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More Laws for the Germans (Literary Digest, 1936)
1936, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

More Laws for the Germans
(Literary Digest, 1936)

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With no check of legislative body or court, the Nazi triumvirate had decreed that smuggling money or shares out of Germany, and failure to bring into Germany money from goods sold abroad, should be punishable by death.Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals.


Click here to read Hitler’s plan for German youth.

The Nazi School System (Click Magazine, 1940)
1940, Click Magazine, The Nazis

The Nazi School System
(Click Magazine, 1940)

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German school children in Bad Wilsnack as elsewhere look like American kids, study the same arithmetic, discuss the same current events in a regular ‘press period’. But they sneer at democracy and tolerance, deliver serious, bitter impassioned orations in regular Fuhrer style against liberty and freedom…Youth is not youth, but a servant of the state.

The Adolf Hitler Schools (Current History Magazine, 1939)
1939, Current History Magazine, The Nazis

The Adolf Hitler Schools
(Current History Magazine, 1939)

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This is a 1939 article about the Adolph Hitler Schools; a (thankfully) short-lived institution that was created to ill-educate the chosen of Hitler’s Germany in order to create a ruling elite.

Their education, in the proper sense of the word, lays emphasis above all on biology, and naturally, on the racial question – on the philosophy of the National Socialist State, on the Common Law, and on the history of Germany and of the Nazi Movement. Foreign languages, literature, and philosophy finds no place.

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Nazi Song Lyrics | Nazi Music | Storm Trooper Song Lyrics
1934, New Outlook Magazine, Recent Articles, The Nazis

Their Songs of Loathing
(New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

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Well, here they are: the songs of the Nazi hit parade – all the ditties you’ve loved tapping your toes to – songs like Storm Troops on the March, or Up, Up, To Strife, Nation to Arms and who can forget that old classic: Wessle Song…


It doesn’t get much better than this.

Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals. Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals.


Click here to read Hitler’s plan for German youth.

The ''Unsinkable'' Titanic ('48 Magazine, 1948)
1948, 48 Magazine, Recent Articles, Titanic History

The ”Unsinkable” Titanic
(’48 Magazine, 1948)

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Award winning word-smith Hanson W. Baldwin (1903 – 1991) wrote this tight little essay some 64 years after the Titanic sinking. He succinctly pieced together the events of that day (April 12, 1912) and clearly indicated that there was plenty of blame to go around for the tremendous loss of life; not simply the Grand Poobahs in the senior positions (Captain Smith and Bruce Ismay) but the small fries as well (such as Second Radio Operator Harold McBride). By the second page, Baldwin commences with an hour by hour break-down of the events on-board TITANIC until she made her final plunge into the deep:

12:30 a.m. The word is passed: ‘Women and children in the boats’. Stewards finish waking passengers below; life-preservers are tied on; some men smile at the precaution.
‘The Titanic is unsinkable.’

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Chinese Persecution of the Christians 1952 | Chinese War Against Christ | Maoist Persecutions | Christian Martyrs in China
1952, China - Twentieth Century, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The Lot of Chinese Christians
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)

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For those who keep records of the harsh treatment dolled out to religious sects by the various assorted tyrannical governments of the world, China is the all-time champion. Since it’s inception, the People’s Republic of China has attempted to coerce or eradicate every religious faith within its borders. Here is an account by an eyewitness to the many assorted atrocities dished out to the Christians in China by the followers of Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976.


An article about Soviet persecution of religious adherents can be read here…

Martin Niemöller (Literary Digest, 1935)
1935, Pseudotheology, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Martin Niemöller
(Literary Digest, 1935)

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Remembered as the poetic soul who penned the famous Holocaust verse, First they came for…, Martin Niemöller (Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller 1892 – 1984) is characterized in this 1935 article as a remarkably brave theologian who was challenging the Nazi Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller and Dr. Alfred Rosenberg for their assault on the Protestant Churches in Germany:

Now Niemöller is resisting the attack of the German Christian Party, a neopaganistic movement, on the old Protestant faith, in fact. He was not molested when he read to his congregation the manifesto of the Confessional Synod’ Brotherhood Council.All most know that there is a bitter propaganda campaign against the Church under way. We must fight against this and for active, not passive, Christianity.

'Black Mammy'' (Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1918)
1918, African-American History, Confederate Veteran Magazine, Recent Articles

‘Black Mammy”
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1918)

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Those sensitive beta-males in the editorial offices of Confederate Veteran were teary-eyed and waxing winsome that day in 1918 when they saw fit to recall one particular long-standing Southern institution that was gone with the wind:

The most unique character connected with the days of slavery was the old black mammy, who held a position of and confidence in nearly every white family of importance in the South… She was an important member of the household, and for her faithfulness and devotion she has been immortalized in the literature of the South.

