World War Two – Page 2 – Old Magazine Articles

Nazis on Trial
(Collier’s Magazine, 1946)

War correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998) filed this article concerning her observations and insights gleaned at the Nuremberg Trials:

“The second charge against these twenty-one men was crimes against peace. War is the crime against peace. War is the silver bombers, with the young men in them, who never wanted to kill anyone, flying in the morning sun over Germany and not coming back. War is the sinking ship and the sailors drowning in a flaming sea on the way to Murmansk. War is the casualty lists and bombed ruins and refugees, frightened and homeless and tired to death, on all the roads.”

A Nastier Enemy
(Liberty Magazine, 1943)

The Germans we fought in World War Two were very different from the ones we fought twenty-one years earlier.

A Nastier Enemy
(Liberty Magazine, 1943)

The Germans we fought in World War Two were very different from the ones we fought twenty-one years earlier.

Reasons for Rationing
(American Magazine, 1942)

Attached herein is a fun little chart laying out the reasons why commercial goods on the home front were scarce.

Prejudice on the Home Front
(Look Magazine, 1945)

As the Allied Armies were nearing Berlin and Tokyo, U.S. magazines began running articles concerning the nation’s problems that had all been put on the back burner during the war years. Subjects of concern involved inflation, alcoholism, and juvenile delinquency. The article attached here concern America’s curse: racial and religious prejudice, and how to get rid of it.

Rationing on the Germn Home Front
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)

A weird article. This journalist seemed to admire much of what he saw in Nazi Germany.

Linda Darnell Downsizes
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

Everyone on the home front was used to making sacrifices, and Hollywood star Linda Darnell (1923 – 1965) was no exception:

“Allowances must be made for Linda Darnell who has been sorely tried. Instead of six servants, she now has two – and she hears strange sounds from the kitchen that convince her she will soon be alone. Her chauffer has been drafted; her butler is working at Lockheed. Her flower gardens are a wreck because the Japs who once tended them are in internment camps… ‘Why, this gas rationing… it’s worse than being bombed!'”

The Pampered Axis Prisoners
(United States News, 1945)

“There are reports that these prisoners are often pampered, that they are getting cigarettes when Americans civilians cannot get them, that they are being served by American soldiers, that they are often not working at a time when war workers are scarce. The general complaint is that the 46,000 American prisoners in Germany are not faring as well as the 300,000 Germans in this country.”

The Growth of the U.S. Navy
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

The attached article pertains to the amazing speed at which the U.S. Navy was able to add new fighting ships to the fleet between December, 1941 and December, 1942.

The Home front Knuckles Under
(Collier’s Magazine, 1942)

Having heard from assorted armchair generals, radio oracles and ink-stained bums that the heart of the American home front was not in the fight, journalist Quentin Reynolds bought some train tickets to scour the country and see if it was true.

It wasn’t.

Click here to read about the rationing of makeup.