Word: aryanized
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...Jews and forced to leave Vienna very soon. Therefore I appeal in our great trouble to you--an Aryan--and ask you whether you, perhaps through your esteemed parents or another noble-minded personality, would be so good as to provide us with an affidavit." Thus writes Catherine Spiegler, a typical oppressed German Jewess, to Samuel Burrit Lacy, Jr. '41, who claims she is a perfect stranger...
...these were mostly Germans who simply grabbed what they could after Jewish shop fronts had been smashed by the "mobs." Some mobsters tossed Jewish goods out of smashed windows to passersby with guffaws and cries of: "Here are some cheap Christmas presents. Get yours early!" Not all German Aryans countenanced this depravity. Said an Aryan Berlin housewife despondently as she watched Aryan children making off with the contents of a Jewish shop: "So that is how they teach our children to steal...
...reputation of being uncultured, brash and boorish. On the theory that this reputation is a liability, the producers agreed that one means of combatting anti-Semitism would be to render themselves less vulnerable to unfavorable publicity, by abstaining from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization along somewhat similar lines, for which Chicago Adman Albert Davis...
Because their humor is "non-Aryan" and therefore not officially funny, Rome's Fascist newspaper Il Tevere urged all good Italians to boycott films showing Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers and the Marx Brothers. Making a big muscle, Il Tevere added: "The Marx Brothers are only a big bluff...
...last week, more than 40% of Germany's traveling salesmen, 110,000 out of 265,000, were Jews. Despite Nazi antiSemitism, many large German firms have preferred to retain Jewish salesmen because, although officially scorned and often individually spat upon, they have managed to outsell Aryan competitors, Last week the Government decided that after October 1 all traveling salesmen in Germany must be Aryans, decreed that the licenses of all Jewish sales representatives in the Reich, which expire this week, cannot be renewed. These licenses correspond to the labor permits issued by the Labor Front, which every employe, German...