Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

The Nazis took this act as a pretext to stage a nationwide pogrom known as Kristallnacht.

Strasser (" the most able of the leading Nazis " of this period ) took the " socialist " component of National Socialism far more seriously than did Hitler and other members of the Bavarian leadership of the party.

As the Nazis took power in Germany, Poles and Jews were discriminated, determined to be subhuman and eventually subjected to genocide.

When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish community in Kolberg comprised 200 people, and the antisemitic repression by Germany's ruling party led several of them to flee the country.

It was the first official denunciation of Nazism made by any major organization and resulted in persecution of the Church by the infuriated Nazis who closed all the participating presses and " took numerous vindictive measures against the Church, including staging a long series of immorality trials of the Catholic clergy.

During WWII the Jewish Savoye family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the house and used it for storage.

In 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, Jung took part in restructuring of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy ( Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie ), a German-based professional body with an international membership.

The SD became more powerful after the Nazis took control of Germany and the SS started infiltrating all leading positions of the security apparatus of the Reich.

Remarque and Zambone divorced in 1930, but fled together to his home in Porto Ronco, Switzerland in 1933 when the Nazis took over Germany ; in May 1933, his novel All Quiet on the Western Front was burned in one of the first of the Nazi book burnings and it became clear that neither Remarque nor Zambona could return to Germany.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

After the Nazis took power in Germany, opposition politicians were persecuted and newspapers were banned.

During World War II, the Nazis took over the camp and turned it into a deportation camp.

" In 1933, when the Nazis took power, they undertook a systematic process of barring Jews from artistic life.

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

Because the Nazis deliberately took ' ownership ' of Wagner for their own propaganda purposes, it does not follow logically that one should interpret the composer's writings only in the context of Nazi policies.

As exiles, the Habsburg family took the lead in resisting the Nazis in Austria, but this foundered because of opposition between monarchists and socialists.

After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art ; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned Marc as an entarteter Künstler ( degenerate artist ), and ordered that approximately 130 of his works be taken from exhibit in German museums.

" Others have disputed this view and emphasize the risks that Niemöller took while opposing the Nazis.

When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, Zweig was one of many Jews who immediately went into voluntary exile.

In 1939, as the Nazis took over Prague, Brod and his wife Elsa Taussig fled to Palestine.

The seizure of power and the " Gleichschaltung " ( forcing into line ) by the Nazis in 1933 also took place in Speyer.

In Germany, the Nazis used social Darwinism to promote their racialist concept of the German nation as part of the Aryan race and the need for the Aryan race to be victorious in what the Nazis believed was a race struggle — an ongoing competition and conflict between races.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The Autobahn concept did not originate with the Nazis but had its beginnings in the efforts of a private consortium, the HaFraBa ( Verein zur Vorbereitung der Autostraße Hansestädte-Frankfurt-Basel ), founded in 1926 for the purpose of building a high-speed highway between Northern Germany and Basel, in Switzerland.

After the Nazis came to power they abolished the concept of a federal republic and all the states, and re-organized Germany into Gaue with appointed leadership.

* bodenständiger Kapitalismus -- ' home country-orientated capitalism ' or ' sedentary capitalism ' – productive capitalism, i. e., industry ( as opposed to unproductive ' nomadic ' capitalism, i. e., financial speculation, believed by the Nazis to be dominated by the Jews ) was a Nazi economic concept.

The most well known super race concept is the Nazi idea that proposed to create an Aryan Super Race by applying eugenics to what the Nazis referred to as the Nordic Aryan master race.

For example the concept was appropriated by some Nazis such as Alfred Bäumler, who may have drawn influence from it or used it to justify their expansive quest for power and world domination.

The Nazis also used the concept of degeneration in art, banning " degenerate " ( entartete ) art and music: see degenerate art.

Göring was a relative of numerous descendants of the Eberle / Eberlin in Switzerland and Germany, among them German Counts Zeppelin, including aviation pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin ; German nationalistic art historian Hermann Grimm ( author of concept of the German hero as a mover of history that was embraced by the Nazis ); the Swiss historian of art and cultural, political and social thinker Jacob Burckhardt ; Swiss diplomat, historian and President of International Red Cross Carl J. Burckhardt ; the Merck family, the owners of the German pharmaceutical giant Merck ; major German Catholic writer and poet Gertrud von Le Fort.

* Article 4 assures the Holy See of full freedom to communicate with the German clergy and for the German bishops to communicate with the laity “ in all matters of their pastoral office .” The words of qualification in this clause would later be interpreted by the Nazis in its most narrow meaning to limit the Church communications to worship and ritual only.

In particularly strong – perhaps even hyperbolic — terms, the OHA is denounced for using a " blood quantum " to define eligibility status, a requirement that is " disturbingly reminiscent of the ' Blood Protection ' and ' Citizenship ' laws adopted as part of the infamous Nuremberg laws " of the Nazis, which attempted to limit the vote of those with Jewish blood ( 28 ).

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4, 000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.

The opera was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and did not have a significant production until the 1960s.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.

The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.

In 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was built east of the city by the Nazis and was operated until 1945.

After the war he wrote on Jewish spirituality ; most of his family had been murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania.

Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had found their way back to Norway through purchase by collectors ( the other eleven were never recovered ), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.

Dollfuss was assassinated on July 25, 1934, by ten Austrian Nazis ( Paul Hudl, Franz Holzweber, Otto Planetta and others ) of Regiment 89 who entered the Chancellery building and shot him in an attempted coup d ' état, the July Putsch.

In Carinthia, a large contingent of northern German Nazis tried to seize power but were subdued by the Italian units nearby.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

* 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

The Nazis, led by Hitler and the German war hero Erich Ludendorff, attempted a " March on Berlin " modeled upon the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923.

Capra's job was to head a special section on morale in order to explain to soldiers " why the hell they're in uniform ", writes Capra, and were not " propaganda " films like those created by the Nazis and Japan.