Evidence: | '"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph": "People went mad in the shelters. ..." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Jul 1943 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Vera Brittain |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Dec 1893 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | National-Zeitung |
Genre: | newspaper reports |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | 1943 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28412 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Experience | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 325 | |
Additional comments: | I have not quoted the complete quotations, as quoted by Vera Brittain, from these newspapers. |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 325, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28412, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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