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...
Despite this gradual reemergence of Frisian,Dutchstill functions as the primary standard language of Friesland. Nearly all school instruction is given in Dutch; all daily newspapers are printed in Dutch (though they contain occasional articles in Frisian); and the majority of television and radio bro...
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 ...
(9)Eugene Lyons,Assignment in Utopia(1937) They moderated their skepticism long before midnight. That evening they watched Hitler and Hindenburg reviewing the Nazi victory parade. The aged President seemed a pathetic supernumerary in that show, as uniformed Nazi battalions by the hundred thousand marc...
Berlin, 20 January 1937 M. Beck, the Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs, visited me this morning, whilst passing through Berlin on his way to Geneva, and we took occasion to discuss, amongst other things, the attitude of the Polish Press....
In 1937, at age 13, his father and stepmother (his mother died when he was a year-and-a-half years old) were deported to Mexico and he and his three brothers and two sisters followed. The family moved to Durango where his father, an architectural engineer, became the director of ...
The comic strip appeared in newspapers from 1943 to 1937. 5 How this comic strip is still popular with children all over the world. A. It was one of the most popular German strips at that time. B. When he was four years old, his family moved to Plauen. C. It was created by D....
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...
1937 that she, her plane and navigator Frederick Noonan went missing. They were declared lost at sea a short time later and were never seen again. According toHistory Today, some believe she went down in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island, which would have been just north of her destinat...
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 ...