Nazis

In the final episode of the main plot, she is informed by officialdom and in an unreadable letter in tiny German script from Theo Zeit that his two children are coming to England as refugees...

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...

Like Germany and North America, Austria became a regular destination and she made a number of ongoing friendships there. She visited in 1928, 1934 (when the shadow of Nazism was already perceptible), 1936, and in...

This was a step towards remedying what she terms her long neglect of France. She was back there again several times in 1939. In general she was more strongly drawn by Germany...

MAH embarked on the arduous practice of lecture tours, the great resource of the intellectual unemployed, from New York in 1923. She pursued it on many later tours. In 1938 she was supposed...

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...

In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment...

VH 's biographer Barbara Belford notes that at the end of her life, Hunt took little interest in current affairs, including the threat of Nazism . Instead, she was consumed with plans for her literary...

SJ published the novel Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major, a dystopian yet optimistic fiction set in a post-war, NaziCzechoslovakia.

SJ published another World War II novel, Cloudless May, referring to that month in 1940 which ushered in the invasion and occupation of France by NaziGermany.

In 1935 SJ 's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning...

This text delivered a final blow to SJ 's long and close friendship with Vera Brittain (who had dedicated her political England's Hour to Jameson only that February). Not only did Brittain remain a staunch...

Crane describes RPJ 's family as middle-European-bourgeois, and as well-integrated, solid, assimilated, German-Jewish. Before they fled from Nazi persecution, he says, they were proudly German as well as very committed to their Jewish faith....

PL 's father, Sydney Larkin , was treasurer of the city of Coventry at the time of Philip's birth. He was an important influence on his son's development. In politics he moved steadily to the...

In France Pierre takes him to meet a curé and the curé's housekeeper, Madame Quilleboeuf, who during the war had smuggled to safety the children of people picked up by the Gestapo , hiding each...