In 1930 the Bund Deutscher Mädel (German League of Girls) was formed as the female branch of the Hitler Youth movement. It was set up under the direction of Hitler Youth leader, Baldur von Schirach. There were two general age groups: the Jungmädel, from ten to fourteen years of age...
She signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor. Allyson's "girl next door" image was solidified during the mid-1940s when she was paired with actor Van Johnson in six films. In 1951, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress...
Lulu Anne Hansen, „`Youth Off the Rails`: Teenage Girls and German Soldiers - A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940-1945", Brutality and Desire. War and Sexuality in Europe`s Twentieth Century, Edited by Dagmar Herzog, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2009....
Elizabeth Hubert (nee Baldwin) and her four girls left Shanghai in January of 1941 on the Canadian ship “The Empress of Asia.” The American government had warned her to leave Shanghai because of expected hostilities. On the way home a submarine fired a torpedo at the Empress of Asia whi...
The machiavellism inspired by the Kremlin had begun by duping others and ended by duping itself. In Germany, as elsewhere in the world, it had erected a Papier-inaclze "movement" of sonorous names for make-believe organizations: the "united front from below." Moscow wanted its foreign creatu...
Factoring in the shapeshifting facility of Jews, and routinely assuming gentile-sounding names as was the habit of the Communist Jews in America and abroad, the problem is that under Tito, Jews registered themselves by national identity, ie. simply Croat, Greek, Albanian, Slovenian, Serb, etc....
But her partlyresentful, partlyculturallysen-sitive presentation reflects not merelyher own war experience, but also recogniz-es the prewar and war experiencesofthe Herero:their criticism of German set-tlements (17), their girls’and parents’fear ofrape by white men (31), theirfear ofwhite...
She made a popular romantic team with the boyishly disarming Van Johnson, with whom she co-starred in five films ranging from the musical "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944) to the drama "High Barbaree" (1947) to the farce "The Bride Goes Wild" (1948). Allyson's singing voice also ...
Ateş, a civil-rights activist, is best known for demanding equal rights for Muslim women and girls.Her views, highly critical of an immigrant Muslim society that is often more conservative than its counterpart in Turkey, have put her at risk. Her German language book, Islam needs a sexual...