A crowd assembled to hear Adolf Hitler speak. They salute and cheer. Hitler stands at a flag and garland-draped podium, shot from below. Cameramen can be seen occasionally in the lower right of the screen as they film and/or photograph the speech. Occasional shots of the crowds and SA men. Hitler finishes his speech and descends from the podium. SA men hold back the crowds as Hitler's motorcade passes ...

Laura Selo was the oldest of three sisters who were brought up in a middle class assimilated Jewish family in Berlin. The family later moved to Prague and the girls came to Great Britain on one of the 'Nicholas Winton' trains. Grete Gumpel, Laura's mother perished in a mass grave in Chelmno on 15 May 1942. Laura's father managed to escape to Great Britain and was intened during the war.

Dr Gerhard Weiler (born in 1899), a chemist, was originally from Berlin. He grew up in a middle class family, enjoyed travelling abroad and visits to the theatre and opera. He emigrated to England in 1934 having been offered facilities for setting up a microanalytical chemistry laboratory at Oxford University by Professor Sir Robert Robinson, for a process not available in England at the time.

"Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues that the entwining of fascism with the masses is a remarkable transubstantiation of a movement which ...

<p>The papers in this collection document the fate of a middle class German Jewish family from Hanover. Max Ostermann and Charlotte née Horwitz had two daughters, Ilse born 1920, and Hannelore, born 1922. Both the girls managed to flee to Great Britain before the outbbreak of World War II. Ilse settled in Glasgow where she married Bernhard Sobel, a Polish Jewish refugee. Hannelore settled in London. ...

A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving an account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered ...

Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a genius - but like his name, eccentric and highly enigmatic. Now, in the first-ever full-scale biography to appear in English, historian John Weitz brings this brilliant Nazi-era financier to life. Born to an impoverished family of the German upper middle class, Schacht gained worldwide fame as Germany's commissioner of currency and president of the Reichsbank in ...

"American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous of ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the Final ...

[Colonne refugies belges / populations francaise et belge en fuite (1940)] Belgian refugees along road, very middle class. Sign: "Douanes Francaises" Fleeing, walking along country roads, with bundles. Officer checking identification papers of automobile driver. CUs, car damage. Nun providing water to refugees on truck. CU, children. Sleeping in tents. Sign: "Douane Belge - Belgisch Tol" Traveling ...

The G.I. Bill fueled not only the development of the middle class: it also revitalized American democracy. Americans who came of age during World War II joined fraternal groups and neighborhood and community organizations and took part in politics at rates that made the postwar era the twentieth century's civic "golden age." Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of members of the ...

Using Dannecker's case, profiles and analyzes the motives of Nazi "Judenberater" ("advisers on Jewish topics") who functioned in the SS and the SA. States that the focus on Dannecker facilitates the presentation of the order, method, and structure of the Nazi regime, seen from the point of view of a subordinate functionary who was directly involved in the annihilation of European Jewry. Dannecker (1913-1945), ...

<div>Joe (Josef) Quittner was born 15 August 1923, the only child of a middle class assimilated Jewish family in Vienna. The family employed a cook and cleaner and a nanny for Joe. His father, Egon (born 16.7.1883), ran his own factory, and his mother, Amalia (born 18.12.1892), ran the retail store which sold the products which the factory produced. With the advent of the Nazis in 1938, the property ...

Examines the fate of the "Mischlinge" (part-Jews) in the Nazi period. Analyzes the prohibition of mixed marriages under Nazism, the development of possibilities to avoid the stigma and persecution (recognition of a "special status" for some persons), and the policy as carried out in practice - actions and reactions. Pp. 266-371 describe interviews conducted with 61 former "Mischlinge", including excerpts ...

Files from the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg District Court in the Charlottenburg quarter) in Berlin, regarding individual Jews &#x0D; &#x0D; The Charlottenburg quarter in Berlin was an upper middle class neighborhood in which a high percentage of Jews resided and Jewish institutions were located. The Amtsgericht Charlottenburg files include a large volume of files of various types regarding ...

"In order to create a productive middle class part of an ideal society based on ethno-nationalism, the Antonescu regime (1940-1944) pursued Romanianization - a policy of excluding 'foreigners, ' especially Jews and Roma/Gypsies from the economic sphere through property and business seizure and exclusion from employment. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach and drawing on a variety of official and ...

Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 into a cultured and assimilated middle class Jewish family, and died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. 'Life or Theatre?' is the name she gave to a sequence of nearly 800 gouaches she produced between 1940 and 1942. Subtitled 'a play with music', it combines images, texts and musical references to recreate a life scarred both by family tragedy and Nazi ...

Ruth Maier kept a diary throughout her life. During her stay in Norway, she corresponded with her sister in England. The archive consist of 69 letters and eight diaries, covering both her time in Vienna and her time in Norway as well as correspondence between her and other family members. The Ruth Maier Archive documents the thoughts and life of a young Jewish woman facing the Nazi occupation in Austria ...

<div>Mira Hamermesh (Polish: Hamermesz) was born in Lodz, Poland on 15 July&nbsp;</div><div>1923. Mira was the youngest of three children and she was raised in a wealthy middle class Jewish family. Her father, Josef Meir Hamermesz, ran a rubber factory. Both her father and her mother, Fajga Hamermesz (née Lerer), died during the war. Her parents were transported to the Lodz-Litzmannstadt ghetto where ...

"Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars ...

"Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem. Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" raised crucial, previously ...

The Drielsmas were an upper middle-class secular Jewish family. Lisette was born in The Hague in April 1942, just a few months before the deportation of Jews from the city began. The family had the good fortune to be placed on the ‘Frederikslijst’, a list of names of Jews who, it was said, would receive preferential treatment due to contributions made to Dutch society. However the preferential treatment ...

<p>The following biographical notes were provided by the depositor, the daughter of Dorothea and granddaughter of Wilhelm Gross and Gertrud Gross-Sachs.</p><div>Wilhelm and Getrud Gross were typical middle class Germans living in Breslau. Wilhelm was professor of engineering and Gertrud was the daughter of wealthy industrialists (her uncle, Karl Gross, had a substantial collection of art works and ...

Examines the reactions of German Jewish intellectuals to spreading antisemitism during World War I, which jeopardized the already advanced integration of the Jewish middle class into Wilhelmine society. Pp. 174-194 discuss the radicalization of antisemitism, which was "völkisch"-oriented. Already in 1914, German Jews were accused of shirking their national duty and of unpatriotic attitudes. "Völkisch" ...

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