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1960, Adolf Hitler, Quick Magazine

Hitler’s Secret Love
(Quick Magazine, 1960)

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Attached is a sensational article that appeared in a super market tabloid some fifteen years after Adolf and Eva saw fit to call it a day:

Was Adolf Hitler the great lover who had to cover up his escapades because of affairs of state? Or was the great Adolf a full-blown homosexual who made his appointments to the upper hierarchy of Nazidom based on the pervert talents of the Master Race. Read about the latest revelation that throws the rumor factories and historians into a cocked hat and may prove Adolph’s manliness.


The article was written anonymously.

Big Trouble in Little Cuba (Collier's Magazine, 1945)
1945, Collier's Magazine, Cuba

Big Trouble in Little Cuba
(Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

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The attached article is about the controversial Cuban President Ramón Grau San Martin (1887 – 1969) and his struggle with the radical elements within Cuba. This COLLIER’S MAGAZINE piece will give you an understanding that the roots of communism on that Caribbean island have a longer history than you might have supposed; when it first appeared on the newsstands in 1945, Fidel Castro (1926 – 1916) was a still a law student.


In 2011 Castro confessed in an interview with an American reporter that the Cuban model [of Communism] had not been successful.

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The Military Police in France (American Legion Weekly, 1923)
1923, The American Legion Weekly, World War One

The Military Police in France
(American Legion Weekly, 1923)

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A genuinely funny reminiscence written by an anonymous Doughboy recalling his days as an M.P. in war-torn France during the First World War:

Now that it is all over I wonder what did I gain from my experiences as an M.P. in the great Army of Newton Baker’s Best?…Watching the dawn coming rosily up over snow-clad barracks roofs and rows of tents; informing careless privates, sergeants, lieutenants and even majors to ‘button that there button’; listening to the dull bang-slamming of artillery barrages on crossroads; jotting down the names of high-spirited young men found in cafés at the wrong hours -such things aren’t of much lasting value.


Click here to read an article about the sexually-transmitted diseases among the American Army of W.W. I – and the M.P.s in particular…

The Cadet Nurse Corps (Think Magazine, 1946)
1946, Think Magazine, Women (WWII)

The Cadet Nurse Corps
(Think Magazine, 1946)

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Youngest and largest of the the women’s uniformed services, the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, has made nursing history in the brief span of it’s existence…the corps includes more than 112,000 women between 17 and 35 who enrolled to help meet the emergency demand for nursing service and at the same time prepare themselves for a post-war profession.

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'The Dictator and his Woman'' (Coronet Magazine, 1956)
1956, Coronet Magazine, Interviews: 1912 - 1960

‘The Dictator and his Woman”
(Coronet Magazine, 1956)

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The article attached herein is oddly titled The Dictator and his Woman; a more apt title would have been The Woman and her Dictator

From the start, the relationship between Peron and Evita was a curious and contradictory liason. It is true that she was still a struggling actress when Peron met her, but she had achieved a considerable reputation for spreading her favors around with a sharp eye to the future,


Read about Fascist Argentina…


Read about the post-war Nazi refuge that was Argentina…

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A British Tommy to the Mother of his Victim (True Stories of the Great War, 1918)
1918, Letters, True Stories of the Great War

A British Tommy to the Mother of his Victim
(True Stories of the Great War, 1918)

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One of the most moving letters included in the the 1918 book True Stories of the Great War
was the pair that we have attached herein: a British soldier, heartily sickened by war, composed a letter to the mother of the German he had killed, pleading for her forgiveness. The mother wrote back and her response was unpredictable.
This exchange was first published in a Geneva newspaper.


Click here to read about compassion on the battlefield.

