Nazis

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politics Simone de Beauvoir
SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...
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
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...
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
politics Samuel Beckett
Writer SB , having fled from Paris when the Nazis occupied it, returned and joined a Resistance network, more than fifty percent of whose members were dead before the end of the war.
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
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 .
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
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.
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
These were, however, very unhappy years for MAH politically. She hated the blindness of British governments since 1931 towards the meaning of Hitler and Hitlerism and their policy of appeasement. She also felt that the...
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...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
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...
Author summary Phyllis Bottome
PB was a prolific novelist who published over fifty works in approximately sixty years. Her two best-known works, Private Worlds and The Mortal Storm, were made into popular American films. In addition to novels,...
Reception Henry Handel Richardson
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...
Reception Leonora Carrington
André Breton was an early admirer of the story and included The Debutante in Anthology of Black Humour, an edited collection first published in 1939 but suppressed until 1945 because the Nazi -compliant Vichy...
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...
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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Timeline

5 December 1942: The word Holocaust (which originally meant...

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5 December 1942

The word Holocaust (which originally meant an animal sacrifice entirely consumed by fire) was used as a headline in the News Chronicle for a newsitem about the Nazi mass murder of Jews.

22-30 September 1943: Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley) parachuted...

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22-30 September 1943

Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley) parachuted into France as an operative of Special Operations Executive , the British organization formed to support the French Resistance to the Nazis .

5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...

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5 September 1944

Ten days after Paris was liberated from the occupying Nazis , Le Havre on the French coast was flattened by RAF bombing.

27 January 1945: The Nazi death-camp at Auschwitz was liberated...

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27 January 1945

The Nazi death-camp at Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet (that is, Allied) troops. Since 2005 the anniversary has been kept as International Holocaust Memorial Day.

May 1945: In what has become known as the Nuremberg...

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May 1945

In what has become known as the Nuremberg trials, leaders from the Allied countries (particularly the Big Four: Churchill , De Gaulle , Stalin , and Truman , who had succeeded to Roosevelt the...

May 1945: In what has become known as the Nuremberg...

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May 1945

In what has become known as the Nuremberg trials, leaders from the Allied countries (particularly the Big Four: Churchill , De Gaulle , Stalin , and Truman , who had succeeded to Roosevelt the...

9 May 1945: The island of Jersey was liberated from Nazi...

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9 May 1945

The island of Jersey was liberated from Nazi rule by British naval forces.

20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946: The first set of Nuremberg trials, called...

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20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946

The first set of Nuremberg trials, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, took place before the International Military Tribunal.

30 September 1946: The Nuremberg trials ended after almost a...

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30 September 1946

The Nuremberg trials ended after almost a year in court, and judges from Allied countries sentenced eleven Nazi war criminals to death.

16 October 1946: Eleven leading Nazi war criminals were hanged...

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16 October 1946

Eleven leading Nazi war criminals were hanged at Nuremberg.

9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947: The second major set of Nuremberg trials...

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9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947

The second major set of Nuremberg trials was held, the Doctors' Trial.

January 1950: Klaus Fuchs, a one-time refugee now head...

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January 1950

Klaus Fuchs , a one-time refugee now head of theoretical physics at the new Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in Oxfordshire, was arrested for passing British and US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

December 1958: Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize...

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December 1958

Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He initially accepted the prize, but was quickly forced by the Soviet government to decline it.

11 April-14 August 1961: World media reported extensively on the trial...

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11 April-14 August 1961

World media reported extensively on the trial for war crimes of Adolf Eichmann , a major architect of the Nazi death camps.

9 November 1989: Popular action began pulling down the Berlin...

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9 November 1989

Popular action began pulling down the Berlin Wall (erected in August 1961, which divided the city into eastern and western sectors).

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