Word: joesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Julius Lips started work on The Savage Hits Back* in 1929 in Cologne, where he was the curator-in-chief of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. After studying savages for years it occurred to him that the savages were also capable of studying him, whereupon he set out to collect all the native representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven...
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