Nazis

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...

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.

As Nazism and Fascism grew in Europe, MR became disillusioned with the pacifist movement and with the belief that war was the absolute, unique evil. She explained, I believe now that Nazi-ism is worse...

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...

Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag...

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 .

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...

During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

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.

Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Even the liberation of France from the Nazis , it...

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,...

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...

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...

After France was liberated from the Nazis , CM first visited Paris for a month of delight in late 1945. She was back there in spring 1946, in England again and in Wales that...

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.