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Nelly Sachs, 1910. Nelly Sachs (German pronunciation: [ˈnɛliː zaks] ⓘ; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright.Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with Nazi philosophy, as a member of the officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich.
This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic .
Yellow star labeled Juif, the French term for Jew, that was worn during the Nazi occupation of France. The yellow badge, also known as the yellow patch, the Jewish badge, or the yellow star (German: Judenstern, lit. ' Jew's star '), was an accessory that Jews were required to wear in certain non-Jewish societies throughout history.
Kristallnacht, 1940–42 [7] Charlotte Salomon, gouache from Life? or Theater?, 1940–42 [8]. Charlotte Salomon came from a prosperous Berlin family. Her father, Albert Salomon was a surgeon; [9] her mother, Franziska (Grünwald), sensitive and troubled, committed suicide when Charlotte was eight or nine, though she was led to believe her mother died from influenza.
Etty Hillesum wrote An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum. Edgar Hilsenrath wrote Night, which describes life and survival in a Jewish ghetto in Ukraine, and The Nazi and the Barber, which describes the story from the point of view of a SS mass murderer, who later assumes a Jewish identity and escapes to Israel.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
In his introduction to the play, Eckart wrote "[It is by] German nature, which means, in the broader sense, the capability of self-sacrifice itself, that the world will heal, and find its way back to the pure divine, but only after a bloody war of annihilation against the united army of the 'trolls'; in other words, against the Midgard Serpent ...