Nazis

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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
JM made another foray into fantasy with Our First Leader which satirically envisages a German victory in the second world war, with Machynlleth as the capital of a Nazi Wales.
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Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nancy Mitford
NM is less concerned to depict the evil than the stupidity inherent in fascism and nazism : I don't quite know what an Aryan is.Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
Four months after Nazis massacred the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, ESVM 's long, dramatic verse narrative The Murder of Lidice was broadcast by NBC throughout both the USA and war-torn Europe.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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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
ESVM 's last work in a theatrical medium was her indignant radio play in verse about the Nazi killings and deportations at Lidice in Czechoslovakia, which was broadcast throughout the United States in later 1942.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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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
CM 's slim volume Czechoslovakia Fights Back was published, one of a series entitled Europe under the Nazis, covering countries from Norway to Yugoslavia.
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Residence Cecily Mackworth
After France was liberated from the Nazis , CM first visited Paris for a month of delight in late 1945.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
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She was back there in spring 1946, in England again and in Wales that...
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

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March 1941: The German Nazi Party forbade dairies to...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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August 1941

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from smoking.

October 1941: The German Nazi Party required Jews to surrender...

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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...

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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...

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December 1941

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from using public telephones.

December 1941-May 1942: The Nazis killed 97,000 Jews by gassing in...

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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...

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March 1942

The GermanNazi Party banned Jews from buying flowers.

27 May 1942: Two years after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia,...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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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