Nazis

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Friends, Associates Ethel Wilson
In the course of her social duties EW would meet Baron de Rothschild , Sir Robert Ouvry , and the German financier and Westerm pro-Nazi organizer Baron von Heydebreck (known as Peter) .
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
73-4
Intertextuality and Influence Phyllis Bottome
The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...
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...
Literary responses Storm Jameson
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...
Literary responses Simone de Beauvoir
The one-hundredth anniversary of SB 's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Alicia Ostriker ...
Literary responses Alison Uttley
A child wrote to AU (about Hare Joins the Home Guard), Goebbels won't let the Nazis come now because Hare will stop them.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
184
Literary Setting Margery Lawrence
The House on the Wall, about a woman who is hanged for hiding two prisoners of the Nazis , takes place in Rachau, Austria, under Gestapo rule. ML features voodoo in Chi-Chi...
Literary Setting Rose Allatini
In the first of these, RA reverted to an early practice of writing about recent, and threatening, international politics. Waters' Meet opens with Philippa Langford, nearly forty, good-naturedly escorting (as stand-in for a glamorous and...
Literary Setting Michèle Roberts
This is the story of Thérèse and Léonie (cousins, or sisters, or twins, whose relationship is differently described as the story proceeds and their fathers are differently identified), as well as a story of life...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis
Material Conditions of Writing Edna St Vincent Millay
She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis . It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion...
Material Conditions of Writing Phyllis Bottome
The film version of PB 's The Mortal Storm, one of Hollywood's first anti-Nazi films, opened in the United States, where it served as an important and influential piece of British war propaganda.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
247
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
Material Conditions of Writing Isak Dinesen
ID published Winter's Tales, whose genesis in the frozen time of her despair during the Nazi occupation of Denmark
Lochhead, Liz. “Ice”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, pp. 26-7.
27
is remembered in its title.
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin.
342, 351

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October 1936: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from the...

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October 1936

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from the reading rooms of public libraries.

December 1936: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from being...

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December 1936

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from being telephone subscribers.

December 1936: The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded...

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December 1936

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky , a German pacifist who had been arrested two years before this and sent to a concentration camp for exposing Nazi activities in...

15 July 1937: The first 149 inmates (members of the resistance,...

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15 July 1937

The first 149 inmates (members of the resistance, Jehovah's Witnesses , previously convicted criminals and a few homosexuals) were delivered to the new concentration camp built by the German Nazi party near Weimar...

August 1938: The German Nazi Party decreed that Jews should...

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August 1938

The GermanNazi Party decreed that Jews should all add either Israel or Sara to their first names according to sex.

10 November 1938: On the day after the attacks on Jews and...

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10 November 1938

On the day after the attacks on Jews and their property later known as Kristallnacht, Jews in NaziGermany were forbidden from attending the cinema.

December 1938: Richard Kuhn of Germany was awarded the Nobel...

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December 1938

Richard Kuhn of Germany was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with vitamins, but the Nazi government prevented him from accepting.

May 1939: The first Nazi concentration camp for women...

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May 1939

The first Nazi concentration camp for women was established at Ravensbrück, near Furstenberg.

23 September 1939: Sigmund Freud died at his son's home in Hampstead,...

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23 September 1939

Sigmund Freud died at his son's home in Hampstead, one year after arriving in London as a refugee from NaziGermany.

28 October 1939: The first modern-times ghetto for the residence...

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28 October 1939

The first modern-times ghetto for the residence of Jews, removing their legal right elsewhere, was live set up by the Nazis in Piotrkow, Poland.

14 June 1940: The first convoy of prisoners arrived at...

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14 June 1940

The first convoy of prisoners arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz . They were Polish men condemned on political grounds; the decision to exterminate Jews was not taken until 20 January 1942.

16 June 1940: Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis,...

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16 June 1940

Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis , Churchill offered the temporary government of France under Paul Reynaud an indissoluble union of Britain and France, in which every British subject would become...

August 1940: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from shopping...

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August 1940

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from shopping other than in the hours of 3 to 4 p.m.

August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...

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August 1940

A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi

February 1941: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from owning...

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February 1941

The GermanNazi Party barred Jews from owning cars.

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