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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Bryher | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called Bryher's novels distinctive historical imaginings, cinematic in construction, intense but passionless,and noted that their narrative perspective is often that of a young man. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mona Caird | |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caryl Churchill | The play presents no children, only nine adults sitting together. Words are to be assigned to one person or another at the director's choice. In the filmed version mounted online on the website of The... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Cixous | HC
's mother, Eva Cixous
(born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler
's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Lyrics from the German folk song Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts are Free) are woven into and repeated throughout the second half of the book, when the narrator's lover falls sick and her... |
Occupation | Nancy Cunard | NC
worked as a translator in London for the Free French
, the French government-in-exile during the rule of Marshall Pétain
's Nazi
-compliant Vichy government in France. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 265, 272 |
politics | Nancy Cunard | Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth
reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 43 |
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. 90 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Isak Dinesen | |
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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Isak Dinesen | She had volunteered her journalistic services, as England and France declared war on Germany, to the editor of Politiken, which was published in Copenhagen. He commissioned her for several articles from each... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell. 12 |
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 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...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
National or international item
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,...
National or international item
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...
Building item
August 1941
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from smoking.
October 1941: The German Nazi Party required Jews to surrender...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from using...
Building item
December 1941
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from using public telephones.
December 1941-May 1942: The Nazis killed 97,000 Jews by gassing in...
National or international item
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.
March 1942: The German Nazi Party banned Jews from buying...
Building item
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...
Building item
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,...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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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