German and Italian P.o.W.s in America (United States News, 1945)
1945, POWs, The United States News

German and Italian P.o.W.s in America
(United States News, 1945)

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By the end of 1944 the P.o.W. population within the U.S. stood somewhere in the neighborhood of 340,000 and was growing at a rate between 25,000 to 30,000 each month. The vast majority of them (300,000) were from the German Army and 51,000 were Italians:

There are reports that these prisoners often are pampered, that they are getting cigarettes when American civilians cannot get them, that they are being served in their camps by American soldiers, that they are often not working at a time when war workers are scarce. The general complaint is that the 46,000 American prisoners in Germany are not faring as well as 3000,000 Germans in this country.


Read about the escaped German POWs who the FBI never found…

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Story of the Battle of the Bulge 1944 | Battle of the Bulge Newsweek Magazine | Battle of the Bulge Witness Account
1945, Battle of the Bulge, Newsweek

‘Nuts”
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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Here is the NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE account of the defense of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945). The article opens with a thorough explanation of General McAuliffe’s famous response to the German officers who came in search of an American surrender.

The Defense of Bastogne (Combat Studies Group, 1986)
1986, Battle of the Bulge, The U.S. Army Combat Studies Group

The Defense of Bastogne
(Combat Studies Group, 1986)

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Attached is the concluding essay from a U.S. Army report written in 1986 concerning the spirited defense that was offered by the 101st Airborne Divisionstyle=border:none at the Battle of the Bulge.

At Bastogne, well-coordinated combined arms teams defeated uncoordinated armored and infantry forces committed to an unrealistic plan.


Another article about this battle can be read by clicking here…

Princess Elizabeth Comes of Age (Click Magazine, 1944)
1944, Click Magazine, Elizabeth II Articles

Princess Elizabeth Comes of Age
(Click Magazine, 1944)

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The attached article was about the Spring of 1944 and why it was such an exciting season for Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England (b. 1926): the twenty-first of April marked her eighteenth birthday and her country was entering the last year of their bloodiest war, while the princess herself held two positions that she took quite seriously: Patrol Leader of the Buckingham Palace Girlguides, as well as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. There were also times when she was required to join her father when he was in conference with his ministers.


Also addressed in these pages was the royal concern as to who was suitable to be her mate; a list of names was provided.

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The News from Talkie Town (Theatre Magazine, 1931)
1931, Talkies 1930, Theatre Magazine

The News from Talkie Town
(Theatre Magazine, 1931)

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To a regular cinema-goer in the era of silent films, attendance at the motion-picture playhouse today is a continuously disturbing experience…The discovery that the shadowy images of the screen could be made articulate was as fruitful for exploitation to the captains of the cinema industry as was the realization that women would wear long skirts to the couturiers. …Paramount alone has already announced 243 releases for next season, double the number issued this year, and other companies are following suit.

Click here to read articles about Marilyn Monroe.

The New York Social Register (America, 1932)
1932, America Magazine, Old New York History

The New York Social Register
(America, 1932)

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Who could write an accurate assessment of social New York better than a celebrated Broadway playwright? Exactly; that is why we were so happy to find this essay by Clare Boothe Luce (1903 – 1987) on just that very topic:

The New York Social Register for 1931 contained about thirty-five thousand names, an increase of fifteen thousand over the Social Register of 1914; and the fourteen social registers of the largest American cities contained more than one hundred thousand names – an increase of over fifty thousand names during the same length of time.


These figures are particularly remarkable when one considers that the social register of exactly one hundred years ago, Longworth’s New York Directory, boasted exactly eighteen names.


From Amazon: Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Lucestyle=border:none

The Missing Star: Jane Russell (Pic Magazine, 1943)
1943, Jane Russell, Pic Magazine

The Missing Star: Jane Russell
(Pic Magazine, 1943)

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Those cheeky, ill-informed editors at PIC MAGAZINE impertinently protested that the Howard Hughes’ movie The Outlaw should have been in the theaters ages ago – failing all the while to recognize that the film had been released a week prior to the publication of their article.


But they made up for it by providing their readers with six seldom-seen cheesecake pictures of the star, Jane Russell.

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