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Allied Bombers Over Germany 1943 | Bombing of WW2 Germany
1943, German Home Front, Newsweek

Sticking It To Berlin (Newsweek Magazine, 1943)

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[Berlin,] the target of 69 RAF raids so far, [the city] has been hit hard only a few times this year and underwent no raids during 1942. On the morale front it ranks ahead of all other German cities. When the others were raided the outcry of the Germans was bitter but local. When Berlin hit groans rose from all over Germany. If RAF night raiders should raze the capital by fire, as they did Hamburg, the whole German nation would suffer the shock of Berliners… Goebbels begged them to stand up under bombs as stoutly as the British did in 1940.

Jews are Nervous | Nervousness of Jewish People | Jewish Neurosis
1935, Jews in the 20th Century, Recent Articles, Scientific American

‘The Oddest Thing About the Jews” (Scientific Americans, 1935)

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When the sun came up in 1935, it found that Jews had been designated a preferred risk by the insurance companies of the day. One member of the medical community looked into their reasoning:

That the Jews are the most nervous of all civilized peoples in the civilized world has been established as almost axiomatic in the medical profession.

The Terror of the Nazi Stormtroopers (Literary Digest, 1933)
1933, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

The Terror of the Nazi Stormtroopers (Literary Digest, 1933)

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This piece reported that the Manchester Guardian journalists who were posted to Nazi Germany were, without a doubt, the most reliable sources on all matters involving the violence committed by those brown shirted thugs during the earliest days of Hitler’s reign:

The ‘Brown terror does not exist in Germany, according to the Hitler dictatorship.

Even to talk about it is a penal offense. But the ‘Brown Terror’ goes on.


Read about the German POWs who were schooled in virtues of democracy.

1942 Tank War in USSR
1942, Eastern Front, PM Tabloid

‘Tanks Spearhead Nazi Offensive” (PM Tabloid, 1942)

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The largest tank battle in history was fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. In April of 1943, 6,000 German and Soviet tanks, supported by some 2,000,000 infantrymen, had-at-it near the Russian city of Kursk. This article was written a year before the clash, and it informed the readers that armored engagements were becoming larger and larger with each one.

One Tough New York City Cop (Collier's Magazine, 1941)
1941, Collier's Magazine, Old New York History

One Tough New York City Cop (Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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Few Times Square tourists recognize Johnny Broderick, but New York mobsters cringe at the mention of his name. Meet Broadway’s one-man riot squad in his own bailiwick, where the lights are brightest.


The words and deeds of Johnny Broderick were so widely known that visiting politicians would request that he take charge of their security details and the broadcasting moguls wanted to make radio shows celebrating his daring-do. His round-house punch was known far and wide; cops like this one do not come along too often.

American Marijuana History | Weed in the 1940s | Recreational Drugs in the 1930s
1938, The Literary Digest, Weed

Marijuana in the Thirties (Literary Digest, 1938)

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During the closing days of 1937, Clarence Beck, Attorney General for the State of Kansas made a radio address on the Mutual Broadcasting System concerning the growing popularity of Marijuana:

It Is estimated the Narcotic Bureau of the New York Police Department in 1936 alone destroyed almost 40,000 pounds of marijuana plants, found growing within the city limits. Because of its rapidly increasing use, Marijuana demands a price as high as $60 a pound. (continued)

Foreign-Born Agricultural Laborers in California | 1950 Illegal Alien Farm Worker Articles
1951, Agricultural Labor, The New Leader Magazine

The Origins of ”Undocumented” Labor (The New Leader, 1951)

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This article was penned in 1951 by Hank Hasiwar, a loyal New Deal Democrat and president of the National Farm Labor Union (formerly the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union). His column was written in order to express his complete and utter outrage that there were members of congress who openly worked to undermine the welfare of American workers:

U.S. Senator Clinton Anderson (D-NM) made a strenuous attempt to flood the farming areas with hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals to be brought in at great expense to the taxpayers in order to provide cheap labor for the farm owners.

There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Agricultural Labor, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles

There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too (Ken Magazine, 1938)

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This 1938 magazine article can be filed in the the more things change, the more they stay the same folder. It lists all the assorted means by which Mexicans have attempted to illegally cross over the Southern border, whether to smuggle others, import illegal drugs or for their own gratification.


Marijuana was becoming a problem in 1938, too. Read about it here.


Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol.

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