Nazis

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Arendt
HA arranges her discussion under three headings: anti-Semitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. Together they compose a bleak picture of current trends: the decline of nation-states and of traditional class alliances, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Nazism
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Delafield
The pamphlet stresses the importance of beating the Nazis , under whose rule women and children would suffer the most.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Arendt
Arendt puts forward several points which many readers found controversial or even unacceptable. As her sub-title makes clear, she does not present Eichmann as a monster, an exception, or a freakishly wicked specimen of the...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Phyllis Bottome
This book, set in 1938 in Austria, condemns both NaziGermany and aggressive, self-destructive aspects of Austrian and German culture.
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
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The novel developed out of PB 's experiences at Kitzbühel in Germany...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Phyllis Bottome
Like another open letter by PB , I Accuse (not published until the end of this year), this one is highly critical of Anschluss (the Nazi takeover of Austria), for which she holds Britain partly responsible.
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
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...
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 Vera Brittain
VB 's literary output during and immediately after World War II was almost entirely taken up with statements of her pacifist convictions both her in non-fictional writing and lecturing and her last two novels. The...
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.
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB published her eighth novel, Latecomers, a story of English life whose true theme is the central characters' early experience as child refugees from the Nazis .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
Between 1931 and 1939, CH published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden...
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...
Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann generously accepted SB 's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley 's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung...

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October 1936: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from the...

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October 1936

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from the reading rooms of public libraries.

December 1936: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from being...

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December 1936

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from being telephone subscribers.

December 1936: The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded...

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December 1936

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky , a German pacifist who had been arrested two years before this and sent to a concentration camp for exposing Nazi activities in...

15 July 1937: The first 149 inmates (members of the resistance,...

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15 July 1937

The first 149 inmates (members of the resistance, Jehovah's Witnesses , previously convicted criminals and a few homosexuals) were delivered to the new concentration camp built by the German Nazi party near Weimar...

August 1938: The German Nazi Party decreed that Jews should...

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August 1938

The GermanNazi Party decreed that Jews should all add either Israel or Sara to their first names according to sex.

10 November 1938: On the day after the attacks on Jews and...

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10 November 1938

On the day after the attacks on Jews and their property later known as Kristallnacht, Jews in NaziGermany were forbidden from attending the cinema.

December 1938: Richard Kuhn of Germany was awarded the Nobel...

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December 1938

Richard Kuhn of Germany was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with vitamins, but the Nazi government prevented him from accepting.

May 1939: The first Nazi concentration camp for women...

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May 1939

The first Nazi concentration camp for women was established at Ravensbrück, near Furstenberg.

23 September 1939: Sigmund Freud died at his son's home in Hampstead,...

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23 September 1939

Sigmund Freud died at his son's home in Hampstead, one year after arriving in London as a refugee from NaziGermany.

28 October 1939: The first modern-times ghetto for the residence...

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28 October 1939

The first modern-times ghetto for the residence of Jews, removing their legal right elsewhere, was live set up by the Nazis in Piotrkow, Poland.

14 June 1940: The first convoy of prisoners arrived at...

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14 June 1940

The first convoy of prisoners arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz . They were Polish men condemned on political grounds; the decision to exterminate Jews was not taken until 20 January 1942.

16 June 1940: Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis,...

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16 June 1940

Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis , Churchill offered the temporary government of France under Paul Reynaud an indissoluble union of Britain and France, in which every British subject would become...

August 1940: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from shopping...

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August 1940

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from shopping other than in the hours of 3 to 4 p.m.

August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...

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August 1940

A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi

February 1941: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from owning...

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February 1941

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from owning cars.

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