews from...
Building item
October 1942
The GermanNazi Party
prohibited Jews from buying white bread or meat (in an economy in which every kind of food was becoming scarce).
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