Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossfire. A terrifying melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...
Crossfire. A terrifying melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...
Outbreaks of anti-Semitism were in the news. A Northampton magistrate heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor and Jew...
...whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...
Crossfire. A terrifying melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...