A child wrote to AU (about Hare Joins the Home Guard), Goebbels won't let the Nazis come now because Hare will stop them.
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Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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politics
Amabel Williams-Ellis
On this trip Williams-Ellis was denied an interview with Goebbels but spoke briefly with Dr Erbe of the Ministry of the Interior. She soon returned to Berlin on a second journey on behalf of other...
Textual Features
Storm Jameson
Cousin Honoré is set in Alsace. It begins in December 1918 and moves on to depict the condition of France on the brink of World War II The narrative moves through several other time-periods before...
Timeline
10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...
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10 May 1933
Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels, over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
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“Book Burning”. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
30 June 1937: Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister)...
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30 June 1937
Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) decreed that decadent art (created by Jews, Slavs, or Germans who for whatever reason were also deemed degenerate) should be weeded out from public and private collections in Germany.
Gilpin, Sam. “Faking It”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, p. 39.
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March 1939: Nearly 5,000 works of art defined by Joseph...
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March 1939
Nearly 5,000 works of art defined by Joseph Goebbels as decadent (painted by Jews, Slavs, or those deemed degenerate Germans) were burned outside the Fire Department in Berlin.
Gilpin, Sam. “Faking It”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, p. 39.
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20 July 1944: High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful...
National or international item
20 July 1944
High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler at his headquarters.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
30 April 1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide...
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30 April 1945
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide as Russian troops captured the Reichstag in Berlin.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
527-9
Ascherson, Neal. “Hitler’s Teeth”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 15-16.
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20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946: The first set of Nuremberg trials, called...
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20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946
The first set of Nuremberg trials, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, took place before the International Military Tribunal.
Linder, Doug. “Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Indictments, Verdicts and Sentencing of Major War Figures”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.