Nazis

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Textual Production Storm Jameson
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.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 71
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.
xiii
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
PB 's novel Within the Cup, which warns against England dissociating itself from the Nazi atrocities in Europe, was published by Faber and Faber .
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
226
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2168 (21 August 1943): 403
Textual Production Isak Dinesen
ID published in New York, as Pierre Andrézel, The Angelic Avengers, a short, allegorical novel written to relieve her feelings during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press.
35-6
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin.
362 and n8
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber.
178
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 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 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 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 Features Romer Wilson
This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi rise: Hitler had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm...
Textual Features Elizabeth von Arnim
Originally entitled The Birthday Party, this novel focuses on Fanny Skeffington, an aging socialite forced to come to terms with her deteriorating looks. The novel ends with Fanny's reconciliation with her estranged husband, a...
Textual Features Phyllis Bottome
In this book, set largely in an English village, PB rearticulates her concerns about the social situation of Jews in Europe and Britain.
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
228
The novel centres on an English couple who rescue a German-Jewish...
Textual Features Rosita Forbes
RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

Timeline

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-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.

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.

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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