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High Culture in World War One Prison Camps (Literary Digest, 1917)
1917, Prisoners of War, The Literary Digest

High Culture in World War One Prison Camps
(Literary Digest, 1917)

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This two page article is about P.O.W.s and the plays and concerts that they launched while in captivity; it is illustrated by numerous images of the prisoner/performers in costume.


If you are looking for an article that spells out how much more educated people used to be as compared to now, you might have found it.


Click here to read about the W.W. II Canadian POWs who collaborated with the Nazis.


Click here to read about American POWs during the Vietnam War.

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Duke and Duchess of Windsor 1953
1953, Duke of Windsor, The American Magazine

Family Politics
(American Magazine, 1953)

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Early next month the whole world will take time out from its atom bombs and cold wars and financial worries to re-live for a day all the jeweled delight of an old-fashioned fairy tale. This fairy tale will be all the more significant because it happens to be true… In short, a young queen will be crowned in London… But, amid all the glitter and pomp, the one man who would normally be expected to be the most important guest will not have a roll to play – The Duke of Windsor.

Actress Vivien Leigh Magazine Article | Vivien Leigh as SCARLET 1939
1939, Gone with the Wind Articles, Photoplay Magazine, Recent Articles

Vivien Leigh to Play Scarlet
(Photoplay Magazine, 1939)

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A short notice from a Hollywood fan magazine announcing that Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley: 1913 – 1967), an actress largely unknown to U.S. audiences, had been cast to play the roll of ‘Scarlet’. Accompanied by two breathtakingly beautiful color images of the actress, this short announcement outlines her genetic makeup, her previous marriage to Leigh Holman, and her thoughts concerning the upcoming roll.


Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith.

The Four Million Dollar Epic (Click Magazine, 1940)
1940, Click Magazine, Gone with the Wind Articles

The Four Million Dollar Epic
(Click Magazine, 1940)

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Many a movie of the deep South has come out of Hollywood studded with ‘you-alls’ and trailing jasmine blossoms. Never before, however, has any studio had Gone with the Wind, already the most heavily publicized picture of the era, which, at long last, makes its film debut…For over two and a half years casting difficulties had beset the producers of Gone With The Wind. Most difficult was the part of Scarlet O’hara, green-eyed vixen around whom the 1,307 page novel revolves. With every leading lady in Hollywood under consideration, the studios tested and re-tested Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins, and Paulette Goddard. Even the 56,000,000 people reported by the Gallup poll to be waiting to see the picture began to get tired…


Another great Hollywood movie from 1939 was The Grapes of Wrath – click here to read about it…

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On the Set of GWTW | GWTW Photoplay Magazine Article
1940, Gone with the Wind Articles, Photoplay Magazine

Behind the Scenes with Clark Gable…
(Photoplay Magazine, 1940)

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In this article from a 1940 fan magazine, Clark Gable puts to rest some disturbing concerns numerous fans had concerning the human affairs that existed on the set during the production of Gone with the Wind. He additionally expressed some measure of gratitude for having landed the juiciest role in Hollywood at that time:

‘Rhett’ is one of the greatest male characters ever created. I knew that. I’d read the entire book through six times, trying to get his moods. I’ve still got a copy in my dressing room and I still read it once in a while, because I know I’ll probably never get such a terrific role again. But what was worrying me, and still is was that from the moment I was cast as ‘Rhett Butler’ I started out with five million critics.

Gone with Wind Begins Shooting (Photoplay Magazine, 1939)
1939, Gone with the Wind Articles, Photoplay Magazine

Gone with Wind Begins Shooting
(Photoplay Magazine, 1939)

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Jack Wade, one of the many Hollywood reporters for Photoplay, must have let loose a big girlish squeal when he got word from the Selznick-International man that he would not get bounced off the set of Gone with the Wind
if he were to swing by to take a look.

First of all, a report on Vivien Leigh…Hollywood already agreed that she’s the happiest choice any one could have made. Even swamp angels from deepest Dixie put their okay on her accent…Clark Gable looks like the real Big-Man-From-the-South. In a black frock coat, starched bosom and ruffles, he makes a menacing, impressive Rhett, and he’s a little pleased about it, too.

The Visual Accuracy of the 'Gone with the Wind' (Click Magazine, 1939)
1939, Click Magazine, Gone with the Wind Articles

The Visual Accuracy of the ‘Gone with the Wind’
(Click Magazine, 1939)

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This page from Click Magazine contrasts three Civil War photographs by Matthew Brady (1822 – 1896) with three production stills snapped on the sets of Gone with the Wind. The editors refused to weigh-in on the slowly building case regarding Hollywood’s questionable abilities to portray historic events with any degree of accuracy, preferring instead to praise the filmmakers as to how carefully they checked details.


The Matthew Brady images provided on the attached page only serves to condemn the otherwise flawless work of Gone with the Wind costume designer Walter Plunkett (1902 – 1982) who historians and reënactors have slandered through the years for failing to fully grasp the look of the era.

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