Nazis

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...

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...

During this year and the next she produced a number of reports on threatening international developments. In October that year she and other members of a committee of enquiry into breaches of international law in...

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...

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.

PB published in Britain and North America The Mortal Storm, a blockbuster novel which depicts a German woman's resistance to anti-semitism in NaziGermany.

During the 1930s, ER had closely followed events in Palestine, and became a spokeswoman on behalf of Jewish women's voting rights, for instance. She was intensely disturbed by the rise of Nazism , and...

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.

PB 's novel Within the Cup, which warns against England dissociating itself from the Nazi atrocities in Europe, was published by Faber and Faber .

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.

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.

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...

In this book, set largely in an English village, PB rearticulates her concerns about the social situation of Jews in Europe and Britain. The novel centres on an English couple who rescue a German-Jewish...

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...

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...