1926
Joseph Stalin
"
I want a new, invincible human being"
2/21/38
FBI
A "fan" writes a love letter to Clark Gable
3/10/38
Warner Brothers
"
The horror of that place..
."
1939
Sigmund Freud
"
I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck
..."
1939
Time
Time Magazine Covers: 1939
1939
Life
Life Magazine Covers: 1939
1939
Ann Sheridan Magazine Covers 1939
1939
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilamanjaro
1/30/39
Adolph Hitler
"
A prophecy
" (recorded speech)
4/9/39
Marian Amderson
Lincoln Memorial concert
.
Listen
.
May 1939
James Joyce
"
Anna Liva
" (
Finnegans Wake
excert read aloud by Joyce)
1939
The Guardian
(UK)
1939 news stories
4/24/39
[Unknown]
A Nazi Course in Propaganda Techniques
5/16/39
British Foreign Office
British White Paper of 1939
Summer 1939
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Superman Comic Book #1
7/1939
George Orwell
"
nothing is likely to save us.
.."
8/14/39
Soviet Russia Today
, 8. 5
An Open Letter Calling for the Greater Unity of Anti-Fascist Forces
8/23/39
V. Molotov
J. Von Ribbentrop
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty
Sept. 1939
Soviet Russia Today
, 8. 5
The Meaning of the Non-Aggression Pact
8/30/39
Gallup Poll
"
About how long do you think the present war will last
?"
Sept. 1939
Gallop Poll
"
Should we declare war and send our army and navy abroad to fight Germany
?"
9/4/39
Franklin
Roosevelt
Fireside Chat 14: "America will not intervene
"
9/39
W.H. Auden
"
September 1, 1939
"
9/21/39
WJVS AM
Washington, DC
Dawn to dusk radio broadcasts
Fall 1939
Clement Greenberg
"Avant-Garde and Kitsch"
11/15/39
Paul Robson
"A Ballad for Americans"
1939
Herblock
Herblock cartoons: 1939
6/18/40
Winston Churchill
"
Their finest hour
"
11/28/40
Fritz Hippler
Der Ewige Jude "The Eternal Jew
"
2/1/41
FBI (Confidential)
"
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League is a communist front organization
"
9/11/41
Charles Lindbergh
"
The British, the Jewish, and the Administration
..."
6/4/42
William Wyler
Preacher's speech
from
Mrs. Miniver
(voice track & selected frames)