69The three,“long and more or less complete sets”of newspapers in question were:(1) TheDeutschostafrika Rundschau, (2) TheDeutsch-ostafrikanische ZeitungandTheUsambara Post.70A few surviving copies of these three important German colo-nial newspapers are to be found in the East Africana ...
Johann, a Winnipeg Communist and a labourer on farms in northern British Columbia. He wrote a total of 18 volumes both fiction and nonfiction along with numerous article for newspapers and magazines in Germany. His nonfictional books were commonly anecdotal in form and one volume can plausibly ...
The German middle-class public took great interest in the Far East since the 1850s as a potential for commercial activities and a reflection of German moral duties in representing a specific type of European civilisation:Kultur. During the 1848/49 revolutions, German overseas movements that took o...
There was also a campaign in German newspapers against the idea of wearing trousers. Women were described as those "trouser-wenches with Indian warpaint". Magda Goebbels liked wearing trousers and she gained the support of her husband, Joseph Goebbels, to defend like-minded women: "Whether women...
American newspapers are likening Roosevelt to George Washington, who was “first in peace, first in war and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” If Americans believe their own propagandists, then undoubtedly they have the shortest memory of any people on Earth…The Lend-Lease Bill had pass...
In March 1933, Ernst Oberfohren resigned from the Reichstag. It is claimed that Oberfohren was against doing a deal with Hitler. (5) Soon after letters written by Oberfohren, that were critical of Alfred Hugenberg, the leader of the DNVP, appeared in pro-Nazi newspapers. (6) ...
In true boys own rhetoric, the newspapers of the day reported on a ‘Thrilling Dog-Fight with Spitfires’ and ‘bullets rattling on our roof like a sea of hail.’ The official record of the episode reads: “9./KG26 Heinkel He 111H-3. Sortied to attack Leuchars airfield with harbour ...
Mr. Winston Churchill, for example, speaking in the House of Commons in November 1932 advocated "the removal of the just grievances of the vanquished" and emphasized in particular the "Danzig Corridor." "Otherwise" be averred, "we might find ourselves pledged in honour and in law to enter...
Publication of books and periodicals as well as of independent newspapers has been suspended. Monuments which showed the artistic culture of the nation have been pulled down and destroyed. All the professors of the University of Poznan have been expelled, deprived of all their personal possessions ...
Personal and professional cor-respondence was conducted in German, and German-language newspapers from Vienna and Berlin had a substantial readership. The active knowledge of German kept alive the channel of connection between Croatian Jewry and Deutschtum. Even beyond the German language, the most ...