Word: censorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Authentic reports seeping through the Nazi censorship gave many angles of what is happening to some Jews in concentration camps. At one camp they are compelled to sign the following statement: "As a Jew, I regard myself as a guilty accomplice of the Jew Grynszpan, who murdered Third Secretary vom Rath." Each morning they were put through the following catechism, varied according to their profession or trade: "What were you?" Answer: "I was a doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack...
...German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...
...Germany, the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter warned small neighboring nations they would be treated as enemies in any future war unless they eliminated anti-German comment from their press. This was aimed especially at Switzerland, where an unofficial foreign news censorship committee exists. Recently the Belgian Press Association spunkily rejected a suggestion from the Belgian Foreign Office that they set up a similar committee...
...play contest sponsored by the Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...
...candidate for Governor showed a greater willingness to answer questions than Lynch liked, particularly on the Harvard scene with its implications of "Bourbonism," and the latter several times imposed censorship. Saltonstall is an Overseer of the University...