In the spring of 1940, Harvard University sent out a call to all German-Jewish refugees to describe their 'life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933 ... for a study of the social and psychological effect of National Socialism on German society and the German people' (Foreword, p...
Anne Frank was born in Germany in June 1929.Because the German Nazi (纳粹分子)hatedthe Jews (犹太人)and warned to kill them,her family had to move to another country.In July 1942,they went into hiding in a secret place in her father's office.During that difficult ...
Since our lists were of low-propensity voters, I also guessed when I did find people home I’d encounter large gaps where political knowledge should be. This too proved true. My personal goal was modest: stop 2024 in the United States from becoming 1933 in Germany (see my earlier Jumping ...
Germany between 1933 – 1945, Uganda 1971 – 1979, United States 3rd November 2020 – 6th January 2021 or present-day Russia, the same pathological mindset always leads to death and ruin.
³²As acompari-son,theWeimarRepublic,whichwasalsograpplingwith hyperinflation,reducedthe numberof its public employees by about20 percentbetween1923 and1924.Thegroupsmoststronglyaffectedwereyoungemployees,olderemployees,andwomen;mid-careermalecivil serviceemployeesin Germanywerethe leastaffect-ed by the...
Duringthe1930s,whenHitlercametopower,thelifeinNaziGermanywaschangedgreatly.MostoftheGermanslivedbetterthoughtHitler,forsomegroupswhichwerenotacceptedbytheNazisuchasJewswerehaveahorrificlife.TheNaziaffecteddifferentgroupsofpeopleindifferentways,workerswereencouragedtoworkhardbyaward,andprovidecheapentertainment;womenwere...
A writer and member of the Resistance, Antelme had been arrested by the Gestapo in July 1944, just six weeks ahead of the liberation of Paris by Allied forces, and like thousands of Resistance members before him, sent from Fresnes prison to a concentration camp in Germany. Duras’s and ...
Shortly after theReichstag fireon February 27, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt named an erudite professor at the University of Chicago as the ambassador to Germany. He was not the president’s first choice, or even his second choice. He was way down the line as no one else seemed to want the jo...
Einstein riding his bicycle in Santa Barbara that same year in 1933. Wikipedia In April, 1933 Germany's new government passed a law that prevented Jews from holding any official positions - including academic ones. For the following few months, Einstein was unemployed. He eventually emigr...
“were the people who wanted the best for Germany and who did something about it.” As a member of the Hitler Youth he took part in the burning of books written by “Jews or others who were degenerate.” And he believed that, by doing so, he was helping rid Germany of an ...