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) ...
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He left home in 1905, without the support of his family, and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Losing interest in academic training, he left school and supported himself by drawing political cartoons and caricatures that he sold to magazines and newspapers. The small ...
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...
Undaunted by that setback, the search for young Charles continued, and the serial numbers of the bills paid to “John” were released to banks and published in major newspapers. The case took a tragic turn on May 12, when the child’s badly decomposed body was found less than 5 miles (...
It did so in part to preserve their culture and in part to maintain a clientele for German products like newspapers, books, and beer. In 1903 the Alliance urged in its German-American Annals, "Only through the preservation of the German language can our race in this land be preserved from...
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...
. Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst was said to be the highest paid man. Hearst disapproved of West on moral grounds, and once editorialized: “Can’t something be done about Mae West [by Congress]?” Hearst also forbade any mention of West’s 1936 filmKlondike Anniein his newspapers...
Berlin, 2 May 1933 This morning the Reich Chancellor in my presence received the Polish Minister who on behalf of his Government pointed out that since the National-Socialist Party had come into power in Germany a growing uneasiness had manifested itself in Poland which had at times almost ...
While comparatively risk-free contact across sector boundaries had been possible, West Berlin’s free and democratic press had been an effective alternative to the government-controlled SED newspapers in the East (Creuzberger, 2008: p. 535). But events in Berlin also forced the BMG to engage ...